Financial Institutions
Financial institutions are operating in a rapidly changing environment. Geopolitical tensions, the deepening challenges associated with climate change, the pace of growth and innovation in digitalisation, and the fragmented global economic picture are all impacting on the way financial services firms are both operating and being regulated.
Governments and regulators have become much more proactive with a view to improving oversight, regulation and protection of the consumer. As a consequence, the regulatory landscape has fundamentally changed and operations, structure and location of regulated businesses are continuously being adapted in response to these developments.
At Matheson we believe that your professional advisers should give you a commercial advantage in dealing with these changes. We have worked extensively over many years with a broad range of the largest financial institutions and leading multinationals including banks, insurers, investment firms as well as Fintech and payment firms.
We continually look to use the breadth and depth of our experience to benefit our clients. In our view, dedicated teams with extensive industry sector knowledge offer the best value for clients.
Our Financial Institutions Group has lawyers with extensive industry experience, corporate transactional experience and regulatory knowledge who are solely focused on financial institutions.
Thought Leadership
Thought leadership is particularly important to the Financial Institutions Group as we believe it is as important to shape public policy as it is to advise on it. We regularly make formal and informal submissions to the Central Bank, Department of Finance and other State bodies. Group members regularly write, speak and organise seminars/webinars on topics that are important to our clients. We consistently update our clients on developments in the area of financial services through our much praised weekly subscription email the FIG Top 5 at 5. The FIG Top 5 at 5 highlights five of the previous weeks’ key legal and regulatory developments across Irish and EU law. To subscribe, please click here
Collaboration
At Matheson the financial services sector is the largest single sector of our practice. The Financial Institutions Group works with many of Matheson’s market leading teams including teams in Finance and Capital Markets, Asset Management and Investment Funds, Aviation Finance and Transportation, Structured Finance and Securitisation, Tax, Restructuring and Insolvency and Financial Services Litigation.
Experience Highlights
- Financial institutions on cross-border merger transactions in connection with their Brexit strategies.
- On the establishment of Irish banking, insurance and MIFID businesses.
- Promoters, managers and institutional investors on Irish tax aspects of both regulated and unregulated Irish investment funds.
- On the implementation of alternative investment strategies, including direct lending and royalty strategies.
- Multinational corporations on the Irish tax aspects of debt and equity capital raising transactions in Ireland.
- Irish financial institutions and international investment banks on the Irish tax aspects of providing syndicated financing facilities to multinational companies doing business in and from Ireland.
- Irish financial institutions, international investment banks, institutional investors and lessors on Irish tax aspects of asset financing and asset leasing transactions and on the establishment of Irish aircraft leasing platforms.
- Insurance companies on portfolio transfers and business sales.
- On a number of CDO and CLO transactions (synthetic and cash, managed and static) originated in the US, Europe and elsewhere arranged by US and European financial institutions.
- Investment banks in respect of their ABCP, MTN and repackaging programmes.
- Multinational corporations, investment managers and institutional investors on the tax aspects of Irish real estate investments.
- Brexit Deal – Key Outcomes from an Irish Customs and VAT Perspective
News and Insights
Fitness and Probity Handbook
Combining all the relevant legal instruments and Central Bank documents (which together make up the Regime), along with Matheson’s guidance.
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This guide summarises the applicable legal and regulatory requirements and includes practical checklists to test your firms' operational resilience.
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Anti-Money Laundering Toolkit
The AML Toolkit is designed to assist existing and newly impacted clients to navigate the changing AML legislation and its impacts.
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FIG Top 5 at 5
The FIG Top 5 at 5 highlights five of the previous weeks’ key legal and regulatory developments across Irish and EU law
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