Dara Harrington

Financial & Corporate 2018 - 

“Dara is knowledgeable, accessible and commercial. He is also friendly and a pleasure to work with.”

Dara has acted in a wide range of transactions advising fund promoters, investment managers, financial institutions, service providers and investors on the establishment and operation of all types of investment funds. Dara is a former member of the Council of the Irish Funds Industry Association and is a former chair of the Association’s AIF Regulation and AIFMD Reform Working Group.

Advising:

• US investment manager on establishment of UCITS multi-manager platform;
• Large scale and boutique fund managers on applications for authorisation as AIFMs by the Central Bank of Ireland;
• Various global asset management and private equity firms on the use of Irish QIAIF structures to invest in real estate assets and loan portfolios;
• US investment manager on cross-border merger involving closed-ended investment fund admitted to listing on the London Stock Exchange;
• German insurance group/asset manager on rationalisation of European fund range and manager structure and related cross-border merger transactions.

• Financial services regulatory
• Hedge funds
• Investment funds
• Private equity 
• Private equity funds

• Financial services
• Investment management

• Law Society of Ireland

• LLB (Ling. Germ.), Trinity College Dublin, 1999
• LLM, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 2000
• Dip. Financial Services Law and Regulation, London City University, 2006
• Admitted as a solicitor, (Ireland) 2003
• Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practising), 2010