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Micheál Buckley

Matheson LLP

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Position: Senior Associate
Rating:
  • Rising star
Practice Areas:
Capital markets : Debt
Capital markets : Structured finance and securitisation
Jurisdictions:
Biography

Micheál is a senior associate working in our Finance and Capital Markets Department. Micheál advises international companies and financial institutions, asset managers, private equity firms, investment banks, arrangers, issuers and trustees on aspects of debt capital markets and structured finance transactions. Micheál’s experience covers a range of debt finance work, including peer-to-peer and marketplace lending platforms, life settlement transactions, collateralised loan obligation transactions (CLOs), corporate bond issuances, loan origination structures, securitisations, MTN and repackaging programmes and other forms of structured finance products.

Micheál has experience in advising leading international private equity firms and financial services providers as Irish legal counsel to Irish incorporated special purpose vehicles which employ private debt issuances to finance portfolio investments in multiple jurisdictions.

Recent matter/case highlights

§  several leading international private equity firms and financial services providers as Irish legal counsel to Irish incorporated special purpose vehicles which employ private debt issuances to finance portfolio investments in multiple jurisdictions;

§  leading international investment banks on their Irish MTN and debt issuance platforms;

§  leading international groups on the legal aspects of the acquisition of several high profile loan portfolios and the financing thereof; and

§  on CLO transactions arranged by US and European entities in connection with the warehouse phase and the subsequent issuance and placement of    CLO notes, upon termination of warehousing phase.     

Address:
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