Richard Kelly
Richard Kelly is a partner in Ogier's Banking and Finance team and leads Ogier's Structured Finance and Capital Markets services in Ireland. Richard advises international and domestic clients on all aspects of debt capital markets transactions, with a specialisation in structured finance, CLO, ABS and other securitisation products as well as prime brokerage services (including derivatives, repos, securities lending and crypto trading).
Richard also advises on regulatory issues relating to the trading of financial instruments and digital assets. Richard has advised many of the world’s largest banks and asset managers on risk retention rules, market abuse regulations, derivatives, repurchase and reverse repurchase, securities lending and prime brokerage transactions (particularly the application of EMIR, SFTR, AIFMD, the Financial Collateral Directive and netting / set-off in Ireland). Richard has also acted for a number of leading crypto custodians in drafting their custody and trading documents for the European market.