Practice notes and precedents covering the creation and enforcement of bilateral facility agreements, security over different types of assets and guarantees in finance transactions.
Guidance on the authorisation and supervision of Irish financial institutions and the regulation of a wide range of areas include anti money laundering, fintech, payment services and e-money, credit, insurance and crowdfunding.
Transactional lawyers need to stay on top of market changes. We track developments of key industry bodies such as the LMA and ISDA as well as hot topics to help keep you updated.
Q&A guides provide jurisdiction specific information and overviews on financial services litigation, securities litigation and fintech.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a call for evidence (CfE) presenting a data-driven analysis of the evolution of...
Law360: Spirit Airlines is returning to bankruptcy court for a second Chapter 11 restructuring just 14 months after its previous reorganisation,...
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published version 2.0 of its Bond Data Taxonomy (BDT), a standardised, machine-readable...
Law360, London: HMRC cannot retain over £18 million in a withholding tax claimed by an Irish company on debt interest from collapsed bank Lehman...
Ireland—Banking & Financial Services analysis: It notes that at the European level, it covers the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...
What does this Practice Note cover?This Practice Note summarises the key provisions which are applicable to both the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement...
Real estate finance (REF) transactions are either investment finance transactions or development finance transactions, depending on whether the...
What is credit support?Credit support is a means of a party reducing its credit risk on its counterparty. Credit support arrangements are also known...
This guide sets out the requirements for executing simple contracts in various international jurisdictions. The table provides a quick-reference...
This Practice Note examines the application of the UK Travel Rule, which requires the collection, verification and sharing of information relating to...
These precedent execution clauses are for use by a partnership entering into a deed (rather than a simple contract). Two alternative execution clauses...
Using this Precedent DebentureThis is a precedent bilateral Debenture which can be used to take security over all of the assets of a company.This...
GeneralThis Precedent can be used for a partial release of security and is intended for use in relation to a bilateral debenture or mortgage document...
GeneralThis is a Precedent notice of default for use with an aircraft operating lease agreement where an event of default has occurred and is...
This Agreement is made on [insert date]PartiesCheck that the parties named in the contract are correct. If there is more than one company in a...
There has been ongoing debate regarding the scope of the definition of ‘ICT services’ under DORA, even in the final push towards the DORA...
Ireland—Insurance portfolio transfersScope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note provides guidance on an insurance portfolio transfer pursuant...
The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has just published its Regulatory & Supervisory Outlook Report 2025.As part of the new supervisory...
Ireland—Legal opinions—uses, scope and structureLegal opinions are invariably used in cross-border financing transactions. They are usually either a...
Ireland—Key features of debenturesDebentures are used in many types of financing where it is desirable to take security over all of the assets of a...
Ireland—GuaranteesGuarantees are typically used in banking transactions as a form of collateral for a debt. In such circumstances, they are a...
Corporate tax payments have continued to bolster the Irish budget despite international tax initiatives like the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
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Ireland—Regulation of payment services providersPayment service providers—the regulatory frameworkSI No 6/2018 EU (Payment Services) Regulations 2018...
Ireland—Regulation of crowdfunding in IrelandThis Practice Note discusses the regulation of crowdfunding in Ireland under Regulation (EU) 2020/1503...
Ireland—Releasing securityIntroductionTo deal with the discharge and release of security, it is necessary to consider:•the conditions to be satisfied...
Differences between Irish insurance and UK insurance lawThis Practice Note examines the key differences between Irish insurance law and UK insurance...
Ireland—Financial assistance in secured lending transactionsIntroductionSection 82 of the Companies Act 2014 (Ireland) (CA 2014 (IRL)) is a key...
AIB Group Plc announced €1.7bn worth of shareholder rewards, including a planned €700m cash dividend, after a 170% surge in profits for 2023.The...
The definition of ‘ICT services’ under DORA is intentionally broad, and encompasses digital and data services provided through ICT systems on an...
Ireland—Money laundering offences and regulationThis Practice Note looks at the principal money laundering offences in Ireland including the...
Metrics for law firm performanceHow does an in-house lawyer measure the performance of their external law firms? Paul Gilbert sets out some...
The EBA has published three sets of final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) and one set of final draft ITS relating to the authorisation as...
CA 2006, s 793 enables any public company (whether or not listed) to give notice (commonly referred to as a Section 793 notice) to any person whom it reasonably suspects to be or to have been during the previous three years interested in its shares to confirm or deny that fact give particulars of the interests concerned, and provide certain other information with respect to such interests. In the context of a listed company or an AIM company, the provisions should be read in conjunction with the disclosure obligations under DTR 5 of the DTRs and Rule 8 of the Takeover Code.
The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2018, SI 2018/440 amended FPR 2010 with effect from 4 June 2018, primarily introducing new provisions as to ‘fast-track’ and ‘standard’ procedures in relation to applications for a financial remedy. The changes apply only to proceedings issued on or after 4 June 2018. For details of proceedings to which the fast-track is applicable. All other financial remedy proceedings will be dealt with under the standard procedure.
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