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• Alter Domus appoints Global Head of of Funds Services
  Alter Domus, the independent provider of professional administration services for multinational corporations and alternative investment funds, has appointed Laurent Vanderweyen as Global Head of Fund Services and as CEO of its Luxembourg office.
• From restructuring to managing: Grant Thornton’s new managing partner
  Paul McCann, who is preparing to take on the role of managing partner of Grant Thornton in Ireland in the New Year, advises companies in financial difficulty, helping them to create turnaround strategies with his team of 60 people in Grant Thornton’s advisory department. In preparation for taking over as managing partner McCann spends his afternoons meeting with the heads of each department to discuss strategies and opportunities. While meeting with the firm’s regional offices in Limerick, Galway and Kildare allows him to tap local knowledge which is ‘invaluable’ for his work in local businesses and communities.
• A Day in the Life: a capital markets lawyer with a multi-jurisdiction platform
  Noeleen Ruddy is a senior counsel in the structured products and capital markets (SPCM) group in the Dublin office of international law firm Walkers. Noeleen advises international financial institutions, investment banks, managers, agents and trustees in relation to a wide range of structured finance transactions. More recently, in line with market trends, her focus has been on restructuring, life settlement structures, distressed debt deals and other bespoke structured product transactions.
• Deloitte Financial Reporting Brief: Europe - Are standards being enforced?
  With European affairs so much to the fore in all aspects of Irish business and life in general, it is of interest to consider how financial reporting is monitored throughout the European Economic Area says Brendan Sheridan.
• The proposed EU Financial Transactions Tax
  Last month's Tax Monitor discussed initial high level “proposals” unveiled by French President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel in August for a European financial transactions tax ('FTT'). Here BRIAN DALY outlines and comments on more detailed proposals unveiled in September and the negative impact they could have.
• The captive sector’s key regulatory challenges
  JOHN LARKIN analyses the three regulatory challenges currently facing the Irish captives industry - the proposed corporate governance code for captives, audit committee requirements and Solvency II
• The KPMG Tax Monitor: Tax environment as 2012 commences
  As the New Year commences Brian Daly takes stock of trends and developments, that are relevant for 2012, in the Irish and broader tax environment.
• EIOPA Consultation Paper on the Proposal for Guidelines on ORSA
  The release of EIOPA’s consultation paper on the ORSA process marks the first public consultation of the Solvency II Level 3 text.
• Northern Ireland gains LPO first mover advantage
   
• CHG calls for Special Assignment Relief Programme to be extended in Budget
  Ireland's aircraft leasing industry has urged the Government to take action in the upcoming 2012 Budget to improve the international competitiveness of its world leading aircraft leasing industry.The broad thrust of pre Budget submissions, channeled through Ireland's financial services consultative process, the Clearing House Group, a broad industry representative group, is that personal tax rates, particularly for high paid internationally mobile executives could be made more attractive, helping companies seeking to locate staff in the jurisdiction.
• Accountancy Survey 2011: Fee income stabilises for top 20 accountancy firms
  The recovery begins for Ireland’s top accountancy firms as fee incomes level out and stop the falls of the previous two years. The survey also shows the industry has increased employment by 5 per cent and recruitment will grow by 12.5 per cent in the year ahead compared with the year before
• Proposal to fund 'jobs initiative' by imposing a levy on private pension savings 'short-sighted, and unfair': Mercer
  “Both jobs and pension savings should be prioritised, rather than one at the expense of the other".
• Pillar III - Reporting Deadlines
  A significant amount of information is now available in relation to Pillar III requirements...
• Invesco fears further flight to Defined Contribution
  The new Defined Benefit (DB) Pension model for the National Pensions Framework won't work, Invesco says
• Matheson Ormsby Prentice expand in London and New York
   
• Yearbook 2011 & new Professional Services Guide launched
  He said that there could be optimism that Ireland's banking and financial difficulties will be overcome in the course of the coming five years, but said that the coming six months are going to be particularly challenging.
• Background to the Draft Directive on CCCTB Proposals published by the EU on March 16th
   
• Major legal analysis of the NAMA legislation released for publication
   
• Unisex premiums and benefits will apply across Europe from 21 December 2012
   
• Walkers Appoints Paul Farrell as Head of Investment Funds Group in Dublin
   
• UCITS IV will add new demands to fund promoters - with the requirement to maintain a Key Investor Information Document (KIID) from this summer onwards
   
• Towers Watson completes acquisition of EMB
   
• Milliman has published a briefing note on 'Risk Appetite' in response to the Regulator's requirements that firms construct their appetite for risk frameworks by June 30th
   
• Walkers forms Tax Group in Ireland as Dublin Office Expands
   
• The Constitutionality of The Irish 'Banking Stabilisation' legislation
   
• Progress in a number of areas relating to regulation of investment funds in Ireland