Firm:	A&L Goodbody LLP
Position:	Partner
Address:	25 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 H104
Phone:	+353 1 649 2422
Email:	koshaughnessy@algoodbody.com
Personal URL:	https://www.algoodbody.com/our-people/kerill-oshaughnessy

Special Areas:

Kerill O'Shaughnessy is a partner in the Asset Management & Investment Funds group. He acts for a range of funds, promoters and service providers and has extensive experience in advising on the establishment and operation of regulated and unregulated Irish investment funds including liquid retail funds (UCITS, ETFs, Retail Investor AIFs), illiquid professional investor funds (PE / VC / debt funds structured as limited partnerships, real estate funds), fund of funds, master feeder structures and segregated mandates.

Kerill has advised on the authorisation and ongoing operation of a number of UCITS management companies, AIFMs and management companies established to manage both UCITS and AIFs (Super Mancos) including those with MiFID top-up permissions.

He also advises a number of fund service providers including third party management companies, fund administrators and depositaries operating in the Irish market, and has advised on a number of significant recent M&A transactions in the asset management sector in Ireland.

Qualifications:

Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland
Bachelor of Business and Legal Studies, University College Dublin

Memberships:

International Bar Association - Officer of the Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee.

Current member of Irish Funds industry association ELTIF group.

Previously sat on a number of Irish Funds industry association working groups including on Limited Partnership Legislative Reform, Private Equity, Real Estate and Real Assets.

Regular speaker at conferences on asset management and investment fund related topics.

Past lecturer on the Law Society of Ireland's Finance Law Diploma programme.

Representative for asset management and investment funds on Ireland for Law, the Government of Ireland's international legal services strategy body established by the Minister for Justice to promote Irish Law and Irish Legal Services to the international business community.