Partner, Asset management & Investment Funds
Dublin
+353 1 489 6590
Highly regarded
English
Investment funds
James Phelan is a Partner in our Asset Management & Investment Funds Department, specialising in advising asset managers in relation to the structuring, establishment, regulation, distribution and ongoing management of a wide variety of investment funds in both the UCITS and alternative arenas. He is expert in the UCITS regulatory regime and includes a number of significant UCITS platforms (including UCITS ETFs) among his clients. James also has significant experience in steering clients safely through a variety of regulatory reviews and regulator-driven themed inspections and has advised fund directors extensively in relation to corporate governance standards and in relation to the Central Bank of Ireland's fitness and probity regime. James is a member of various key industry working groups, including the Irish Funds UCITS Regulation and Innovation Working Group.