Brian McDermott is Head of the A&L Goodbody Asset Management & Investment Funds Group. He has extensive experience in the structuring, establishment and authorisation of all types of investment funds including UCITS, AIFs and non-regulated funds. In addition to advising the promoters and investment managers of such funds, he advises fund investors, fund directors and fund service providers on relevant Irish law, regulation and market practice. Brian also advises on all aspects of the regulation of asset management and fund servicing activities in Ireland including the establishment and authorisation of investment managers, fund servicing operations and UCITS and AIF management companies.

Bar Admissions
Associate of the Institute of taxation in Ireland
Firm's representative in the Dublin Fund Industry Association.

Education
Brian holds a First Class Honours Bachelor of Civil Law Degree from UCD and a Master of Legal Studies in Comparative European and International Law (LLM) from the European University Institute in Florence.

Seminars/ Presentation
Brian McDermott is a regular participant in and chairman of conferences dedicated to the legal underpinnings of investment funds. He has travelled from Bermuda to London to share his knowledge, recently chairing a highly regarded conference in his adopted home city of Dublin.

Brian has published several articles on mutual funds and other financial services topics.

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