Financial Services and Investment Funds

We offer practical, comercially focused financial services and investment funds advice to clients navigating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

Lawyers in the Philip Lee financial services and investment funds team are top tier legal experts, advising domestic and international financial services institutions including asset managers and investment funds. Operating in a highly specialised and ever-changing regulatory environment, clients include investment funds, fund service providers, investment firms, payment services firms, digital assets firms, private equity providers, alternative lenders, Irish banks, wholesale banks and investment banks. The team also advises organisations involved in insurance, corporate treasury, credit services firms, fintech and intermediaries.

We guide clients through the complex maze of regulation and compliance in the financial services sector and combine expert legal advice with insights into market practice and regulatory expectations. Our work ranges from establishing operations and regulated subsidiaries in Ireland to advice on interactions with the Central Bank of Ireland.  We also advise non-financial firms when their activities begin to interact with the regulatory perimeter.  

M&A activity in the sector continues to drive opportunities as organisations demand strong commercial and strategic advice on bespoke business and operating models.

Our financial services and investment funds team (collaborating with experts from across our finance, corporate transactions and M&A, regulatory, tax and real estate teams) advises across the full spectrum of activities in the financial services sector:

  • Acquisition finance
  • Asset finance
  • Asset management and funds
  • Blockchain and crypto assets
  • Capital market transactions
  • Establishment, regulatory authorisation and compliance
  • Corporate lending, restructuring and security
  • Global corporate restructuring
  • Payment services including electronic money issuance
  • Private equity
  • Project finance
  • Refinancing
  • Risk management
  • Tax

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Philip Lee really is an exceptional firm to be interacting with and would now be regarded as the ‘go to’ firm for us. Communication, responsiveness and a willingness to find a solution for all parties, sets Philip Lee apart from other firms. In an environment where personal relationships seem secondary, this is not the case with Philip Lee and if a partner doesn’t answer your call they will always, without fail, call you back before the need for a second call.
Legal 500, 2025
Strong and professional team, very responsive and competent, offering great customer service.
Legal 500, 2023
They have such a wide range of experience and clients that they are up to date on international developments in our industry.
Chambers Europe, 2021