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  • Budget 2025 - Tax Highlights Ireland

    Budget 2025 announced on 1 October 2024 included a substantial "cost-of-living" package including many one-off payments, as well as outlining a framework to direct substantial tax revenues towards housing, energy, water and transport infrastructure. The need to maintain Ireland's competitiveness in the face of intensifying competition for foreign direct investment was acknowledged, with tax

  • Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report - Asset Management and Investment Funds January - March 2024

    Welcome to the January – March 2024 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for Asset Management and Investment Funds. This report covers key developments during the quarter, such as: UCITS & AIFMD developments, including the publication of changes in cross-border notifications under AIFMD and the UCITS Directive...

  • Transposition of Credit Servicers Directive in Ireland – Overview

    On 29 December 2023, the Minister for Finance signed the European Union (Credit Servicers and Credit Purchasers) Regulations 2023 (the "Regulations") into law, thereby transposing the Directive on credit servicers and credit purchasers (Directive (EU) 2021/2167) (the "CSD") into Irish law, with effect from 30 December 2023. In keeping with the approach previously indicated by the Department...

  • Central Bank's Regulatory and Supervisory Outlook Report 2004 Key trends, risks and priorities facing funds and the asset management sector

    On 29 February 2024, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published a new Regulatory & Supervisory Outlook Report outlining the key trends and risks which the Central Bank has identified as moulding the financial sector operating landscape and its consequent regulatory and supervisory priorities for the next two years (2024/25) (the "Report"). The report was accompanied by a letter to

  • Ireland | Chambers 2024 Global Practice Guide on Securitisation

    1. Specific Financial Asset Types - 1.1 Common Financial Assets - A wide range of asset classes have been securitised by Irish special purpose entities (SPEs): residential mortgages; commercial mortgages; auto loans; consumer loans; SME loans; corporate loans; shipping assets; aircraft lease rentals; trade, credit card and hire purchase receivables; commodities; royalties; carbon assets;...

  • Irish Asset Management & Investment Funds ESG Newsletter - September / October 2023

    Regulation around ESG investment in Ireland is evolving rapidly with developments from the Central Bank of Ireland, European Commission and ESMA building an increasingly sophisticated regulatory backdrop. Our summary of the key recent developments includes: Central Bank of Ireland updates, including communication of the latest regulatory expectations on sustainability disclosures...

  • Budget 2024 – Tax Highlights Ireland

    10 October 2023 – Ireland's Budget 2024 was presented in the context of a positive economic performance for Ireland — full employment, budget surpluses, rising population and a falling national debt — against a backdrop of global economic and geopolitical uncertainty. The result was the announcement of a 'spend and save' budget that included a significant package of public expenditure measures...

  • Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report - Asset Management and Investment Funds April – June 2023

    In this quarter's edition of the legal and regulatory report, we include a number of key outputs from ESMA, including its updates to Q&As on the application of the AIFMD and the UCITS Directive (outlined at sections 1.2 and 2.2 of the report) and its final report following the completion of its common supervisory action outlining its supervisory expectations on asset valuation rules (4.6(e)).

  • Ireland’s Individual Accountability Framework (“IAF”) – What You Need to Know

    Introduction - The Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Act 2023 (the “Act”) was signed into law on 9 March 2023. The Act amends several existing pieces of legislation2 and is amongst the most significant pieces of legislation impacting the powers of the Central Bank of Ireland (“Central Bank”) in recent years. The key objectives of the Act are to improve the management of risk

  • Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report - Asset Management and Investment Funds January to March 2023

    Welcome to the January – March 2023 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for asset management and investment funds. This report covers key dates and developments during the quarter under the following headings: UCITS & AIFMD developments including the latest ESMA Q&As; Central Bank developments including its: Industry Letter on Costs and Fees - ...

  • Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report - Asset Management and Investment Funds October to December 2022

    Welcome to the October – December 2022 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for asset management and investment funds. This report covers key developments during the quarter under the following headings: UCITS & AIFMD developments; Central Bank developments; as well as other legal and regulatory developments, including ESG related updates. Please see...

  • Chambers Global Aviation Finance & Leasing Guide 2022: Ireland

    1.1.1 Taxes/Duties Payable Upon Execution of the Sales Agreement VAT Whether there will be any VAT payable on the sale of an aircraft is determined by its physical location at the point of sale. If the aircraft is physically located in Ireland at the time, the place of supply for Irish VAT purposes will be Ireland. As a result, the seller will be liable for any Irish VAT chargeable on the supply,

  • Ireland Update: Updates on SFDR Level 2

    On 4 October 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland published a notice of intention with process clarifications for UCITS and AIFs pre-contractual documentation updates ahead of the implementation of the SFDR Level 2 requirements applying from 1 January 2023. The Central Bank’s intention to make a fast-track filing process available for prospectus updates had been flagged in advance by the...

  • Budget 2023 – Tax Highlights

    Last year's Budget was presented as setting a course for a journey to a post-pandemic Ireland in 2022. Few could have expected the global economic challenges that were awaiting, including the war in Ukraine, rising inflation and a global energy crisis. Set against this backdrop, Ireland's Budget 2023 was presented as a "Cost of Living Budget" to support individuals, families and businesses to...

  • End of Court Year Case Digest: Irish Insolvency & Restructuring Judgments

    As another Irish Court year will soon commence, now is an opportune time to look back at some of the more interesting insolvency and restructuring judgments to have been delivered in the Superior Courts during the last 12 months. The judgments explored below will prove of relevance and importance to practitioners and clients navigating distressed corporates and assets over the coming weeks...

  • Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2022

    The Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2022 (the “2022 Act”) was commenced on 16 May 2022. The introduction of the 2022 Act ensures that providers and servicers of hire purchase products including personal contract plans (PCP), consumer hire, and a broader range of credit, will now need to be authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland (the “CBI”).

  • Central Bank Publishes Outsourcing Register - Submission Requirements

    The Central Bank of Ireland has published guidance notes and submission templates on the new outsourcing registers that regulated financial services providers are expected to establish and maintain. For any entities that are required to submit registry information to the Central Bank, details of outsourcing arrangements in place as of 31 December 2021 must be submitted via the online...

  • Central Bank of Ireland - Anti-Money Laundering Bulletin for the Funds Sector

    Having recently conducted a number of anti-money laundering, counter financing of terrorism and financial sanctions (“AML/CFT/FS”) supervisory engagements with Funds and Fund Management Companies (“Firms”), the Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) has published a bulletin (the “Bulletin”) which details its findings and expectations across the following key areas: Corporate Governance; AML/CFT/FS

  • Updates to the Central Bank’s Pre-Submission Process

    On 1 July 2022, the Central Bank provided an update relating to the pre-submission process it has in place for certain Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Funds (“QIAIFs”). Going forward this process is only required where it is proposed that a QIAIF will invest in: (i) Irish property assets; or (ii) crypto assets. Please see full Publication below for more information.

  • Establishing a Business Entity in Ireland (Updated)

    I. Introduction - As a common law jurisdiction, Ireland’s legal system is similar to that of the US and the UK and businesses can be carried on in Ireland in several different ways, including as sole traders, partnerships, or companies. Companies - A company is a body formed and registered under the Companies Act 2014, which has legal personality separate and distinct from its shareholders....

  • Irish DPC gets go ahead in latest chapter of the saga of Max Schrems and Facebook

    On 14 May the Irish High Court handed down its judgment in the judicial review case brought by Facebook Ireland Ltd (FBI) against the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), finding substantially in favour of the DPC.

  • Stamp duty and affordable housing charges

    The Irish government has increased the rate of stamp duty payable on the purchase of residential units (houses and duplexes), where 10 or more such units are acquired by one party (or by one party and a "connected party") over a 12-month period, to 10% from the current rate of 1% on the first €1 million (and 2% on the value in excess of €1 million). In the event that the 10 units are acquired in...

  • EU-U.S. Data Transfers Under Fresh Spotlight Following Irish DPC Ruling

    Today saw a key ruling by the Irish High Court which could have wide ranging implications in relation to a range of data use, targeted advertising and data transfers between Europe and the United States. The Irish data protection enforcer, the DPC, had issued a Preliminary Draft Decision (PDD) raising various concerns over the lack of privacy rights of EU citizens when their personal data is

  • Republic of Labour Law - Irish HR Updates in March

    This week in the Republic of Labour Law, we discuss an upcoming change to Parent’s Leave. Currently, Parent’s Leave entitles each parent to two weeks’ leave during the first year of a child’s life, or in the case of adoption, within one year of the placement of the child with the family.

  • MarkIt to Market® - February 2021: Watching the Pot™

    The Green, Green Grass of Home - Medical cannabis access in Ireland took another step forward last month when Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, introduced funding and eased the ways for patients to get access to it.

  • Republic of Labour Law – Irish HR Updates (UPDATED)

    Welcome to our February edition of Republic of Labour Law, a monthly newsletter in which we distil the most important Irish legal and HR updates from the last month in 500 words or less.

  • 2021 Venture Capital Guide - Ireland

    World Law Group member firms recently collaborated on a Global Venture Capital Guide that covers more than 30 jurisdictions on investment approval processes, typical investment sectors and investment structures on Venture Capital deals (and more!).

  • Fund Finance – Positive Developments for Sponsors and Investors under Ireland’s Investment Limited Partnership 2.0 Regime

    Why is this topic suddenly of interest? Irish Investment Limited Partnerships (“ILPs”) have been around since the introduction of the Investment Limited Partnership Act in 1994 (the “1994 Act”). Due to certain requirements imposed under the 1994 Act, they have seldom been used – there were only six in existence as of January 2021 based upon statistics published by the Central Bank of Ireland (“CB

  • Republic of Labour Law – Irish HR Updates in January

    Welcome to a very special January edition of Republic of Labour Law, a monthly newsletter in which we distil the most important Irish legal and HR updates from the last month in 500 words or less.

  • Republic of Labour Law – Irish HR Updates (UPDATED )

    This week in the Republic of Labour Law, we look at the employment law winners and losers from 2020. In January, Brexit was the headline. In December, Brexit is the headline once more. There is a grim symmetry to this year’s news cycle which was largely filled with Covid.

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