Monday October 8 2012
News Source: Fund Regulation
Focus: General - Fund Regulation
Type: Third party articles
Country: Ireland
Dillon and Eustace have recently published a guide to qualifying investor funds in Ireland. The qualifying investor fund (QIF) structure is the structure used most frequently for:
- hedge funds;
- FoHFs;
- private equity funds;
- real estate funds;
- feeder structures;
The publication focuses on the following points:
- Regulatory categorisations;
- Investment and leverage restrictions with regard to direct investments, funds of hedge funds and feeder funds;
- Irish master feeder structure for multi-jurisdictional sales;
- The authorisation process;
- Operational issues;
- Available legal structures;
- Liquidity options;
- Prime brokerage;
- Single-manager and multi-manager funds;
- Taxation of Irish regulated collective investment funds;
- Use of trading subsidiaries/SPVs; and
- Irish Stock Exchange listing.
For a full copy of the report, please refer to the below link: