Funds Foreign Registration

The Dillon Eustace dedicated Fund Registrations Unit provides a complete foreign registration service for Irish domiciled UCITS and AIFs. Our personalised, effective and responsive service covers registration of funds in markets across Europe and beyond.

We provide ongoing support services focused on helping clients maintain registration through compliance with all local regulatory and legal requirements and obligations. Based in the Dillon Eustace Dublin office, our fund registration specialists work closely with legal experts in our market-leading Asset Management and Investment Funds team.

We meet our clients’ needs for funds registration wherever they choose to market. Our expertise covers registration of UCITS and AIFs in EU countries for cross-border marketing under a passport. We also work with AIFM clients seeking to market AIFs in EU Member States without a passport, subject to national private placement regimes. Our service extends to the registration of UCITS and AIFs in non-EU jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Switzerland.

We act as the single point of contact for each registration, liaising with all local service providers, including local counsel where necessary, the Central Bank of Ireland and local regulators. Clients benefit from a dramatically reduced administrative burden associated with cross-border registrations – especially multi-jurisdiction registrations – and ongoing registration requirements.

Relevant Experience

• Acting as lead project manager in the registration of Irish domiciled UCITS in EEA states in accordance with the requirements of the UCITS Directive.

• Acting for Luxembourg UCITS marketing into Ireland under the UCITS marketing passport.

• Acting as lead project manager on behalf of various EU AIFMs (Irish and non-Irish) in the registration in EU member states of EU AIFs which they manage and propose to market with their passport in accordance with the requirements of the AIFM.

• Acting for non-EU AIFMs (who cannot market within the EU with a passport under the AIFM Directive) in the registration in EU member states of AIFs which they manage and propose to market in accordance with the applicable national private placement regimes in those member states.

• Acting in the registration of UCITS and AIFs outside the EU, including registrations in Chile, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong.

• Acting for UCITS and AIFs clients to ensure timely compliance with ongoing reporting requirements in all jurisdictions in which they are marketed.

• Maintaining accurate records of marketing data for board oversight.

• Co-ordinating projects with local counsel and agents where required.