Mina Dawood joins our Financial Services Team

PUBLISHED: 30th September 2021

LK Shields Solicitors LLP is delighted to welcome Mina Dawood to our Financial Services team as an associate solicitor.

Mina specialises in Financial Regulation and Investment Funds.  He advises clients on a wide range of legal and regulatory investment fund matters including the structuring, establishment, maintenance and operation of all types of funds including UCITS and AIFs. He also advises on fitness and probity compliance, AML and sustainable finance.

Mina also has experience assisting Fintech clients with licensing requirements and regulatory compliance to include MiFID II, PSD2 and the E-Money Regulations.

Our Financial Services Team provides sound technical and business-orientated advice and support to clients seeking to negotiate the increasingly diverse and dynamic world of financial services regulation.  They advise and assists a wide range of leading financial institutions and corporates on the following range of activities:

Investment Funds

Many of our clients are investment-management firms engaged in the promotion and management of investment funds.  We advise on the set up of fund structures investing in equities, bonds and other traditional traded securities, as well as more specialist areas including hedge funds and funds of hedge funds, property funds, private-equity funds and pension-fund products.
 

Regulatory Advice

We advise a wide range of domestic and international financial institutions, investment firms, stockbrokers, insurance companies on the legal and regulatory aspects of their business.  We have extensive experience in advising international investment firms on their establishment and activities in Ireland.
 

Inward Marketing of Foreign Investment Products

We regularly advise foreign investment managers in relation to the complex regulatory requirements which apply in this area.
 

Asset Finance

Our specialist lawyers have extensive expertise in a broad spectrum of asset-financing transactions, such as aviation finance and project finance.