Simmons & Simmons — Ireland

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About

The smartest business solutions come when we work together – international, but operating as one integrated team. Collaborative, agile and partner-led: that’s Simmons & Simmons. A law firm that challenges, creates new possibilities and offers opinion not just option. A law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, not for you. We focus on five highly regulated sectors (asset management and investment funds, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences and technology, media and telecommunications, energy, natural resources, infrastructure and construction). This is how we consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges.

Office locations

Dublin

Simmons & Simmons Fitzwilliam Hall Fitzwilliam Place Dublin Ireland

+35312661110

Practice areas

Asset ManagementInvestment FundsFinancial InstitutionsHealthcareLife SciencesTechnologyMediaTelecommunicationsEnergyNatural ResourcesInfrastructureConstruction

Lawyers in this office

James McKnight

James specialises in advising asset managers on the establishment and ongoing maintenance of investment vehicles. He has significant experience assisting clients with the establishment of a variety of fund types, ranging from broadly offered retail funds to private funds aimed at small groups of sophisticated investors and family offices, across every major asset class, liquid and illiquid, and also in respect of digital assets. James has advised in relation to the establishment of funds structured as companies, unit trusts, limited partnerships, common contractual funds, as well as umbrella fund structures and master feeder structures. He has advised in relation to the establishment of investment structures domiciled in a number of jurisdictions including Ireland, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and Hong Kong and has advised managers based in a variety of jurisdictions including the U.K, the U.S., Ireland, the E.U., Switzerland, Latin America, Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. · Asset Management