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Biography

Mark is Chair of McCann FitzGerald LLP and a partner in the firm’s Investment Management Group. He advises a wide variety of clients who are engaged in the promotion and management of all types of investment funds including UCITS funds, hedge funds and all types of private fund strategies, including private equity, infrastructure, credit and real estate funds. Mark also advises UCITS management companies and AIFMs on their duties and obligations under fund management company legislation and regulation. He works with many of the largest fund managers in the international and domestic funds market, as well as with large institutional and seed investors, such as pension schemes and government or state bodies and also provides advice on investment business regulation and financial services law. Mark is heavily involved in many Irish Funds working groups and is an active participant in industry submissions made to the Central Bank regarding product development and evolution. He was a leading member of the Industry legislative working group (and chaired the regulatory working group) which was involved in the overhaul of Ireland’s limited partnership regime. He is also a regular speaker at IBA conferences and is a former officer of the IBA’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee. Mark is regarded as a leading lawyer in the Irish funds market, having been ranked a Band 1 lawyer by all major legal directories for the past number of years.