By Donnacha O'Connor & Sean Murray

Private equity firms may need to use a wide variety of legal structures and domiciles to conduct their operations efficiently. Ireland is well known as a fund domicile, and though it is perhaps better known as a domicile for UCITS funds and hedge funds, it is home to a growing number of private equity funds. It has been home to a funds industry for over 20 years and hosts or services the funds of over 850 international sponsors currently across all asset classes representing close to €2 trillion in assets.

DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said plans by the Bank of Ireland Plc and other stricken lenders to make junior debt holders share the cost of recapitalizing the banks were in line with the government's aim of "appropriate" burden sharing.

Ireland’s banking system and its wider economy has attracted a lot of bad press, raising questions about how its recently thriving asset management and fund servicing industry will be affected.

The article 'UCITS Evolution: Plain Vanilla to Alternatives' by Derbhil O'Riordan was first published in LatAm Fund Manager, MENA Fund Manager and Asia Fund Manager

If you would like to know more on this please email Derbhil O'Riordan

Conor Houlihan quoted in Bloomberg News ''Irelands NAMA Loses McKillen Appeal on Loan Transfer" If you would like to know more on this please email conor.houlihan@dilloneustace.ie

This article was published on www.hrri.ie. Please contact John Doyle if you would like more information

by John O'Riordan

This article was first published in Accounting and Business Ireland - January 2011

By Brian Kelliher

This article was published in The ETF Radar Magazine 2010 - 3rd quarter issue.

By Andrew Bates

This article was published in the Global Funds Ireland - Investor Services Journal june 2010

Ireland Chapter by Kieran Cowhey, Andrew Lawless and Tom Carney

"Play by the rules or suffer the effects" Sunday Business Post July 19th 2009 Tom Carney and John Doyle