David Lawless

NAME: David Lawless

TITLE: Head of Taxation

PRACTICE AREA: Taxation

EDUCATION: Dublin City University and the Institute of Taxation in Ireland.

EMAIL: david.lawless@dilloneustace.ie

PROFILE: David joined Dillon Eustace in 2004 to establish the firm's taxation department having spent the previous 17 years in PricewaterhouseCoopers where he became a tax partner in 1996. He has advised on all taxation aspects of financial services including structured finance transactions, investment management, capital markets, real estate, private equity, banking, treasury and reinsurance. He has written and spoken extensively on such topics and has participated in many public/private tax committees in Ireland to make Ireland an attractive tax location. He is a member of the tax committees of the Irish Funds Industry Association, the Alternative Investment Management Association, the Irish Securitisation Forum and the Law Society of Ireland.

REPRESENTATIVE ACTIONS: 

• Irish tax counsel to a private equity group in respect of the one of the largest ever bank acquisitions in Japan.
• Irish tax counsel to a large European Bank in respect of a very significant CDO portfolio reconstruction.
• Irish tax counsel to a significant Irish private wealth group in structuring its carried interest in a US real estate fund.
• Irish tax counsel to a Japanese Bank using an Irish platform to acquire German non-performing and sub-performing loans.
• Irish tax counsel to a US group establishing an aircraft leasing operation in Ireland.