Philip Lovegrove

Philip is a partner in the Asset Management Department and has been with Matheson for eighteen years. He specialises in advising on the establishment and operation of investment funds in Ireland.

Philip’s experience includes advising leading international financial institutions and asset management companies on structuring and offering fund products in Ireland and particularly in relation to exchange traded funds, innovative and complex products authorised as UCITS and emerging markets products. Philip is the vice chair of the Irish Funds ETF Working Group and the Irish representative on the EFAMA ETF Working Group. He specialises in advising managers on bringing innovative ETFs to market, including smart beta, actively managed, multi asset and emerging market funds and, more generally, on complex funds which are structured using the full range of flexibilities available under the UCITS regime. He has also advised extensively on the establishment of hedge funds and alternative investment products and in relation to listing Irish and foreign domiciled investment funds on Euronext Dublin.