Alan Keating

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About Alan Keating

Alan Keating is a partner in Matheson’s Finance and Capital Markets Department. Alan has been based in New York since 2011 and heads the firm’s New York office. Alan advises international companies and financial institutions, asset managers, private equity firms, hedge funds, investment banks, arrangers, issuers, rating agencies, trustees and investors on all aspects (including restructuring) of debt capital markets, securitisation (cross-border and domestic), direct lending / loan origination, fund finance and structured finance transactions. In particular, Alan advises on CLOs, CDOs, LPNs, NPLs, RMBS, CMBS, US life settlements, receivables and mortgage securitisations, ABS, ABCP, MTN and repackaging programmes, deposit and fund-linked structured products (including Shariah-compliant structures), cat bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS), high-yield and other debt offerings (both public and private). Alan has extensive experience of advising US based alternative asset managers on the structuring, establishment and capital-raising for funds (including the provision of debt facilities (NAV and sub-line) to such funds) implementing a wide range of investment strategies across a broad range of asset classes. Alan also advises clients on Irish prospectus, transparency, market abuse and securitisation law, and listing queries. Alan has acted on a number of high profile and market-first transactions involving peer-to-peer (P2P) and marketplace lending platforms, including Europe’s first marketplace lending securitisation. Alan is a qualified solicitor and a qualified tax consultant and is a member of the Law Society of Ireland and the Irish Tax Institute. Alan was previously seconded to the legal department of a large investment bank in London where he acted as in-house counsel to the Global Markets — Fixed Income trading desk. Alan is licensed as a Foreign Legal Consultant with the Supreme Court of the State of New York. For further information -