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Aoife O'Sullivan
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+44(0)20 7220 5966 |
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+44(0)20 7220 5951 |
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Aoife has extensive experience in corporate and asset finance and commercial law. She spent four years in the corporate finance department at Clifford Chance LLP in London where she advised both nationally and internationally on financings, securitisations, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, listings, commercial contracts, and joint ventures. She then joined a leading offshore firm in the Cayman Islands where she advised on structuring and implementing local and international securitisations, asset financings, mutual fund and unit trust schemes, establishing complex corporate structures with worldwide tax effective outcomes, registration of products, shipping and aircraft registration, and compliance with offshore laws and regulations.
Aoife also advises clients in aircraft finance and regulatory issues including acquisitions and disposals, financings, airline start-ups, licensing applications and ancillary issues.
Additionallly, Aoife provides advice on all aspects of private equity including transactional MBO's, venture capital investments, start-ups, early stage financings, strategic minority interests, restructurings, exit strategies, debt finance and fund establishment and structuring.
Career:
- Attorney-at-Law, Hunter & Hunter, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, 2002-2003.
- Associate, Clifford Chance LLP, London, 1998-2002.
- Trainee Solicitor, PJ O'Driscoll & Sons, Ireland, 1994-1998.
Education:
- Solicitor, admitted in England and Wales, 1998.
- Admitted in Ireland, 1997.
- Admitted to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, 2002.
- LL.M. (Hons) in Advanced Business Law, University College Cork, Ireland, 1996.
- B.C.L. (Hons - top ten student) University College Cork, Ireland, 1994.
Special Award:
University College Cork, Ireland - scholarship for masters degree.
Teaching and Lecturing:
Tutor in Contract Law, University College Cork, Ireland.
Languages:
Conversational French and Spanish.
Interests:
Aoife is a keen swimmer and cyclist and competes regularly in triathlons, both in the UK and abroad. She is a qualified rescue scuba-diver with medic first aid. Other interests include photography, theatre, travel, languages and literature.
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