Ogier in Ireland welcomes structured finance expert Richard Kelly as partner

Ogier has welcomed structured finance and capital markets expert Richard Kelly to its Banking and Finance team in Ireland.

Ranked by both IFLR1000 and Legal 500, Richard advises international and domestic clients on all aspects of debt capital markets transactions, with a specialisation in structured finance, CLO, ABS and other securitisation products, as well as prime brokerage services (including derivatives, repos, securities lending and crypto trading). Richard also advises on regulatory issues relating to the trading of financial instruments and digital assets.

Richard is the current president of the EU and International Affairs Committee of the Law Society of Ireland and regularly chairs working groups of the Irish Debt Securities Association.

"We are delighted to welcome Richard to the partnership in Dublin. Richard brings a wealth of international and local expertise and market knowledge. He is a fantastic addition to our fast-growing banking, finance and debt capital markets teams," said practice partner John Hogan. 

Richard's appointment now brings Ogier's Dublin based leadership team to 15, with a total headcount of nearly one hundred employees in Ireland. In the last two years, Ogier has extended its legal services to the Irish market to include banking, debt capital markets and investment funds services, building on the firm's well-established corporate, real estate, dispute resolution, restructuring and employment practices.

In 2024 the firm was named, for the seventh year, as a Great Place to Work Ireland in the Best Small Workplace category. For more information visit www.ogier.com/ireland.