Clare Mannion
Senior Associate
Ireland
Clare Mannion is based in the Ireland office of Walkers where she is a Senior Associate in the firm's Finance and Capital Markets Group.
Clare's principal practice areas are capital markets, securitisations, distressed investment, finance and corporate restructuring.
In particular, she advises on Irish and EU legal and regulatory aspects of the establishment, financing, operation and management of Irish special purpose vehicles and other investment vehicles which acquire a broad range of asset classes (including loans, mortgages, receivables and distressed assets).
In particular, she advises on Irish and EU legal and regulatory aspects of the establishment, financing, operation and management of Irish special purpose vehicles and other investment vehicles which acquire a broad range of asset classes (including loans, mortgages, receivables and distressed assets).
Experience and recent work
Some of Clare's recent transactions include:
- Advising a leading global reinsurer in relation to the establishment of an Irish reinsurance vehicle in Ireland;
- Acting as issuer counsel in relation to European Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) transactions;
- Acting as lead counsel to a number of US hedge funds and private equity funds which invest in distressed, stressed, performing and non-performing European assets;
- Acting as issuer counsel in relation to commercial mortgage backed securitisations through Irish special purpose vehicles; and
- Regularly acts as issuer counsel advising on the restructuring of a number of stressed and defaulted securitisations.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Ireland
Education:
- BCorp. Law, NUI Galway
- LLM, NUI Galway;
- LLM (International and European Business Law), Trinity College Dublin.