Liz Grace is a partner in Matheson’s Asset Management Group. She specialises in EU and Irish investment funds law. In 2007, she set up Matheson’s first dedicated knowledge development unit at practice level within the firm, which today has grown to service the 60 plus members of the Asset Management Group and its clients. In collaboration with Maynooth University, Liz has recently established Ireland’s first and only university-taught investment funds law course in order to make this area of law accessible to Irish third level students for the first time.

Putting experience into practice: Colm McGuire is a founding partner of McGuireDesmond, the Cork based law firm. Having worked as an associate at the Dublin and London offices of Matheson Ormsby Prentice McGuire established McGuireDesmond with Ciaran Desmond in 2000 with the experience of working during the early days of Matheson Ormsby Prentice's London office giving him the confidence to start a new practice.