Expertise
Gearoid is a partner in the firm’s Finance & Capital Markets Department. Gearoid advises international banks, financial institutions, corporates, asset managers, investment funds and investors on a range of securitisation, structured finance and asset-based lending transactions. He also advises banks, financial institutions, asset managers, originators and sponsors on a broad range of fund finance transactions.
Gearoid has extensive experience advising across a wide array of asset classes, including on transactions collateralised by trade receivables, corporate loans (including direct lending, SME loans and CLOs), auto loans, consumer loans, NPLs, residential mortgage loans and commercial mortgage loans. In the fund finance space, Gearoid has experience advising on NAV facilities and capital call facilities extended to private market funds (including direct lending and private credit funds) with investments across the EU, US and APAC.
Prior to rejoining Matheson in 2025, Gearoid worked in the Securitisation and Structured Finance practice of Latham & Watkin LLP’s London office (which included a secondment to a leading European investment bank).
- Advising a US bank on their private warehouse securitisations of portfolios of auto-loan receivables
- Advising a Polish leasing company on the private securitisation of a portfolio of leasing receivables
- Advising a EU investment bank on the establishment of a platform in which their clients receive exposure to distressed EU assets using TRSs
- Advising a US hedge fund on the establishment of an investment vehicle to invest in distressed EU credits
- Advising US asset managers on the establishment of a variety of MTN and repackaging programmes
- Advising a US alternative asset manager on the structuring and establishment of its flagship senior direct lending loan fund
- Advising a US asset manager on the financing aspects of its successful public takeover of a UK based investment trust, including the securitisation of the trust’s portfolio of credit assets post-acquisition
- Advising Barclays Bank on its €275 million warehouse securitization of SME loans originated by Teylor Capital in Germany
- Advising Lowell, a leading European non-performing debt purchaser, in connection with its inaugural public securitisation “Wolf III”
- Advising Lowell on their first securitisation of consumer NPLs in Denmark (which was considered the first NPL securitisation in the Nordics as well as one of the first securitisation transactions in Denmark)
- Advising a global alternative investment fund manager on its establishment of a UK originator of development loans and bridging loans (and the associated back leverage)
- Advising a global asset manager on the structuring of a private securitisation of UK bridging loans originated by a UK based originator
- Advising a UK bank (as senior lender) on the private securitisation of loans backed by properties to be used as single family residences in the UK
- Advising an asset manager on joint venture co-investment agreement and the establishment of a platform to purchase and service portfolios of consumer NPLs
- Advising a US investment bank on all aspects of its business of acquiring portfolios of distressed consumer receivables
- Advising a global manager on a NAV facility provided by a US investment bank to its flagship European direct lending fund
- Advising a global asset manager on a syndicated subscription facility arranged by an international investment bank
- Advising banks and financial institutions on their asset backed and capital call facilities extended to private market funds managed by global investment managers
- Advising US asset managers on the EU and UK regulatory aspects of their fund financing transactions
University Collect Dublin (BBL)
Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland
Qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales