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Key contacts
Director & CEO: Erik Gotfredsen
Director & Chairman: Nicholas Hoskins
Director: Ian Stone
Director: Roderick Forrest
Director & Head of Property: Michelle Stone
Director & Head of Litigation: Richard Horseman
Director: Johann Oosthuizen
Director: E. Scott Swainson
Quick facts
Number of lawyers

18

Number of partners

8

Network memberships

Bermuda Bar Association, Law Society of England and Wales, Law Society of Scotland (non-practicing), Law Society of Ireland, Notaries Society of England and Wales, Bermuda Young Lawyers Group, Employment and Labour Tribunal Consumer Affairs Board for Bermuda, Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association of Bermuda, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), International Compliance Association, Regulatory Compliance Association, Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda, Institute of Chartered Bankers, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Bermuda, Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) Asset Management Working Group

Languages

English; lawyers conversational in French, German, Turkish, Afrikaans

Key practice areas
Financial and corporate
Firm overview

Wakefield Quin is a leading Bermuda law firm. Our core service boasting around twenty lawyers. Since the merger of two long-standing Bermuda firms on January 1, 2001, Wakefield Quin has worked to develop a successful legacy of advising both local and international clients in the areas of banking and finance, corporate and commercial, property, restructuring and insolvency, funds and investment services, trusts, private client and litigation.

Our legal professionals are dedicated to providing our clients with timely, sophisticated and solution-driven legal advice. We distinguish ourselves not only by the quality of our work but by our approach to clients. We are entrepreneurial and innovative. We take time to understand our clients’ needs and the high service standards that our clients require.

Our group is strengthened with a licensed corporate services provider business offering secretarial, registered office, and director services; a regulated trust manager including private client services; and a licensed fund administration company, providing fund and private equity accounting, registered transfer agent, and management/investor services.

Key transactional practices
  • Banking
  • Financial restructuring
  • Investment funds
  • M&A
  • Real estate finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity, Securitisation
  • CLO/CDO
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private equity
  • Project finance
  • Hedge funds
  • Private equity funds
  • Project development
Address:
Victoria Place
31 Victoria Street
Hamilton HM10
Tel:+1 441 494 4000 Fax:+1 441 494 4111 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.wq.bm/
Rankings published in 2026
Financial and corporate
Tier 3
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Tier 1

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1 practice area
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Tier 2

Cox Hallett Wilkinson
1 practice area
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MJM
1 practice area
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Tier 3

BeesMont Law
1 practice area
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Wakefield Quin
1 practice area
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Notable

Trott & Duncan
1 practice area
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Headquartered in Hamilton, Wakefield Quin is a notable Bermudan firm. Nicholas Hoskins serves as managing director.

 

Focusses / specialisms

The firm is proficient in financial and corporate work. It serves both local and international clients in financing, M&A and restructuring matters. It is experienced in advising investment funds.

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Deal Highlights
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Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
Carlyle Aviation Partners Ltd. - M&A
2021-03-29
Wakefield Quin
Ireland
M&A
Jemimah Fearnside
Carlyle Aviation Partners Ltd.
Buyer
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