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The firm

WQ is a leading Bermuda law firm that has earned an international reputation for providing high-calibre legal services. WQ is dedicated to providing clients with timely, sophisticated and solution-driven legal advice and is known for delivering a personalised and efficient legal service, geared to working to agreed timetables and budgets. WQ achieves a high standard of professionalism by listening to client needs and understanding client requirements. We recognise the vital importance of establishing close and continuing business relationships with our clients and throughout our firm’s history, have forged valuable networks with other legal professionals in the US, UK, Europe, and Asia.

WQ offers an all-inclusive service to clients, utilising the firm’s associated services companies, including WQ International Ltd. and M Q Services Ltd., which provides a full range of corporate, administrative and registered office and agent services; Harbour Financial Services Limited, which provides fund administration, investor relation, financial accounting, and independent director services; and Church Bay Trust Co. Ltd., which provides trust and private client services.

Directors of the firm are actively involved in many professional organisations, including the Bermuda Bar Association, Restructuring and Insolvency Specialist Association (RISA), and the International Bar Association (IBA).

Areas of practice

Corporate and commercial WQ’s lawyers have extensive experience advising leading financial institutions, public companies, funds, private equity firms and large private companies on a broad range of corporate and financial transactions.

WQ has expertise advising on:

(a) primary (IPO) and secondary equity and debt offerings of private and public companies;

(b) banking and structured finance;

(c) investment and private equity funds;

(d) insurance and reinsurance;

(e) cross-border mergers, acquisitions, disposals and re-domestications;

(f) shipping and aviation;

(g) infrastructure projects;

(h) trusts and private client;

(i) insolvency and restructuring;

(j) regulation and compliance; and

(k) intellectual property and e-commerce.

Litigation WQ litigators regularly appear in leading decisions before the Bermuda courts. WQ advises on international commercial disputes, insurance and reinsurance matters, officer liability claims, shareholder disputes, trust/trustee disputes, employment and immigration matters and general family law.

Real estate WQ has one of the leading real estate practices in Bermuda. Our lawyers provide innovative and practical legal advice to a broad range of industry participants. We regularly act for lenders, developers and equity investors in all major real estate product areas, including office, commercial, industrial, multi-family and hospitality. WQ’s lawyers have extensive experience advising on the acquisition, development, management and disposal of real estate, including leases, sale-leasebacks, market standard and complex financings, and restructurings.

Private client WQ regularly acts for trustees, beneficiaries and settlors, as well as protectors and enforcers, and has considerable experience advising international corporate clients on insurance trusts, special purpose trusts, pension trusts, unit trusts and employee benefit trusts. WQ also advises charities, foundations, families and high-net-worth individuals on investment structures, international estate planning and private trust company arrangements.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Ms Debby Correia	Debby Correia is an Associate and divides her time within the Litigation,…	View Profile
	Ms Katrina Dickson	Katrina is a Property Attorney & Barrister	View Profile
	Mr Alex Evans	Alex is an Associate in the Corporate Department and his practice includes…	View Profile
	Ms Jemima Fearnside	Jemima (known informally as Jemma) is a Senior Counsel in the Corporate…	View Profile
	Mr Roderick Forrest	Rod Forrest is a Director and Senior Counsel in the Corporate Department and…	View Profile
	Mr Erik Gotfredsen	Erik Gotfredsen is a Shareholder and Senior Counsel of Wakefield Quin Limited…	View Profile
	Mr Wendell Hollis	Senior Counsel	View Profile
	Mr Richard Horseman	Richard Horseman is a Director and Senior Counsel in the Litigation Department…	View Profile
	Mr Nicholas Hoskins	Nicholas Hoskins is a Senior Counsel and Managing Director of Wakefield Quin…	View Profile
	Ms Larina Kenny	Larina is an Associate in the Corporate Department and her areas of…	View Profile
	Mr Johann Oosthuizen	Johann Oosthuizen joined Wakefield Quin Limited in January 2014 as an Associate…	View Profile
	Mr Jai Pachai	Jai Pachai is a Senior Counsel and Director of Wakefield Quin Limited…	View Profile
	Mr Ian Stone	Ian Stone is a Director and Senior Counsel in the Corporate Department…	View Profile
	Mrs Michelle Stone	Michelle Stone is Head of the Property Department at Wakefield Quin Limited. Michelle…	View Profile
	Ms Cristen Suess	Cristen Suess is an Associate in the Litigation Department and her practice…	View Profile
	Mr Scott Swainson	Scott Swainson is a Senior Counsel in the Property Department of Wakefield…	View Profile
	Ms Celia Tuzo	Associate	View Profile

Comparative Guides

• Bermuda: Lending & Secured Finance

  Published: March 2022

  Authors: Erik L. Gotfredsen Larina Kenny

  This country-specific Q&A provides an overview to Lending & Secured Finance laws and regulations that may occur in Bermuda.