Wakefield Quin

Alex is an Associate in the Corporate Department and his practice includes all aspects of corporate and commercial law. Alex has experience advising a broad range of clients, from start-ups and entrepreneurs to multi-national corporations, in a wide variety of sectors.

Debby Correia is an Associate and divides her time within the Litigation, Private Client and Property Departments. Debby’s practice covers estate administration, debt recovery, enforcement of court orders, personal injury, medical negligence, Mental Health Act receiverships, liquidations, land licence immigration applications, fractional acquisitions of real estate, conveyances, mortgages, and sale and purchase transactions.

Erik Gotfredsen

Erik Gotfredsen is a Director, Senior Counsel and the Chief Executive Officer of Wakefield Quin Limited and has been internationally recognised by Chambers Global and The Legal 500 as one of Bermuda’s leading corporate lawyers. Erik’s practice spans a broad range of sophisticated finance and capital market transactions with an emphasis on debt and equity offerings, banking and financial services, structured and project finance, secured lending, mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations. Erik has significant experience advising on joint ventures, partnerships, asset and fund management and regulatory compliance. In addition, Erik has an active general corporate practice, including advising on the establishment of companies in Bermuda, and is routinely instructed by a large number of leading international banks, financial institutions, public companies, private equity firms and onshore law firms.

Ian Stone is a Director and Senior Counsel in the Corporate Department of Wakefield Quin Limited and has been with Wakefield Quin Limited since 2004. His areas of experience include IPO’s, public company and capital markets transactions, advising on offshore corporate and partnership structures, project financing, banking transactions, acquisitions and mergers, insurance and reinsurance law, group restructuring and general corporate work.

Jemima Fearnside

Jemima (known informally as Jemma) is a Senior Counsel in the Corporate Department at Wakefield Quin Limited and joined the firm in March 2012.

Johann Oosthuizen

Johann Oosthuizen joined Wakefield Quin Limited in January 2014 as an Associate in the Corporate Department. His areas of practice include corporate and commercial law specialising in mergers and acquisitions, general corporate transactional as well as commercial property matters. Johann has more than a decade of experience advising corporate and trust clients on a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters. This includes the area of corporate finance, where he represents developers, retailers and banks advising them on loan and related security transactions.

Katrina Dickson

Katrina is a Property Attorney & Barrister

Larina is an Associate in the Corporate Department and her areas of practice include acting on a wide range of banking and financial transactions for Irish and international financial and corporate institutions. She advises both lenders and borrowers on credit facilities and on security and enforcement issues. Larina also has extensive experience reviewing and advising on non-performing loan portfolios and has acted for purchasers, sellers and financiers of these assets.

Michelle Stone is Head of the Property Department at Wakefield Quin Limited. Michelle specialises in both commercial and residential property law, with particular emphasis on assisting property developers, local and non-Bermudian clients acquiring high end residential property and/or fractional interests in developments linked to hotels, bank security and dealing with the property requirements of the hotel sector.

Nicholas Hoskins

Nicholas Hoskins is a Senior Counsel and Managing Director of Wakefield Quin Limited. He works in the Corporate, Trusts and Financial Services Department practising in the areas of general corporate, commercial, transactional and Trusts as well as private client work.

Richard Horseman

Richard Horseman is a Director and Senior Counsel in the Litigation Department Richard practises both criminal and civil litigation and is an experienced trial lawyer. Richard has significant experience advising clients in the following areas: contract and commercial disputes, shareholder and employment disputes, judicial review and administrative law claims, human rights claims, personal injury claims including road traffic claims and conditions of employment claims, trust and estate/probate litigation and administration, and criminal litigation. With two decades of litigation experience, Richard has conducted several high profile cases including one of Bermuda's largest personal injury judgments, in 2016. Richard is Head of the firm’s estate administration practice, practising probate and trust law, and has considerable experience advising on estate planning.

Roderick Forrest

Rod Forrest is a Director and Senior Counsel in the Corporate Department and has been with Wakefield Quin Limited (and its predecessor firm M.L.H. Quin & Co.) since 1996. His areas of practice include investment funds, securities and capital markets, private equity structures, partnerships and banking as well as more general corporate transactional work and trusts. In his work in the area of investment funds Rod provides services to clients ranging from world leading hedge fund groups to single manager start-up funds. He is recommended for his work in a number of journals and publications, including Chambers & Partners and Practical Law Company.

Scott Swainson is a Senior Counsel in the Property Department of Wakefield Quin Limited. Scott regularly advises both local and non-Bermudian clients on sophisticated commercial and residential property transactions. Scott provides property-related advice to banks and other commercial lenders, as well as to hotel and condominium developers and investors.