Walkers

Praised for being ‘highly responsive and professional,’ the team at Walkers is a significant player in the banking and finance market, handling high-profile matters, and is increasingly involved in blue-chip investment work and provides regulatory advice to global corporations. Leading the corporate and finance team, Jonathan Betts has over 25 years’ experience, advising large corporates, funds and insurers on governance and complex transactional issues, with a focus on M&A in the insurance space. Adam Bathgate leads the finance practice, specialising in transactions involving Bermuda companies and partnerships, including leveraged and acquisition financings, fund and asset issues, securitisation work and CLOs. Other key contacts at the firm include newly promoted partner Nathalie West, who has experience advising on a wide range of transactional matters and financings domestically and overseas, while senior associate Cathryn Minors assists with all aspects of corporate and commercial law; she joined the practice from an in-house role in 2022.