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. · Wakefield Quin
About
Erik Gotfredsen is Director, Senior Counsel and 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. His practice focuses on finance and capital markets — including debt and equity offerings, banking and financial services, structured and project finance, secured lending, mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations — and he advises on joint ventures, partnerships, asset and fund management, regulatory compliance and the establishment of companies in Bermuda for banks, financial institutions, public companies and private equity clients.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- LL.M., Kyushu University (Major in International Business Law), Japan, 1999
- LL.B. (J.D.), University of Victoria, Canada, 1998
- B.Com., University of Victoria, Canada, 1995
Admissions
- Solicitor — British Columbia
- Solicitor — England and Wales
- Solicitor — Ontario
- Solicitor — Bermuda
- Member — Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association of Bermuda