Erik Gotfredsen

Erik Gotfredsen is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Wakefield Quin Limited. He is internationally recognised by Chambers Global and The Legal 500 as a leading corporate lawyer in Bermuda. Erik’s practice spans a range of sophisticated finance and capital market transactions with 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 management and regulatory compliance. He leads an active general corporate practice, advising on the establishment of companies in Bermuda, and is routinely instructed by international banks, financial institutions, public companies, private equity firms and onshore law firms.

Erik worked in the Corporate Department of Conyers Dill & Pearman in Bermuda from 2008 to 2014. Prior to arriving in Bermuda in 2008, Erik worked in the Real Estate Finance Group at Morrison & Foerster LLP in Tokyo, Japan and, before relocating to Tokyo, worked in the Corporate and Commercial Group at DLA Piper (Canada) LLP in Vancouver.

Erik is admitted as a solicitor in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada; England and Wales; and Bermuda. He is an active member of Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA) Bermuda.