Bermuda

Firm overview

Wakefield Quin is a leading Bermuda law firm. Our core service boasting around twenty lawyers. Since the merger of two long-standing Bermuda firms on January 1, 2001, Wakefield Quin has worked to develop a successful legacy of advising both local and international clients in the areas of banking and finance, corporate and commercial, property, restructuring and insolvency, funds and investment services, trusts, private client and litigation.

Our legal professionals are dedicated to providing our clients with timely, sophisticated and solution-driven legal advice. We distinguish ourselves not only by the quality of our work but by our approach to clients. We are entrepreneurial and innovative. We take time to understand our clients’ needs and the high service standards that our clients require.

Our group is strengthened with a licensed corporate services provider business offering secretarial, registered office, and director services; a regulated trust manager including private client services; and a licensed fund administration company, providing fund and private equity accounting, registered transfer agent, and management/investor services.

Firm overview

Cox Hallett Wilkinson Limited (“CHW”) is one of Bermuda’s leading commercial law firms and provides an extensive range of legal services to a diverse local and international clientele, focusing primarily on corporate and commercial, litigation and dispute resolution, private client, estate planning, real estate and intellectual property related matters in a practical, cost effective and timely manner.  Our business approach is to provide a high standard of professional advice delivered by a core team of attorneys and to develop close working and, in many cases, long-standing relationships with our clients and overseas counsel around the globe.  

Its affiliated company, Coson Corporate Services Limited (“Coson”), a licensed corporate service provider regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, provides corporate administration services to a variety of local and exempted companies, including those in the insurance, reinsurance, mutual funds, investment holdings, international trade, shipping and aviation industries. Coson also offers a full range of administrative services to local and exempted partnerships and LLCs established in Bermuda.

CHW is also affiliated with State House Trust Company Limited, a licensed trust company regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, providing trustee and related private client services.

Meritas

CHW is a member of the Meritas international law firm network, a global alliance of more than 183 independent law firms spanning over 86 countries.  Meritas members provide high quality legal services worldwide and work together to provide clients with a local legal partner with in depth international resources.  All Meritas members must consistently meet quality standards and a stringent code of ethics and are required to participate in ongoing recertification and client satisfaction evaluations.