Adam Bathgate
Partner
Bermuda
Adam leads our Finance Group in Bermuda and advises clients on a wide range of finance transactions involving Bermuda companies and partnerships.
He regularly advises asset managers, public and private companies, and financial institutions on various transactions including:
Adam also has experience of equity capital raises (including preference share financings) and of forming and maintaining investment funds, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds.
- Insurance-based financing (including lending to insurance-focused funds, regulatory capital raises and loans to collateralised reinsurance structures)
- Fund finance
- Note and bond issuances
- Securitisations and collateralised loan obligations
- Leveraged and acquisition finance
- Syndicated lending
- Asset finance
- General secured lending
- Financial restructuring
Adam also has experience of equity capital raises (including preference share financings) and of forming and maintaining investment funds, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds.
Adam is wonderful to work with. He's senior, yet still involved day to day. He's sufficiently hands-on that he knows everything that's going on, but he also lets his team run with things.
Experience and recent work
Adam relocated to Bermuda in 2018. Before that he spent almost eight years in the Cayman Islands working at two leading international offshore firms. Previous to this, he was with Clifford Chance, initially in London and later in Munich. This is where he started his career, focusing on leveraged and acquisition finance, and financial restructuring.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Bermuda
- Cayman Islands (not practising)
- England and Wales (not practising)
Education:
- MA, University of Oxford, UK
- BA (first class), University of Oxford, UK
- Legal practice course, Nottingham Law School, UK
2025 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking, Finance and Capital Markets
2024 Chambers Global - Band 3 - Corporate & Finance
2024 IFLR1000 - Highly Regarded
2023 IFLR1000 - Highly Regarded
2023 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
2022 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking, Finance & Capital Markets - ‘I worked with Adam Bathgate and Nathalie West. I would recommend both in a heartbeat. Extremely pleasant to work with, knowledgeable and solution-oriented.’
2021 IFLR1000 - Highly Regarded
2021 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
2020 IFLR1000 - Highly Regarded
2020 IFLR1000 - Rising Star
2019 IFLR1000 - Rising Star
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