MJM’s Corporate & Finance team combines boutique agility with global insight, elevating your business to new horizons with confidence and clarity.

MJM Limited’s Corporate & Finance team stands at the forefront of Bermuda’s dynamic offshore market, delivering precise, innovative solutions for global businesses. With a reputation for excellence, our team expertly navigates complex corporate transactions, banking, and finance matters, including M&A, shipping finance and regulatory compliance. Our lawyers are particularly skilled at creating new structures for commercial growth, advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions and completing exchange-based listings, as well as advising boards and shareholders.

We understand that working in the offshore sector is unique and we are committed to providing customised solutions that meet the specific needs of our clients. Whether advising a multi-national company or a small owner-managed business, we have the technical knowledge and commercial acumen required to ensure that clients achieve their objectives and receive the legal support that they need to succeed.

MJM’s affiliated companies, Quorum and MJM Europe, also provide integrated company administration and fiduciary services, offering clients a seamless solution from incorporation through to ongoing regulatory and legislative compliance.

Representative Work

• Cross-Border M&A – advising on the Bermuda law aspects of multi-billion dollar multi-jurisdiction M&A transactions.
• Shipping Finance – regularly act for international clients on ship and aircraft financing transactions.
• Capital Markets – counsel to issuers and underwriters on Bermuda aspects of global equity offerings and bond issuances.
• Real Estate Finance – construction and acquisition financing for several of the major hotels and resorts in Bermuda as well as major building projects oversees which use a Bermuda ownership structure.

Recognition

• “MJM demonstrate a deep and expansive knowledge of Bermuda corporate law. They are commercial and reasonable.” – Chambers Global 2024
• “The team has a very firm grip on all aspects of Bermuda corporate law issues.” – Chambers Global 2023
• “They always deliver timely results.” – Chambers Global 2024
• “They are problem solvers in terms of their approach.” – Chambers Global 2024

Insights & Publications

Our lawyers contribute to leading international guides and author regular updates on Bermuda corporate and finance law. See our News & Insights for the latest thought leadership.

Areas of Expertise

• Mergers and Acquisitions: from early transactional structuring to successful closings, from Bermuda focused matters right through to multi-billion dollar multi-jurisdiction M&A transactions.
• Joint Ventures: setting up the full array of joint venture structures; collaboration, cooperation and shareholder arrangements; strategic alliances and corporate partnerships, particularly in advising entrepreneurs and start-ups on what form of joint venture is best for them.
• Corporate Governance: advising on a wide range of Bermuda corporate governance matters, including directors’ duties, shareholders’ rights and protections and issues surrounding board and shareholder meetings.
• Capital Markets: working with our many listed company clients as trusted advisors on matters including IPOs, secondary offerings, rights issues, private placements, bond and note offerings.
• Banking & Finance: high-quality, responsive and thorough legal advice to lenders and borrowers on matters including corporate borrowing, cross-border projects and bank finance, ship finance, and real estate finance.
• Restructuring & Reorganisations: finding business solutions in times of cyclical downturn which can include assisting with winding up, schemes of arrangement, corporate reorganisations, and liquidations.
• Fintech & Digital Assets: helping clients navigate the benefits of offshore structures when establishing entities involving digital assets and blockchain technology.
• Regulatory Compliance: advising clients on matters such as economic substance and corporate income tax requirements.

Our Team

Practice Area Leader

• Jeremy Leese – Partner, Head of Corporate & Finance

Team Members

• Brian Holdipp – Counsel
• Mark Adams – Counsel
• De Waal Nigrini – Associate