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Partner - Private Client & Trusts - Bermuda

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Date: 16 Jun 2026

Location: Hamilton, BM, HM11

Company: Walkers Global

 

We are a leading international law firm for global corporations, financial institutions, capital market participants and investment fund managers. With a global presence spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we advise on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey.

We treat everyone as the intelligent professional they are. Our approach is to trust and empower our people to deliver consistently, and enable them to succeed. Diversity is our secret weapon – it’s the sheer breadth of Walkers people that makes us who we are – gathered from across the globe and fluent in languages, jurisdictions and cultures that help us to mirror our clients and keep our own thinking in tune with the world in which we operate.

 

Overview of role

The Partner, Private Capital and Trusts will be responsible for defining and driving the strategic direction of the practice. The role holds full accountability for its growth, market positioning, and long-term success, ensuring alignment with the firm’s wider strategic objectives.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Lead and shape the strategic direction of the Private Capital and Trusts practice, taking full ownership for its growth, positioning, and long-term success within the Firm.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to clients, delivering expert, commercially focused, and technically robust advice while ensuring a highly responsive, relationship-driven service experience.
  • Originate, build, and deepen key client relationships, positioning the Firm as a preferred advisor and expanding the client base in line with strategic priorities.
  • Build, lead, and develop high-performing teams, including mentoring, supervising, and retaining attorneys while fostering future leaders within the practice.
  • Drive collaboration across the Firm, working with other Partners and practice areas to deliver integrated client solutions and maximise cross-selling opportunities.
  • Act as a visible leader within the Firm and the market, strengthening the practice’s reputation and contributing to the overall strategic growth of the Firm.

Education, Knowledge & Experience

  • Bermuda and/or qualified commonwealth lawyer with a minimum of 5 years of post-qualifying financial regulatory experience at an international or Bermuda law firm.
  • Able to provide sound advice on a wide range of private capital/private client matters with experience working for an established private client practice or family office preferred
  • Able to provide sound advice with respect to corporate transactions involving the deployment of private capital including experience with the corporate/finance aspects of private capital work preferred
  • Able to provide sound advice with respect to the formation of family office and other business structures in Bermuda, the relocation of individuals and businesses to Bermuda, and local regulatory/licensing requirements preferred
  • Must be able to provide clients with innovative solutions to all manner of legal requirements to meet each client's needs both regulatory and commercial
  • Excellent academics with top level international experience.
  • Ambitious and commercially driven.
  • Solid legal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work successfully in a collaborative environment, a team player, willing to support others regardless of  personal role or task  and to help others in identifying needs and crafting development plans.
  • Ability to use legal precedents and timekeeping and billing systems.
  • Ability and motivation to support efforts to attract new clients and develop new initiatives.

 

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Walkers global is an equal opportunity employer. Equality and diversity are key to our global identity and an integral part of our goal to continue being an employer of choice. We are committed to a work environment that supports all individuals irrespective of gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. We make every effort to ensure that employment opportunities are open and accessible to all purely on the basis of personal ability.