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Edward Rance

Director

Office
Bermuda
Jurisdiction(s)
Bermuda
Contact

Phone +1 441 278 7904
Email edward.rance@conyers.com

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Recognition

Legal 500 Caribbean 2020 Global Restructuring Review 100 2019 Legal 500 Caribbean 2021

Edward Rance is a Director in the Corporate department of Conyers Dill & Pearman. He joined Conyers in 2016. Edward’s practice consists of a broad range of corporate and finance matters, including in and out of court insolvencies and restructurings. Edward also advises ultra-high net worth individuals on offshore holding structures.

Prior to joining Conyers, Edward practised with Allen & Overy LLP and Milbank Tweed Hadley and McCloy, with a particular emphasis on advising financial institutions and investment funds in relation to publically traded securities and the distressed debt market.

Experience Highlights

  • Advised Liberty Latin America on their $4 billion split-off and demerger from Liberty Global plc, and their subsequent listing and launch on NASDAQAdvised Acted as special Bermuda counsel to The Bank of N.T Butterfield & Son Limited in connection with its US$287.5 million initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange and subsequent US$349 million secondary offering.
  • Advised Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: TGH) (“Textainer”), the world’s largest lessor of intermodal containers based on fleet size, on numerous credit/loan facilities and asset-backed note securitization (“ABS”) transactions, most recently the issuance by Textainer Marine Containers V Limited (an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Textainer) of US$500 million fixed rate asset backed notes which represented one of the largest ABS transactions in the history of the intermodal containers leasing industry and the initial entry and subsequent refinance by Textainer Marine Containers II Limited (also an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Textainer) of its $1.2 billion warehouse securitization facility.
  • Advised a private equity consortium led by Centerbridge Partners, L.P. on their $952 million acquisition of Canopius from Sompo Holdings.

Professional Background

  • Associate, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, London
  • Trainee & Associate, Allen & Overy LLP, London

Education

  • College of Law (London), LLB, 2011
  • University of Oxford, MSc, 2009
  • University of Cambridge, MA, 2008

Bar Admissions

  • Bermuda, 2013
  • England & Wales, 2013 (not currently practising)

Awards & Accolades

  • Recognised in the 2021 edition (and since 2018) of Legal 500 Caribbean as a Rising Star (banking, finance and capital markets)
  • Recognised in the 2019 edition (and 2018) of Legal 500 Caribbean (corporate and commercial)

Associations

  • Insolvency Lawyers Associate
  • R3 – Association of Business Recovery Professionals

Area(s) of Expertise

Legal Services
Capital Markets
Corporate
Finance
Litigation & Restructuring
Mergers & Acquisitions

Featured Content

BPCU January 2021

This edition of the Bermuda Public Companies Update summarises significant transactions involving Bermuda companies on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in the second half of 2020.

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