Kevin Bourque
Senior vice president and counsel
DVB Bank
Kevin Bourque leads the legal team at DVB Bank, which specialises in financing transport assets. With an external legal spend of between £20m and £40m he is sole in-house counsel but has four secondees from his law firm panel.
Bourque was recruited by DVB Bank to formulate the legal architecture for a securitisation initiative. However, shortly after joining, he found himself as head of legal for the shipping division. He applies forensic analysis to his work, and is known for creating ‘warehousing structures’ in the Marshall Islands, where DVB has assets.
‘I’m a real commercial lawyer,’ says Bourque. ‘I’m very practical and that’s what underpins my decisions. I have to dig down deep academically to take a good view of the commercial legal risk that we are taking and what the range of risk is within that spectrum.’
Law firms used: Berwin Leighton Paisner, Holman Fenwick Willan, Ince & Co, Norton Rose, Stephenson Harwood, Watson, Farley & Williams
2007-present: Senior vice president and counsel, DVB Bank
2005–07: Associate, DLA Piper
2003–05: Associate, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe