Scotland’s Brodies has posted a slight increase in turnover for 2020/21, with total revenue rising by £500,000 from £82m to £82.5m. Operating profit increased from £38.5m to £39m while cash balances also grew to £30.7m from £25.4m. Brodies managing partner, Nick Scott, said that the early part of the financial year had seen clients assessing […]
After surveying staff on what they want from the office, DWF is to move to new and smaller premises in Glasgow to reflect the change in working patterns caused by the pandemic. This is the first step to be taken by the firm on the back of its global office strategy, which started late last […]
Dentons’ private client team in Scotland is decamping to Shepherd and Wedderburn, with a team of 20 making the move. The group is led by partners Eleanor Kerr and Alexis Graham in Glasgow, and includes seven other lawyers. Both Kerr and Graham are legacy Maclay Murray & Spens, which merged with Dentons in 2017. Kerr […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang and Addleshaw Goddard are among the four firms that have been added to Scottish Enterprise’s new £8.7m panel. The public body has appointed Scottish firms Brodies and Burness Paull to the panel, as well as CMS and Addleshaws. Shepherd and Wedderburn, which was on the former panel running from 2016 […]
Scottish Water is seeking to update its legal panel, six years after putting together its last roster of law firms. The publically-owned water and waste water company had reappointed DLA Piper and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang in 2015, alongside BLM. Scottish firm Anderson Strathern won a spot on the panel for the first time, […]
Clyde & Co has parted ways with Scottish real estate firm Simpson & Marwick, just five years after the firms merged. The firms merged in October 2015, marking Clydes’ first foray into Scotland. Now Simpson & Marwick has decided to go it alone, with its 26-strong residential property team moving to new offices. Simpson & […]
Burness Paull has completed a multimillion-pound fundraising round, in which the firm’s top equity partners were asked to double their capital stakes to £300,000. The firm voted through the cash call in April, as partners opted to inject cash into the business rather than raise bank borrowings. Burness Paull has also reduced monthly drawings by […]
The big legal story in Scotland over the last few years has been the demise of the ‘Big Four’, or at least the absorption of three of them into the major internationals. A reminder: McGrigors was acquired by Pinsent Masons in 2012; Dundas & Wilson by CMS in 2014; and Maclay Murray & Spens by […]
Balfour & Manson chairman Elaine Motion, who led on proceedings heard in the Scottish courts, has said this morning’s verdict over Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament marks “the day that democracy was restored”. Elaine Motion led the team that acted for Joanna Cherry and a cross-party group of MPs, instructing Aidan O’Neill QC of […]
Clyde & Co has parted ways with its residential property team in Aberdeen, with the team of 12 set to transfer all of its business over to another Scottish firm. The firm has sold its legacy Simpson & Marwick Aberdeen estate agency team to Ledingham Chalmers and this transfer will be completed on November 4. […]
Two of Scotland’s largest independent law firms, Brodies and Shepherd & Wedderburn, have reported growth in both revenue and profitability for 2018/19. Brodies, which is Scotland’s largest firm, saw its turnover increase by 12 per cent from £68.6m to £76.9m, while profits before partner distributions also saw double-digit growth of 14 per cent from £32.9m […]
Burges Salmon has made a round of partner hires ahead of the opening of its new Scotland office, which is set to open its doors next month.