ON A HIGH

Brodies, the Scottish legal heavyweight, has emerged from a “very busy and at times quite dramatic year” to report its seventh consecutive period of revenue and profit growth.

Releasing its headline financial results today, the Edinburgh-headquartered firm said revenues grew by 2.4 per cent to a record £66.7 million in the year to the end of April.

Over the same period, profits before partner distributions nudged up 2.6 per cent to £31.7m and the firm’s cash balances increased by 14.4 per cent to £18.2m.

Brodies, which also has offices in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Brussels, said it had continued to invest in its services despite the political and economic uncertainty that followed last June’s EU referendum.

Managing partner Bill Drummond said: “All in all, it has been a very busy and at times quite dramatic year for Brodies and our clients, which underscores our satisfaction in recording another year of enhanced business performance for the firm across a number of measures.

“Along with most of our cli-

0 Bill Drummond has been managing partner for the past 19 years

BILL DRUMMOND ents – British or overseas – at Brodies we were surprised by the news, on 24 June last year, that the UK had voted to leave the EU and the consequences for Brexit and the economy are now having to be further digested following the UK general election result and the absence of any one party with a clear majority at Westminster.

“Against this backdrop the increase in income that we are reporting is a satisfactory outcome for the year, indeed a new high point for the firm.”

Drummond said he hoped politicians would be “pragmatic and collaborative” in their dealings with their EU counterparts to ensure that “as little economic damage as possible is done”.

He added: “To us, as with many clients, it is especially important that Scotland is able to retain and welcome workers from the EU and elsewhere who make such a valuable contribution to most sectors of our economy.”

The firm currently comprises 94 partners, 311 other professional

“The increase in income that we are reporting is a satisfactory outcome for the year, indeed a new high point for the firm”