Brodies boosts numbers with 9 partners
Scottish legal heavyweight Brodies has welcomed nine new partners, including four internal promotions and five lateral hires.
The internal promotions comprise banking and finance lawyermarkmeiklejohn;commercial litigator and solicitor advocate Craig Watt; and personal and family lawyers Hayley Robertson and Nick Marshall.
They will be joined by Allan Cairns and Colin Keenan, who join the firm's real estate practice, and litigator Gareth Hale
– all three join from Dentons – and corporate lawyers Martin Ewan and David Millar. The last two boost Brodies' growing practice in Aberdeen, as the firm marks a decade in the city.
Mr Cairns specialises in the UK real estate investment market, while Mr Keenan has a focus on the retail sector. Complementing Brodies’ litigation practice is Mr Hale, who has represented UK clients in sectors from housebuilding, shopping centres and retail parks to care homes and healthcare.
Mr Ewan has more than two decades under his belt and is an experienced intellectual property and technology lawyer in the oil and gas industry, while Mr Millar is a veteran of corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity work.
In addition to the new partners, the firm has promoted nine colleagues to the role of senior associate and 12 to associate.
Managing partner Nick Scott said: “Our strategic plans for 2021-24 recognise the opportunity for growth across all areas of the firm and the benefits that will bring to our clients in the provision of relevant, quality legal advice.”