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Aberdein Considine has pushed the button on “significant” investment which sees the rapidly-growing Northeast legal firm push into a new Stirling base.

The Aberdeen-headquartered business said that its two-storey office on Stirling’s Port Street would be the first of a “new generation” of high street operations, bringing together estate agency, legal and independent financial services. Its push into the new premises has been backed with funding from Royal Bank of Scotland.

Meanwhile, the firm has continued to strengthen its senior legal capability with the appointment of two new partners in its family law team.

April Campbell, a former associate at Jeffrey Aitken, has joined as a partner to spearhead the firm’s matrimonial and family law operation in Stirling and Glasgow.

Karl Brown, a founding partner of Aberdeen legal business Murray & Brown, has moved to Aberdein Considine’s family law team in the Granite City.

Managing partner Jacqueline Law said: “Our expan-

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JACQUELINE LAW sion in Stirling underlines our commitment to the high street, where we now have a more diverse range of expertise on offer than ever before.

“The way that people choose a professional adviser is changing, particularly in estate agency, where some people have been lured by a veil of low fixed fees.

“We truly believe that it is in the public’s best interest to deal with expert local professionals who can offer market knowledge together with strong digital marketing.”

The new Stirling operation will be led by the firm’s partners in the city – Anthony Quin and Philip Anderson – who both joined Aberdein Considine following its 2014 merger with Muirhead Buchanan.

The firm, which was launched in 1981 by friends Harvey Aberdein and Iain Considine, now has 19 offices across Scotland and the north of England and nearly 400 staff.

It has also made a number of senior appointments to help further establish it in the Forth

“The way that people choose a professional adviser is changing, particularly in estate agency.”