Kimberley Goh, who joined Shoosmiths as a legal director in 2022 has been promoted to corporate partner. She has been rewarded for her consistently impressive track record, notably advising on complex national and international M&A transactions across a variety of sectors. This includes advising clients on effective equity investment arrangements into and exits from their investment portfolios in the Scottish and wider UK real estate sector.

Jenn Wright (employment) has been promoted to legal director while Grace Watson, Samantha Mackie (both employment) and Seonaid Sandham (litigation) have been promoted to principal associate (from senior associate), Sylwia Jakuczun and Julide Cevher (both corporate) have been promoted to senior associate (from associate) and Michael Moyles (litigation) has been promoted to senior manager (from manager). Struan McCulloch and Faye Saunders also recently joined the corporate team as associates. 

Kirsten Hewson, chair of Shoosmiths, said: “Our Glasgow and Edinburgh based teams are firmly established in the Scottish market and consistently lead on or advise on sophisticated, high value legal matters for our UK and overseas blue-chip client base.

“Those promoted and their colleagues, embody the culture we are building at Shoosmiths, one that values collaboration, ambition and the confidence to do things differently. These eight well deserved promotions, underline our continued investment in supporting commercially astute, client focused talent who are the future of our business. These promotions also come at a point of clear momentum for the firm as we focus on delivering Shoosmiths’ 2030 strategy.”