Thorntons ranked highly among Scottish businesses

Thorntons has been named as one of Scotland’s top ten performing businesses, climbing 33 places in Scottish Business Insider’s SME 300 table.

The league table, which measures the performance of Scottish companies with turnover between £8-20 million, shows Thorntons is the country’s highest-climbing law firm after a year in which both turnover and profits grew.

It came eight in the table, up from 41 last year.

The firm is celebrating growth in its private client, estate agency, land and rural, education and personal injury practices - with growth in some areas reportedly rising by 20 per cent.

The firm’s turnover rose from £14.38 million to £16.28 million over the past year, and profits increased by more than £1.3 million to £3.98 million.

Joint managing partners Craig Nicol and Scott Milne said: “Reaching the top 10 of the SME 300 reflects the tireless work of the whole Thorntons team has undertaken to make this one of our best ever years.

“Our current success is built on the work of those who have spent decades building the firm’s reputation.

“It is imperative that we strive to build on this success and the whole team remains dedicated to continually improving our existing services and developing new services.

“We have in the last few months won a place on The Scottish government’s Legal Framework Panel and we are looking forward to developing our relationship with the Scottish government, its Agencies and Legal Teams to work with the other panel firms in delivering a first class service.”