Appointments

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has welcomed four new trainee solicitors across two of its Scottish offices.

Scotland’s biggest events campus, the SEC in Glasgow has appointed solicitor Morag McNeill as its new chair. Ms McNeill will replace outgoing chair, Will Whitehorn, who was in the position for nine years. She spent her career as a corporate lawyer and was a senior partner in McGrigors before s

Fifteen new King’s Counsel have been appointed by His Majesty The King on the recommendation of First Minister Humza Yousaf. The new appointees are:

Spencer West has expanded its Scottish team and taken offices in Glasgow.

Philip Knight has been appointed as a litigation and arbitration partner in Edinburgh. Mr Knight has extensive experience advising on contractual disputes, real estate disputes, insolvency and director disqualification, licensing, regulatory, professional negligence, interdicts and financial service

Coulters has appointed experienced estate agent, Di Jennings, to its local team. Ms Jennings takes on the role of senior property consultant in Coulters’ East Lothian office, joining area director Sophie Duns. She spent 13 years growing Simpson & Marwick’s estate agency business in t

Dr Daria Shapovalova has been appointed the director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL), following a successful three-year term as co-director with Dr Thomas Muinzer. AUCEL comprises large number of academics, doctoral researchers, and associate members. Over decades, AUCEL mem

Sam Clarke has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a partner in the real estate finance group. He brings over 16 years’ experience advising financial institutions, developers, investors and listed corporates on real estate finance transactions in the UK and Europe.

Lindsays has strengthened its corporate law team with the appointment of Nicholas Howie. Mr Howie’s legal work is underpinned by a practical corporate background, having worked for the commercial arm of a construction firm and in management roles for an international supermarket retailer befor

Thorntons has welcomed its single largest intake of trainees, as 17 graduates start with the firm this month.

Blackadders LLP has welcomed a new group of 10 trainees to the firm. The latest cohort of eager legal minds have set out on their careers with inductions across the full-service firm’s units including four seats in each of separate departments within the private client and business service gro

Raeburn Christie Clark and Wallace LLP is continuing to support the development of local legal talent with the recruitment of three trainee solicitors.

Blackadders LLP has boosted its rural team by appointing Ian Angus as an associate. He is also a part-time farmer, running his own livestock farm near Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

DAC Beachcroft is pleased to welcome commercial and construction disputes specialist Alistair Dean as a partner in its national professional & commercial risks team in Scotland.  He joins DACB from Anderson Strathern.

Gilson Gray has promoted Vanessa Kennedy to the newly established position of director of marketing and business development. The newly created post, which merges leadership of the two functions, will see Ms Kennedy take responsibility for all of Gilson Gray’s marketing and business devel