Lawyers in Scotland

Magnus Miller

Magnus leads the Dispute Resolution team in Scotland. He is an experienced litigator, with a practice that covers all dispute forums from the Court of Session, Sheriff Courts, arbitrations, mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Magnus specialises in commercial disputes, real estate disputes, energy disputes, procurement challenges and insolvency. He acts for companies of all sizes in matters relating to contractual or shareholder disputes. He acts for commercial landlords and tenants on a range of issues from dilapidations to building safety. Additionally, he advises energy companies on a range of energy and real estate related disputes. His expertise also extends to insolvency, professional negligence, regulatory matters and judicial review. Magnus is a Writer to His Majesty’s Signet. He is on the Committee of the Property Litigation Association and is a Notary Public.

Burges Salmon LLP

Malcolm Donald

Malcolm is a partner in the Corporate and M&A team, and is a member of the Energy & Utilities team. With over 20 years’ experience in both corporate and energy law, he advises clients across a range of industry sectors with particular expertise in the energy industry. He provides advice to clients on all aspects of corporate and energy law, including M&A/transactional work, private equity transactions, joint venture arrangements, energy project developments and corporate structuring. He is also the corporate lead in the firm’s ESG team, advising on the corporate ESG disclosure requirements applicable to UK businesses.

Burges Salmon LLP

Malcolm McPherson

Expertise: Malcolm is one of the leading corporate lawyers in Scotland. He specialises in corporate affairs, advising many companies at a strategic level and looking for deal making opportunities across the business world. Experience: Malcolm is a non-executive director of many successful Scottish companies.

Addleshaw Goddard

Mandip Riar

Mandip is a Senior Associate in our corporate department advising on all aspects of corporate law, including venture capital, infrastructure investments, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, shareholders' agreements, investments and general corporate advisory mandates.

Shoosmiths

Marc Armstrong

Partner

CMS

Mark Hamilton

Mark is a partner in Dentons' Employment and Labor practice. He has specialised in employment law since 1995. He advises on all aspects of employment law including Executive contracts and severances, TUPE transfers, collective employee relations, large restructuring and redundancy programmes, negotiation and termination of contracts and unfair dismissals. He is recognized as having both top class technical legal knowledge and an extremely pragmatic approach whether he is providing strategic advice or guiding clients through a complex dispute. He has nurtured long standing relationships with a number of significant clients of the Firm in a wide variety of sectors, both public and private, with a particular focus on the Food & Beverage and Finance sectors. This is a testament not only to this knowledge but also to his ability to understand their businesses and to give clear, practical and effective advice which focuses on achieving the client’s objectives. In employment matters he strives to achieve the client’s aims with the minimum of disruption but also represents them in both the Employment Tribunal and the EAT when required, whether in Scotland or England. Over the years he has dealt with hundreds of unfair/constructive dismissal and wrongful dismissal claims. Mark combines his employment law practice with an ever growing practice in employment related pensions advice such as steering clients through updating their pension scheme’s governing documentation and advising and negotiating pensions claims. He also advises on pensions aspects of TUPE transfers, severance arrangements and public sector outsourcing arrangements. Mark has advised on many different restructuring arrangements, including several in the public sector which involved voluntary severance arrangements and enhanced benefits under public sector pension schemes (such as the LGPS and Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme).

Dentons

Mark Hastings

Partner - Casualty Glasgow

Weightmans LLP

Mark Macaulay

Mark is a partner in Dentons' construction team. In addition to his law degree, Mark holds B.Sc. (Hons) and LL.M. degrees in the application of IT to law, and is co-author of a book entitled Construction and Procurement Law. He advises on all aspects of transactional construction work including construction procurement issues, letters of intent, construction contracts, professional appointments, collateral warranties, partnering agreements, framework agreements, development agreements and alliancing agreements.

Dentons

Mark McMurray

Partner, Planning

CMS

Martin Beveridge

Of Counsel

CMS

Matthew Bruce

Matthew is a senior associate in our Built Environment team working in all aspects of commercial real estate, including leasing (landlord and tenant), development, investment acquisitions and disposals and secured lending. He has a particular focus on the leisure and retail sectors, acting for a variety of clients such as UK wide hotel and hospitality operators and large retailers. His experience in development work includes all aspects of site acquisition and assembly, site acquisition financing and subsequent development, as well as negotiating agreements for lease, sale agreements and the refinancing/sale of the completed and let development. Matthew also works closely with firms south of the border on the Scots law aspects of cross border portfolio.

Burges Salmon LLP

Maura Connolly

Maura is Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Group. She also leads the Employment Law Group in Ireland. Maura’s disputes practice has involved the management of large scale litigation. This has recently included Commercial Court proceedings relating to professional negligence in the financial sector, management of a large e-discovery process, acting in a landmark case relating to the “Gig Economy” and the status of workers. In addition to representing clients in the Courts, particularly the High Court and Commercial Court, Maura has advised extensively on alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation. Maura’s practice includes advice on regulatory matters, including professional conduct investigations and decision making, administrative law and legal proceedings. She has advised on statutory investigations, tribunals of inquiry and directors’ liability for statutory offences. Having practised for many years in the area of employment law Maura’s practice includes advising employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious matters. She has been involved in many commercial transactions and has considerable experience of employment law issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transfer of undertakings issues. She also advises on a contractual matters, development of policies and procedures, management of disciplinary, performance, absence and other processes. This includes regularly appearing in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the Civil Courts. Data privacy and dealing with data access requests under GDPR is a feature of many cases in which we are involved. Most recently she has advised extensively on Covid-19 related issues, restructurings, redundancies and legislative changes.

Addleshaw Goddard

Megan Green

DLA Piper

Megan McDonald

Megan is a Principal Associate in the Glasgow real estate team with a wide range of commercial property experience acting for landowners, investors, developers, landlords and tenants. She has a broad experience in buying and selling investments properties and acting for both landowners and developers in a range of commercial property development, including energy and strategic land projects. She works closely with other teams to facilitate financing and reorganisation arrangements. Megan also has extensive experience in representing both landlord and tenant clients in ongoing asset management transactions.

Shoosmiths

Michael Dean

Michael is a partner in our Glasgow office. Michael obtained an Honours Degree from Glasgow University and studied EU law at the College of Europe, Bruges. Early in his career, he worked for four years in London with a major international law firm, before returning to establish a practice in a Scottish commercial law firm. Michael has experience in competition law, including cartel proceedings, distribution, state aids and merger clearances. In addition, he has extensive knowledge in the fields of public procurement and export controls. He also has considerable expertise in regulatory law, particularly in the power, post and water sectors. He is an Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany for Glasgow.

Dentons

Michael Greig

DLA Piper

Michael Livingston

Partner specialising in all aspects of corporate, financial services banking and insurance regulation. Advised Prudential on the acquisition of Royal London’s annuity book, Mellon on the acquisition of Walter Scott & Partners, Lloyds on various banking business transfer schemes, Chesnara on various insurance business transfer scheme, BoS on its cross-border merger with BOSI and HBOS and BOS on their capital reduction schemes. A reporter to the Court of Session.

Dentons

Michael McLaughlin

Michael is a Partner in the Employment team and is a vastly experienced employment lawyer and advocate based in Shoosmiths Glasgow office. He appears in tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal throughout the UK. He works across a number of different sectors including infrastructure, rail, utilities and the public sector. He specialises in advising clients on the employment law aspects of structural change particularly insourcing and outsourcing and has been involved in high profile and ground breaking TUPE litigation. Clients comment on Michael's calm, affable, no nonsense style. He is concise and direct when advising clients. They also praise his commanding advocacy style.

Shoosmiths

Mike Lockton

Mike is a Principal Associate who specialises in Asset-Based Lending based in our London office. Following qualification into Hammonds' (now Squire Patton Boggs) ABL Litigation team in 2009, Mike has been advising clients across the invoice finance and alternative lending sectors ever since, most recently having headed up Francis Wilks and Jones' Banking and Finance offering, before joining Shoosmiths' expanding team in March 2023. The instructions Mike receives vary broadly from standard commercial debt recoveries to guarantor actions to fraud-based claims in both the civil and insolvency courts. Although Mike works mainly on contentious issues, he also advises his client base on various operational aspects of their facilities where they seek to mitigate risk, including but not limited to carrying out supply contract reviews and assisting with the variation of facility and security documentation. In addition, as a lot of his instructions are linked to insolvency events, Mike is well-known amongst a number of the key insolvency practitioner contacts in the ABL industry. Mike's expertise includes: advising financiers on enforcement action against clients or former clients and any associated guarantors, warrantors and / or indemnifiers. undertaking large scale collect-outs of sales ledgers on behalf of either financiers or insolvent businesses. advising on and dealing with complex commercial debt recovery claims pursuant to supply contracts - either B2B or on behalf of invoice financiers. advising on and preparing bespoke facility and security documentation to assist with the management of risk in relation to ongoing facilities, including supply contract reviews and facility variations, including, where necessary advising upon any managed "exit plan" for distressed or defaulting businesses. Specialist areas include: asset based lending, invoice finance, fraud, commercial litigation, trade finance, supply chain finance, insolvency and restructuring and debt recovery.

Shoosmiths

Miles Ede

Miles is head of Real Estate in Scotland and specialises in portfolio acquisition and asset management for both occupiers and investors. Miles works with some of the best-known names in the telecoms sector, leading European investment trusts, FTSE 100 companies and private property companies among many others. Miles is also a member of the firm’s Real Estate Division Executive board board.

Addleshaw Goddard

Murray Jack

Murray has extensive experience of advising on a wide range of corporate transactions with a particular focus on private M&A, private equity, and venture capital deals. His clients include large corporates, private equity funds, high growth companies, and high net worth entrepreneurs and investors. Murray's expertise includes advising clients operating in the transport, technology, life sciences, healthcare, food and drink and renewable energy sectors. In addition Murray has capital markets experience with a particular focus on AIM.

Addleshaw Goddard

Naomi Pryde

DLA Piper

Natalie Hager

Natalie is a Principal Associate in our Corporate group based in Leeds. Natalie has significant experience on a wide range of corporate transactions including, private equity and venture capital transactions, private company mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, joint ventures and general corporate advisory. Natalie specialises in private equity transactions (acting for both institutions and management teams) across a variety of sectors. Recent experience includes: advising real estate fund, Moorfield Group, on its £125 million joint venture and investment with Allegra Care; advising LDC on its £221 million sale and subsequent co-investment with Francisco Partners in ByBox; acting for August Equity on its divestment of the Aspirations Group to Elysian Capital, by way of secondary buy-out; advising Moorfield Group on its £100 million joint venture with Stor-Age Property REIT, a real estate investment trust that operates self-storage sites in South Africa and the UK; advising Yorkshire Wildlife Group on its £38 million debt and equity raise from Lloyds Bank plc and BGF; and advising WM Morrison Supermarkets plc on the acquisition of three superstores from Co-operative Group. External quote

Shoosmiths

Natasha Sladen

Natasha is a senior associate in the real estate team in Nottingham. She has experience across multiple areas of non-contentious property work including freehold and leasehold acquistions and disposals asset management work and refinancing. Natasha works on transactions across a range of sectors including retail and hospitality, investment and petroleum. Her work includes: - acting on a multi million portfolio swap project for a large petroleum client; - working with a household national health and beauty retailer in respect of its retail portfolio; - assisting in the acquisition of a multi let retail and leisure park; and - acting for a lender in relation to the funding of the development of student accommodation across multiple sites. Natasha joined the firm in 2021 after having previously worked at Freeths LLP and Geldards LLP.

Shoosmiths