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Brodies is delighted to announce the opening of our Aberdeen office at 23 Carden Place in the West End of the city. This is an exciting development for the firm and reinforces our credentials as the largest wholly Scottish based law firm. We are also pleased to announce several new significant hires, boosting our oil and gas and property teams.
Alongside specialist Clare Munro, who joined the firm in March, is new oil and gas partner Greg May, who will also be based in the Aberdeen office. Greg joins from his position of general counsel at global oilfield services company Transocean, which supplies and operates oil rigs around the world. Based in Aberdeen, Greg has been providing legal advice and support to the company’s business unit for Europe, Africa and the Mediterranean, stretching from the North Sea to Nigeria. He is an expert in all aspects of the legal arrangements around the supply, installation, maintenance and operation of rigs and other oilfield services.
Also joining the oil and gas team will be senior solicitor Rhona McFarlane from McGrigors’ Aberdeen office. An Aberdonian herself, Rhona has worked for the past five years with clients in the oil and gas and shipping sectors and has been involved in several major commercial transactions in the North East. With wide-ranging contract, corporate and property law experience Rhona will be supporting our expanding oil and gas team from May.
Associate David Rose, originally from Aberdeen and previously head of business law at Thorntons in Dundee, has extensive commercial property experience and additional expertise in liquor licensing. Now working alongside Colin MacLaren in Aberdeen, David’s know-how particularly complements our existing and top-rated expertise in commercial and retail property.
Iain McGillivray is a versatile commercial property law specialist who has extensive international experience. An Aberdonian who studied in the city, Iain also practised in Edinburgh before joining the largest specialist real estate law firm in the Middle East, Al Tamimi & Company, in Dubai. Most recently Iain has been in-house counsel at Damac Holdings, a large multinational conglomerate and one of the Middle East’s biggest real estate developers. Iain also joins us in May.
We now have a first-rate office facility in the city which is fully integrated into our Brodies network, allowing staff to move freely between our offices. The coming weeks and months will see additional exciting investment in the new office. What this means for ACE is that we will be able to get to know more personally ACE member firms in the north east of Scotland with a view to working more closely with them. We will also be able to provide local seminars on issues of importance to the construction and engineering sector, and offer wide-ranging networking opportunities brought by our new recruits.
For more information please contact Manus Quigg, partner in Brodies’ construction and engineering group on 0141 245 6730 or manus.quigg@brodies.com
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