By Scott Wright
LAW firm Brodies has announced details of an office move to Inverness while unveiling a raft of promotions.
The firm said it will relocate its Highlands office to Clava House in the city’s Cradlehall Business Park from its current base in Dingwall Business Park, which opened in 2017. It will be Brodies’ third investment in new premises in the last 12 months, following the opening of an office in London, and a move to a new base in Edinburgh at Capital Square early this year. Brodies will occupy the Inverness building alongside accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael.
The firm revealed details of the move along with a series of promotions. Susie Mountain and Sarah Lilley, based in Aberdeen and the Highlands, step up to partner level, while Ryan Bowie and Stuart Murray become the firm’s newest Glasgow-based partners for land and rural business, and projects.
Edinburgh-based tax specialist Bob Langridge and charities and third-sector expert Kenneth Pinkerton are also promoted to partner within their respected fields, as is English-qualified property disputes and telecommunications specialist Lucie Barnes.
Glasgow and Edinburgh-based insurance and risk lawyers Lynn Livesey and Ed Grundy are elevated to legal director and associate level, and Edinburgh-based renewables specialist Isabella van Green has become an associate.
Brodies’ managing partner Nick Scott said: “These latest investments in our people and our offices are reflective of the objectives that we set ourselves in our 2021-2024 strategic plans; to provide our clients with relevant, quality legal advice, and to deliver it in a way that would best facilitate collaboration, conversation and the sharing of knowledge. The breadth of skill and experience of those colleagues who step into new roles aligns with the demand we have seen from clients. I congratulate our colleagues and wish them all the best in their new roles.
“Moving our Highlands office to Inverness follows strong client activity across the region and continued growth of our locally-based team. Our new premises are modern and bright, providing an excellent space for our colleagues and clients to meet and work with each other in the Highland capital, in the years ahead.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here