Press Releases

Shepherd and Wedderburn has appointed Euan Murray as a Partner in its construction and infrastructure team. He brings to the firm and its clients 16 years’ experience advising on the procurement, construction and operation of energy and infrastructure projects across the UK. Euan, who was previously a Director at Shepherd and Wedderburn, re-joined the firm on 14 June ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn is pleased to announce its appointment to Virgin Money’s reduced core panel of legal advisers following a rigorous tender process. The firm will continue to support Virgin Money, a longstanding client of the firm, by providing specialist legal expertise to the financial service provider’s operations across the UK ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team has acted for the majority shareholders in the sale of QCL Holdings Limited, a fixed wireless broadband company known as Quickline, valuing the business at up to £92.1 million. The firm’s corporate finance lawyers advised shareholders on all aspects of the sale, led by Quickline’s majority shareholder, AIM-listed Bigblu Broadband plc, to an investment vehicle to be held 80% by Canadian infrastructure fund Northleaf Capital Partners ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn, the largest Scottish-headquartered UK law firm, has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and signed the Edinburgh Climate Compact. The firm, which has been at the forefront of innovation in the clean energy sector for almost three decades, has adopted an enhanced sustainability strategy, underpinned by a ‘route map’ focused on reducing its Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Reporting Standard ...

Dentons’ Scottish private client team is joining Shepherd and Wedderburn, creating one of Scotland’s largest private client practices and expanding the specialist asset protection, personal tax planning, trusts, executries and succession planning support available to clients. The arrival of the 20-strong team, led by partners Eleanor Kerr and Alexis Graham, both of whom are regarded as leaders in their field, will increase the size of Shepherd and Wedderburn’s private client practice to 46 ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has supported financial planning and wealth management business Advanta Wealth, based in Glasgow and London, with the next stage of its growth plans. Our corporate finance team, headed up by Partner George Frier, has advised Advanta’s management team, led by CEO Craig Webster, in a successful multi-million-pound investment by London-based Beech Tree Private Equity. The transaction will support Advanta’s ambitious buy and build strategy ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team has reported a busy 12 months, supporting clients with a mix of strong deal volumes and advisory work, despite the ongoing challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 12 months to 31 October 2020, the team advised clients, including banks, funds, financial institutions, alternative lenders, public bodies, corporate borrowers and sponsors, on deals with a total value of more than £40 billion ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, along with English counsel Ashurst LLP, has advised a consortium of investors who, via investment vehicle Zander Topco Limited, have acquired ASCO Group Ltd (ASCO), the largest global provider of outsourced logistics services and solutions to the oil and gas industry. The transaction marks the exit by DH Private Equity Partners of its last portfolio company and includes a refinancing of ASCO's existing banking facilities ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team has reported a busy first half of the 2020/21 financial year, supporting clients with strong and sustained deal activity despite the challenging environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The firm’s corporate finance lawyers advised on deals with a combined value exceeding £2 billion in the six months to 31 October 2020 ...

Gillian Carty has been elected Chair of Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, the largest Scottish-headquartered UK law firm. She will chair Shepherd and Wedderburn’s board, working closely with her fellow partners and Andrew Blain, Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Managing Partner, to chart the firm’s strategic direction over the next three years. Gillian joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a trainee solicitor in 1993 and was assumed as a partner in 2001 ...

The corporate finance group at Scottish member Shepherd and Wedderburn has had a very busy first half of the year despite C-19. Highlights of M&A activity include: 1. adviser to Epic Games International on its acquisition of Superawesome, a leading UK provider of “kid tech”, supplying Lego, Hasbro and others; 2. advising AIM listed BigBlu Broadband plc on its £40m disposal of its European satellite broadband business to Euronext listed Eutelsat S.A ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Smarter Working team has been highly commended in the Most Innovative Use of Technology category at the Lawyer Awards 2020. The innovation unit was recognised at the prestigious national awards for its collaboration with client Virgin Money in delivering a bespoke case management system to automate the legal aspects of refinancing under the Incentivised Switching Scheme ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn enjoyed a duo of successes at the Scottish Legal Awards on Wednesday, where Leigh Herd, an Associate in the property and infrastructure disputes team, was named Rising Star of the Year and the firm’s marketing and business development team was highly commended in the Support Team of the Year category ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has established a dedicated International Families Group in response to a surge in demand for legal advice from overseas clients wishing to relocate to the UK ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has established a COVID-19 Advisory Group, which draws relevant, specialist expertise from across the firm to support clients with informed, pragmatic legal advice on the unprecedented challenges posed by the global pandemic ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team advised on deals with an aggregate value of £6.03 billion in 2019. The team, which was named Corporate and Commercial Team of the Year at the 2019 Scottish Legal Awards, advised on 85 deals globally in the year to December 2019, including a number of notable clean energy and technology-led transactions. Clean energy deals included: • Acting for BayWa r.e ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn is the top-ranked Scottish-headquartered law firm in a new list of the UK’s top 25 legal employers for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. The firm is ranked 16th in the Top 25 in the Legal Sector listing, published by Stonewall and the InterLaw Diversity Forum as part of Stonewall’s annual Workplace Equality Index (WEI) ...

Steve Dalgleish, Head of Technology at Shepherd and Wedderburn and Co-head of the firm’s Smarter Working unit, has become the first non-solicitor to be awarded Accredited Legal Technologist status by the Law Society of Scotland. Steve received the accreditation in recognition of his expertise and leadership role in developing and implementing technological infrastructure and solutions for legal services ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has been honoured with two awards at The Herald Law Awards of Scotland 2019. The banking and finance team, led by Fiona Buchanan, was named Transaction Team of the Year – the third consecutive year that it has been recognised at the Law Awards of Scotland – and the firm's Smarter Working team, led by Lynn Beaumont and Steve Dalgleish, was honoured with the Innovation Award at the ceremony at the Doubletree Hilton in Glasgow, which was attended by more than 400 guests ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP has launched a Smarter Working innovation unit to further enhance its service to clients. The Smarter Working unit, believed to be the first of its kind for a Scottish-headquartered law firm, pools the firm’s established expertise in the fields of process, automation, technology, data and knowledge to improve efficiency and provide insights that deliver genuine benefit to clients ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn has promoted six solicitors to Associate in its latest round of internal promotions, four of whom joined the firm as trainees. Leigh Herd (contentious construction), Emma Guthrie (property and infrastructure), Katy Fitzpatrick (banking and finance), Nathaniel Buckingham (contentious construction), Andrew Winton (commercial disputes and regulation) and James Bulpitt (banking and finance) will assume their new roles on 1 October ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn acted for the shareholders in Scottish data analytics company deltaDNA in its sale to US-based game platform developer Unity Technologies. Edinburgh-based deltaDNA has developed a powerful data analytics engine for game developers that tracks the performance of games in real time, across mobile, PC, TV, and console play ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team has reported another strong year for deals, with the value of transactions rising by 10% (£13.4 billion) in the 2019 financial year to 30 April. The team completed 167 deals with a combined value of £145.4 billion, up from 162 deals valued at £132 billion in 2017/18 ...

Yvonne Brady, Head of Restructuring and Business Advisory at Shepherd and Wedderburn, was last night named Best Professional in Business at the Scottish Women’s Awards 2019 ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Glasgow corporate team advised longstanding client and satellite broadband provider BigBlu Broadband plc on the demerger of its UK fixed wireless broadband business, Quickline Communications Ltd, backed with new private equity investment and debt funding. A team led by George Frier, with support from John Morrison and Gavin Charlton,(Share schemes) advised BigBlu on demerging its Fixed Wireless broadband subsidiary to a new company, QCL Holdings ...