Paul Hally

Corporate Finance

Paul is a partner and chairman of the firm and heads up the finance and restructuring practice. He is one of Scotland’s best-known corporate lawyers, with a number of major energy and financial companies featuring in his client list including Cairn Energy, Lloyds Banking Group and European Assets Trust. He is also a highly experienced insolvency practitioner and. His particular specialism is complex restructuring and insolvency work involving the application of his wide range of banking, insolvency and corporate experience. He acts as a reporter to the Court of Session in Edinburgh on significant corporate transactions and is the convenor of the business policy panel of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Recent work includes acting on various debt to equity restructurings, acting as Reporter on capital reduction applications by Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Standard Life and Cairn Energy’s international investment treaty arbitration against the Government of India.

Perth High School; Edinburgh University (LLB Hons; WS).