Shepherd and Wedderburn

Corporate – banking and finance.

Hamish is a partner in the finance and restructuring group and has a broad practice in debt finance and restructuring, including conventional corporate banking, asset finance, receivables finance, derivatives, capital markets, innovative funding structures and funding restructuring and reorganisation. He is also involved in policy, systems, regulatory and opinion work for financial institutions and in law reform with government and other public and private sector stakeholders. Hamish has, in particular, played a leading role throughout his career in the development of market standards and innovations in securitisation, in structured funding using Scottish limited partnerships and in cross-border mechanisms for restructuring and enforcement of debt, through co-ordinated insolvency and otherwise. Hamish’s clients include central institutions, UK clearing bank groups and European, North American, Asian and other financial institutions, funds and other funders as well as borrowers and public bodies. He has a PhD in cross-border security and insolvency and speaks and publishes regularly on finance, security and insolvency issues.

Tods Murray 1987-2014 (partner from 1992); partner, Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP 2014 to date. Publications of note: European Cross-Border Insolvency (Scottish Chapter), Sweet & Maxwell; Cross-Border Insolvency (Scottish Chapter), Globe Law & Business.

Law Society of Scotland (banking committee member); Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3); Insolvency Lawyers Association; Steering Committee, English Secured Transactions Project; Consultative Committee, Scottish Law Commission Moveable Transactions Project. Publications of note: European Cross-Border Insolvency (Scottish Chapter), Sweet & Maxwell; Cross-Border Insolvency (Scottish Chapter), Globe Law & Business; The Law of Financial Collateral (Scottish Chapter), Edward Elgar

University of Edinburgh (1984 LLB Hons First Class; 1985 Dip LP; 1994 PhD).