Corporate and Financial Services

Brian is a Corporate partner in the Firm's Edinburgh office and has been with the Firm since 1997. He has broad experience of a wide range of UK and international corporate and commercial work, and specialises in public and private M&A and equity capital markets transactions. He is also a Reporter to the Court of Session in Scotland in respect of company schemes of arrangement and reduction schemes, cross-border mergers, Part VII insurance, and banking business and ring-fencing transfer schemes. Brian is dual qualified in Scotland and in England and Wales, and is particularly active in the food and beverage, industrials and real estate sectors.

Research assistant with Scottish Law Commission (Summer 1996); trained Maclay Murray & Spens; qualified Scotland 1999; qualified England 2004; associate Maclay Murray & Spens 2004; seconded to Clyde Blowers 2005; partner 2008.

Forrester High School, Edinburgh; University of Dundee (1996 LLB (Hons); 1997 Dip LP).

Football; golf; cycling; reading; travel.