THE Corporate TEAM
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WELCOME FROM Malcolm Holmes, Partner and Head of THE Corporate Team The Tods Murray Corporate Team provides a blend of technical expertise, commercial acumen, experience and commitment. We are recognised as leaders in our field as we are able to combine exceptional transactional skills and specialist expertise so that we can provide the appropriate advice to our clients. Understanding your business and its objectives is at the heart of everything we do. It enables us to understand the challenges you face and to assist you with commercial advice. Our approach is therefore a collaborative one, and we hope our clients regard us as being a part of their team. Committed to helping clients achieve their goals, we are a proactive group and pride ourselves on the quality of our service. Our
Malcolm Holmes
Partner and Head of the Corporate Team
THE CORPORATE TEAM
this f irm continues to handle a variety
provides a level of service
of CORPORATE and COMMERCIAL transactions
THAT CLIENTS CONSIDER
EXCEPTIONAL - Legal 500 -
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brochure will give you a flavour of our skills and experience, the services we offer and how we might assist your business. To find out more about us please call me or one of my colleagues.
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Helping your business achieve success We are ranked as leaders in our field and recognised as one of Scotland’s leading firms for Corporate and Commercial Work.
OVERVIEW
Tods Murray LLP is a leading Scottish law firm and our Corporate Team is backed by core practice areas including; Banking & Finance Employment Law Litigation
Private Client Projects and Real Estate
By drawing on the expertise from across the firm we provide a fully integrated service that addresses every aspect of a transaction. We also operate over twenty specialist teams in various sectors with experts we can call upon including Healthcare, Construction, Hospitality & Leisure, Licensing, Recovery and Insolvency, Renewable Energy and Tax.
Our Services
The Corporate Team is recognised as one of Scotland’s leading teams for corporate and commercial work. Our broad range of expertise includes; Acquisitions and Disposals Business Start Ups Buy Outs / Buy Ins Commercial Contracts Company Law Company Secretary Services Corporate Finance Corporate Governance and Compliance
Corporate Restructuring Joint Ventures Information Technology Intellectual Property Mergers Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, LLPs Public Offerings Shareholder Agreements Sports Law
Expertise
We work with clients from all over the UK and beyond and across many sectors. However we have particular expertise in Hospitality and Leisure, SME / Owner Managed Businesses and Professional Services. We are the Scottish law firm of choice to a range of national and international institutions and law firms. We also work closely with law firms in London on cross border matters, including the use of Scottish limited partnerships for funds and investment work.
Key Strengths
Our Corporate Team works from both our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. They work seamlessly with the firm’s other specialist departments giving clients access to over 100 legal experts. This ensures that our clients are confident that they will receive the highest quality advice from a legal adviser who is able to service clients across the UK and beyond. By drawing on the expertise from across the firm we provide a fully integrated service that addresses every aspect of a transaction. Our key strengths lie within our people – the diversity and skill set of the team and its commitment. We are proud to have a reputation of providing commercially focussed, strategic advice and solutions to a range of complex corporate law issues. Our clients rely on us to deliver the sound advice and solutions they need to make things happen.
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About Tods Murray Tods Murray LLP is a leading independent Scottish law firm operating from offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow Serving clients across the UK and beyond. The Firm is dedicated to providing first rate, innovative and commercially aware specialist advice. With a robust team of 33 Partners and over 100 lawyers we are able to draw upon the best team to provide tailored solutions to clients.
What do we stand for? A relationship with you
Relationships matter to us. Nurturing and developing constructive, productive relationships with our many clients, our own colleagues, and with the wider social, cultural and business communities in which we work, is at the heart of what we stand for. The better we know you and your business, the easier we can anticipate future challenges and take dynamic steps to resolve them before they arise. We’ve been fine tuning our own business approach since the late 18th century, so we’re confident that our own focus on developing meaningful relationships with our clients works. With city centre offices in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, we see ourselves as a full service law firm based in Scotland. We offer an extensive selection of legal solutions and guidance, carefully crafted to meet the needs of the many companies, organisations, charities, families and individuals that we count among our clients – across Scotland, the UK and beyond. Whether you come to us for advice in relation to your business or your own personal affairs, our pragmatic
What do we offer? Knowledge, expertise & results for you
understanding of your needs gives us the insight to offer support that’s inventive and forward-looking yet grounded in decades of experience and our enduring legacy of legal expertise. Although our focus is predominantly on Scots law, we have also developed successful partnerships with top legal firms in London and Europe, and regularly engage with non-legal professionals to ensure that you get the well-rounded support you need and expect. Our emphasis on cultivating relationships with the wider community is evident in our varied work with, and support of, Scotland’s voluntary and creative sectors. For many years we have been a proud sponsor of cultural organisations and events, and we continue to look for innovative and inventive ways in which to share our expertise and support for Scotland’s creative community. Positive relationships matter to us not just because they enable us to do our job properly; we know that our expertise and understanding is greatest when we are fully engaged with the wider communities outside our doors.
We offer quality legal advice that you can trust, delivered by We pride ourselves on being at the cutting edge of emergadvisors who genuinely have your best interests at heart. In ing industries and responding to new developments in busishort, we offer a relationship you can depend on. ness, society and technology. But what makes us different Every day we work with a host of different clients: public from other legal firms is that we regard ourselves as more sector organisations; private sector companies and third sec- than just legal advisers. tor voluntary bodies – each with their own distinct story. We By getting to know you properly, we can provide an incan do this thanks to our colleagues’ wide experience and dependent perspective on your business or personal affairs. knowledge – together we make up one incomparable team. Thanks to many years of working with a wide range of com We recognise that clients demand more and better value panies and individuals, the advice we offer is grounded in from us and we are responding to these needs through de- our extensive experience. We have a reputation for collabolivering new ways of working: smarter tools; better develop- ration and a considered approach to problem-solving that’s ment and deployment of our skills and services. We aim to second to none - just ask some of our clients. integrate with you, such as through our annual programme Does all this come at a price? Well, yes, but we are confiof briefings, events and online resources which are specifi- dent that we offer all our clients genuine value for money cally designed and offered with your priorities in mind. – and the kind of timely, relevant advice that gets noticeable Over time, we have developed a reputation for excellence in results. Our depth of service makes the real difference to our several key areas. We are recognised as experts by the independ- clients’ bottom line. And that’s, ultimately, what matters. ent directories of legal firms, Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
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Our Experience We are proud that some of the world’s leading brands and organisations choose Tods Murray’s Corporate Team. We work with a variety of leading organisations from many sectors.
Some examples of our recent work include:
Melrose Resources PLC
We also advised Melrose on its £170m merger with Petroceltic International. The work also involved a new AIM admission for the merged company. Our Team handled matters such as AIM regulatory requirements and managing Melrose’s team of eight foreign law firms.
A BROAD RANGE OF INDUSTRIES
We advised KLS (Holdings) Limited, an engineering and steel processing group of companies on the restructuring of the group and the voluntary liquidation of KLS pursuant to section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
SPEYSIDE DISTILLERS COMPANY LIMITED
We acted for a Fortune 100 client in the acquisition of a company specialising in holiday letting and property management.
Maclay Group PLC
We completed the business assets and intellectual property acquisition on behalf of our American clients, Probe Holdings Inc, of a Scottish based intellectual property rights company involved in the oil and gas industry.
We advised the shareholders on the sale of the entire issued share capital of the Company.
We advised our long standing client Maclay Group plc (an owner and operator of licensed premises) on all aspects of the terms of an investment and related beer supply arrangements by Tennant Caledonian Breweries (UK) Limited.
THE HOSEASONS GROUP LIMITED
Acted in the acquisition of Cumbrian Cottages which represents more than 2,500 self-catering properties and subsequently strengthened our client’s offering in key locations like the Lake District and Yorkshire.
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meet the Tods Murray corporate Team Building, nurturing and celebrating positive relationships with you and the wider world is what we’re all about. Getting to know your business – who you are, what you want to achieve, and what you need to achieve it – has been the foundation of our success. We’re on your side, a positive and determined team player ready to deal with whatever everyday issues may
occur, but also in a position to take a more independent, longer-term view. Thanks to our balance of experience and fresh blood, we can offer creative, tailored and progressive thinking that matches each client’s legal needs in a world where change is the only constant.
Malcolm Holmes
Jack Gardiner
PARTNER AND Head of Team 0131 656 2344 malcolm.holmes@todsmurray.com Employment history Malcolm joined Tods Murray in 1999, having qualified in 1995. He was assumed as a partner in 2002 and is Head of the Corporate Team. Prior to studying law Malcolm gained an MA (Hons) in history. He specialises in corporate work, including acquisitions and disposals, corporate finance, buy-outs, joint ventures, shareholder issues, limited partnerships, and commercial contracts. He is also a member of the firm’s Hospitality and Leisure team. Recent experience
Professional qualifications
Advising the sellers of the entire issued share capital of Speyside Distillers Company limited.
MA (Hons), LLB, Dip LP, NP
Susan McFadyen
Partner 0141 275 4594 jack.gardiner@todsmurray.com
Partner 0131 656 2360 susan.mcfadyen@todsmurray.com
Jack handles all aspects of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, business sales and purchases, commercial agreements, joint ventures, partnership agreements and shareholder and subscription agreements. He also has extensive experience in the structuring and financing of MBOs, MBIs and IBOs. A large part of Jack’s practice involves cross border work, advising foreign corporations on their setting up in the UK and advising UK Companies on establishing abroad.
Susan undertakes a wide range of corporate and commercial work including mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs, joint ventures, general commercial contracts and intellectual property. She regularly advises family businesses and other SMEs on legal issues affecting their operations and has a particular interest in timeshare and vacation ownership work.
Claire McCracken
Christie Mitchell
Admitted as a Solicitor in 1995 (Scotland)
Leading the Tods Murray team advising Melrose Resources Plc on its £170 million merger with Petroceltic International.
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Senior Associate 0141 275 4591 claire.mccracken@todsmurray.com
Solicitor 0141 275 4584 christie.mitchell@todsmurray.com
Claire has extensive experience acting for both public and private companies in all aspects of corporate and commercial work, including mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts joint ventures and commercial agreements.
Christie is a Solicitor in both our Corporate Team and Hospitality and Leisure Team. She joined Tods Murray in August 2010 and has gained experience acting for private companies in various aspects of corporate and commercial work, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures and commercial contracts.
Tods Murray: DID YOU KNOW?
Despite tough economic market conditions, our team was involved with nearly 40 transactions, with an aggregate value of around £800m
Stephen Chan
Senior Associate 0131 656 2326 stephen.chan@todsmurray.com Stephen’s expertise lies in joint ventures, having contributed to the HM Treasury’s draft guidance note for public sector bodies and has advised on many high profile and significant joint venture transactions in the PFI/PPP, public and private sectors. Stephen is also experienced in handling mergers and acquisitions, capital market issues, management buy-outs and commercial contracts.
Our firm can trace it’s roots as far back to the middle of the 18th century
the present firm was established in 1856
The Team is supported by two Trainee Solicitors who are dedicated to the Corporate Department.
We are a leading independant Scottish Law Firm with a team of 33 Partners and over 150 staff.
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What Our Clients are saying about us
The overall service is
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to the point I would not want to use a n o t h e r l a w f i r m.
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ONLY CL ENT. - Client Quote “This team is businesslike in its approach and offers good value, according to clients, who also note that the quality of service we receive has always been of a high standard. It is primarily involved in the oil and gas, renewables and healthcare sectors. Highlights from the past year include advising FTSE-listed oil and gas company Melrose Resources on the cancellation of a USD200 million share premium account.” Chambers and Partners
“The ‘second-to-none’ team at Tods Murray LLP is a big hit with clients, in terms of ‘quality of work, client engagement and delivery to challenging time frames’.” Legal 500
“This respected team receives praise for its knowledge of limited partnership investment structures and they are always efficient and timely in their delivery.” Chambers and Partners
“Tods Murray’s Corporate Team are recommended for Client Service.” Chambers and Partners
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