Appointments

Addleshaw Goddard has appointed Ross Nicol as a partner to its commercial team in Scotland. Mr Nicol, formerly of Dentons, specialises in advising clients on intellectual property, information technology, data privacy and broader commercial contracts matters.

Scottish micro investment consultancy CAM Ventures has started the new season with the promotion of key team member Kieran Turner from chef manager to group hospitality manager. The Tayside firm supports two different types of ventures, some which are fully owned and operated by the firm and th

Gibson Kerr has appointed Sara Albizzati as associate and notary public and Susie Alexander as senior solicitor and notary public, to the firm's personal law department. Personal law has become the Edinburgh and Glasgow-based firm’s fastest growing department, helping it to exceed £2 mil

Azets' Stirling office has appointed Anne Smith as a new partner and promoted Alison Webster to director, Catherine Baxter to manager and Jennifer Gowans to assistant manager. Ms Smith, who has over 30 years’ experience, specialises in advising SMEs, owner managers and entrepreneurs on financi

Davidson & Robertson (D&R), the firm of rural surveyors and consultants with offices across Scotland and Northern England, has strengthened its team with the senior appointment of Graeme Ferguson as a director within its Rural and Agency department. Mr Ferguson joins D&R with over 20 yea

Law firm Gunnercooke has strengthened its Scottish presence to six partners, with the appointments of Katy Wedderburn and Alex Innes. Mr Innes joins as a banking & finance partner, with more than 30 years of experience advising clients in England, Wales and Scotland. He is a dual qualified lawye

Advanta Invest has appointed Jon Rebak to its investment committee as an investment consultant and independent member. With over 40 years’ experience in multi-asset portfolio management and fund manager selection, Mr Rebak started his career in 1980 within the private client division of W Gree

Edinburgh-headquartered private bank Hampden & Co has appointed John Glanville as a banking director in its London office. He will report to Mark Prentice, head of banking, and will work alongside the banking teams in Edinburgh and London.

Burness Paull has appointed real estate lawyer David Stewart as a partner, bringing the firm's total to 86 partners across its Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. Mr Stewart joins the firm from Morton Fraser and brings more than 20 years of experience, with a particularly strong background in i

Azets has appointed Graeme Dreghorn, specialist in strategic wealth management, as a new director responsible for growing Azets Wealth Management in Scotland. Mr Dreghorn has gained extensive wealth management experience during a near 20-year career with blue-chip banking and financial businesses su

Wylie & Bisset has promoted Claire Dalrymple to partner of corporate services. Her latest promotion follows last year’s promotion from director of corporate services to associate partner, prior to which Ms Dalrymple’s was promoted from senior audit manager to director of corporate se

Aberdeen-based finance advisory Hutcheon Mearns has announced the launch of Hutcheon Mearns Real Estate, a new service line which will provide clients with independent advice and expertise on their commercial property portfolios. It will be headed up by Iain Landsman, who joins the company as direct

Edinburgh-based waste data analytics platform Topolytics has appointed Fleur Ruckley as its head of implementation. Ms Ruckley has wide experience helping large organisations to understand waste and materials flows and adopt circular economy models. She joins from engineering professional servi

Thorntons has grown its wills, trusts and succession, commercial real estate and residential property teams with a number of new appointments in Dundee, Forfar, St Andrews and Perth. Six new solicitors were brought on board in January and February, in response to a strong growth in demand for servic

The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has appointed a new senior business engagement manager to support the growth of the Highlands and Islands’ bioeconomy. Annelie du Plessis joins IBioIC from Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary specialising in surgical technologies,