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LINDSAYS
Telephone: 0131 229 1212 Fax: 0131 229 5611 Email: mail@lindsays.co.uk Website: www.lindsays.co.uk Office locations: Edinburgh (head office), Glasgow, Dundee and North Berwick Deal types undertaken: Early stage/start-up; mergers and acquisitions/ disposals/ MBO/MBIs; refinancings; development finance; project finance; corporate recovery/ reconstruction; collaborations and joint ventures. Lindsays is a full-service Scottish law firm with a highly experienced corporate finance team focusing on the SME/OMB sector. Its expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, MBOs, joint ventures, leveraged finance and venture capital, including raising equity and acquisition finance, plus specialised advice on university and research spin-outs. The team’s client base comprises companies, charities, public sector organisations, educational and financial institutions, and the team is particularly well known for work with high-growth technology businesses and university spin-out companies.
Alastair Keatinge
Position: Partner Age: 57 Qualifications: LLB Career history: Trained and worked with Dundas & Wilson, then Dorman Jeffrey and Balfour & Manson. Lindsays corporate and technology group, partner, 2003. Recent deals: Establishing social enterprises in a number of sectors,various sales/purchases of owner-managed business and SMEs with particular emphasis on the social enterprise, restaurant and retail sectors.
David Lindgren
Position: Partner Age: 52 Qualifications: MA, LLB Career history: Dundas & Wilson; McGrigor Donald; Cameron Markby Hewitt (London); Fyfe Ireland; Lindsays corporate and technology group, partner, 2005. Recent deals: Mergers, sales and acquisitions for private companies; acting for investors in investments and exits.
Alasdair Cummings
Position: Managing partner Age: 51 Qualifications: LLB, DipLP, dual qualified (England & Wales) Career history: Trained Lindsays, then Wilde Sapte, London; returned to Lindsays as partner, 1994; managing partner, January 2011. Recent deals: Merger of professional services business into national accountancy practice; general commercial advice; various legal opinion transactions for London and US instructing agents.
David Wood
Position: Partner and head of corporate and technology Age: 48 Qualifications: LLB, DipLP Career history: Paull & Williamsons, 1990; Dundas & Wilson, 1992; partner, 2001. Lindsays corporate and technology group, partner, 2004. Recent deals: A wide variety of acquisitions, spinouts, outsourcings and fundraisings.
Peter Tweedie
Position: Partner Age: 54 Qualifications: LLB, DipLP, NP Career history: Trained Murray Beith and Murray, 1982-1984; joined Shield & Kyd, 1984, partner since January 1986 – merged with Lindsays 2012, currently partner in Lindsays corporate and technology group. Recent deals: Various company and business sales, acquisitions and restructurings; company formations, regulation and management; partnership formation and advice and general commercial contract advice particularly focused on the retail, property, healthcare and leisure sectors.
MACDONALD HENDERSON SOLICITORS
Standard Buildings, 94 Hope Street, Glasgow G2 6PH Telephone: 0141 248 4957 Fax: 0141 248 8455 Email: db@macdonaldhenderson.co.uk Website: www.macdonaldhenderson.co.uk Office location: Glasgow Deal types undertaken: Early stage/start-up; acquisition/disposal; MBO/MBI/BIMBO; refinancing; development finance; corporate recovery/reconstruction; banking. Since a management buy-out in early 2009, Macdonald Henderson has gone from strength to strength. Under robust new leadership, the firm has increased its turnover by a third, retained clients and built upon its reputation as a niche commercial law firm of choice – boasting expertise in corporate, commercial, litigation, corporate recovery,
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intellectual property and private client areas of practice. The firm confidently flies the flag for Scotland’s SME owner-managers and entrepreneurs. Macdonald Henderson has bucked the trend, recruiting from the industry’s largest firms and blending an exciting mix of young but experienced lawyers. Recognised for what the judging panel described as “a brilliant reinvention”, Macdonald Henderson swept the boards at the Law Awards in 2010 – winning Law Firm of the Year (under 50 fee earners) and Up and Coming Law Firm of the Year. The firm has built on this success and won “Lead Advisor” to Family Business at the Herald Family Business Awards in 2012 and 2013, in a national category open to all advisers (legal and otherwise) in Scotland.
David B Beveridge
Position: Managing director Age: 39 Qualifications: LLB (Hons), DipLP, NP Career history: Trainee, McGrigor Donald, Glasgow and London, 1997; corporate solicitor, Maclay Murray & Spens, Glasgow, 1999; Macdonald Henderson, associate, 2005, director, 2006, managing director, 2009 (to date). Recent deals: Investments – NetIDme (acting for Northern Edge; Cobalt Water Ltd (acting for the private investors); NES (North Electrical Services) Ltd (acting for the private investor); acquisitions (shares) – 2ci (acting for Euro Systems Scotland Ltd); Link Cable Assemblies (share buyback from UK Steel); Livingston Pizza Company (acquisition of Dominos franchise by CP Livi Ltd; Next Level Group Ltd (acquisition of minority), acquisitions (business & assets) – Munro Consulting (from Talent2) Disposals (shares) – Thomsons Coffee Company (minority buyout); Shering Weighing Ltd (to Precia-Molen UK); Quadscot Holdings Ltd (to Pressure Technologies plc); Peter D Stirling Group (to majority shareholders); management buyouts – AMG Group Ltd (acting for Cranew Ltd); Project Halcyon (MBO buyout of professional services firm); Project Clear View (multifunder MBO of construction sector supplier); estructuring – Westside Distribution Ltd; Welch Chemists Ltd; MJD & Sons Scaffolding Ltd; Black Environmental Services Ltd (demerger); Duncryne Ltd; Constance Care Ltd.
Ian Anderson
Position: Commercial property director Age: 40 Qualifications: LLB (Hons), DipLP, NP Career history: Trainee, assistant and associate at Dundas & Wilson; associate at Boyds/HBJ Gateley Wareing; director at Macdonald Henderson. Recent deals: Security work – numerous commercial property transactions for various lenders including Barclays, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale Bank. Leases – many commercial lease transactions involving office, retail and industrial space for clients such as Cameron Pinkerton, Craig Corporate, JP Mackie & Company Ltd, Thomson & Brown Solicitors, Kirkton Property, Rico Logistics, JC Peacock, and Mitchell Engineering. Lease management work – acting for various parties, including European Wellcare, PBR Leisure, Europharma, Failte Food, BLM Law, McLean Buchanan & Wilson, Wells & Co Jewellers and Mega Leisure. Sale/ purchase deals – for clients such as@sipp, Advanced Financial, Bogons Ltd, Campsie Glen Smokehouse Ltd, David Lindsay Architects, Emac Engineering, Oyster Homes, SDSM Properties, Wilson Developments, James Walker, Quadscot, Clydebank Developments and Westside Distribution. Insolvency property work – acting for various parties, including FRP Advisory, French Duncan and BDO.
Louise Hamilton
Position: Associate director Age: 32 Qualifications: LLB (Hons), DipLP, NP Career history: Macdonald Henderson, trainee, 2007; corporate solicitor, 2009; associate director, 2013 (to date). Recent deals: Disposals (shares) – Quadscot Holdings Ltd (to Pressure Technologies plc); director/shareholder exit from Lambert Contracts Ltd (advising director/shareholder ); acquisitions (shares) – AMG Group Ltd MBO (acting for Cranew Ltd); acquisitions (business & assets) – Stuart Chemists (for JP Mackie & Company Ltd); Lombard Medical Technologies plc (Prestwick division) (for Culzean Medical Devices Ltd); inter-group transfer of business and assets for Munro Consulting Group Ltd; disposals (business & assets) JP Mackie Pharmacy, Sinclair Drive (for JP Mackie & Company Ltd); banking – Scottish aspects of assignation of debt between AIB Group (UK) plc and Helical Bar plc (acting for AIB Group (UK) plc); inter-group loan (acting for Daisi Group Ltd); Scottish aspects of loan facility provided by Ravelstone Holdings Ltd (acting for Ziggurat (Claremont Place) LLP); Scottish aspects of loan facility provided by Elkstone Reo Sarl (acting for Ziggurat (Brunswick Village) LLP).