Brodies has opened a new office in Inverness, at Clava House in the Cradlehall Business Park.
In the past 12 months, the law firm has worked with local businesses, organisations and individuals including Inverness College, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Lerwick Port Authority and Stornoway Port Authority.
The firm acted for clients in the renewable energy sector, including wind farms on Shetland and the Orkney Islands Council community wind farm project, which is worth an estimated £371m to the local economy.
In the food and drink sector, Brodies was appointed by the Tomatin Distillery Company to provide legal and commercial advice to support a new market access strategy in the US.
The firm also assisted care home provider Parklands Group in its buyout of British growth fund equity - and the refinancing of its facilities - which let it develop a new multi-million-pound care project in Inverness.
Brodies managing partner Nick Scott said: "We are grateful to our clients in the Highlands and Islands for their continued support and for seeking the advice of our lawyers on new and interesting instructions, as well as their day-to-day business, and personal and family matters.
"With our new office in Inverness, our clients will benefit from greater proximity to our lawyers, offering a state-of-the-art location to meet in person, whilst also providing enhanced technical capabilities that will, amongst other things, support virtual court hearings.
"We have taken many of the learnings from our new Capital Square office in Edinburgh, and considered them in the fit out of our Inverness office to support and optimise colleague wellbeing."
With its new office, Brodies aims to grow from its existing team of 12 lawyers currently based in the Highlands and Islands.
Earlier this year, Highlands-based family and child law specialist Sarah Lilley was promoted to partner.
Having joined the firm in 2020, she has more than 14 years' experience in family and child law, 10 of which have been spent working with clients in and around Inverness.
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