Shepherd and Wedderburn has promoted five of its lawyers to partner, six to legal director and six to associate - 10 of whom began their legal careers as trainees of the firm.
The promotions will take effect on 1 May.
The newly-assumed partners are Alison Rochester (media and technology), Susan Swan (infrastructure), Leigh Herd (property and infrastructure disputes), Stephanie Hepburn (commercial disputes) and Nathaniel Buckingham (property and infrastructure disputes).
Rochester, who joined the firm as a trainee, leads the law firm's trade and commerce team, focusing on international trade matters and complex commercial contracts, particularly for regulated businesses.
Swan, who trained at Shepherd and Wedderburn, is a core member of the firm’s clean energy team, providing advice on grid, regulation and commercial contracts.
Herd joined the firm as a trainee in 2012. She specialises in contentious construction, with experience across construction, engineering and major project disputes, and through a variety of dispute resolution forums.
Hepburn joined in 2014 and specialises in resolving property disputes, private client disputes and contentious executries.
Buckingham is a chartered civil engineer, who worked for an international consultancy before re-qualifying in law and joining Shepherd and Wedderburn as a trainee in 2013.
Amie Bain (pensions), Lisa Renwick (English property), Daniel Bain (property and infrastructure disputes), Christopher Garden (commercial disputes), Phil Harris (private wealth and tax) and John Townsend (Glasgow property) have been promoted to legal director.
Amie Bain joined as a trainee in 2009 and specialises in pensions law, founding the firm’s pensions team in Glasgow.
Renwick joined the firm’s English property unit in 2013. She is dual qualified in Scotland and England and acts for lenders, land promoters and investors in a range of asset classes.
Daniel Bain, who trained at Shepherd and Wedderburn and has been with the firm since 2003, specialises in property dispute resolution, focusing on commercial property and telecoms property disputes.
Garden joined as a trainee in 2010. Qualified in Scotland and England and Wales, he specialises in contentious insolvency, commercial dispute resolution, including contract and professional negligence, and resolving disputes for private clients.
Harris joined the Shepherd and Wedderburn private wealth and tax team in 2019 as a senior associate after 25 years in private practice.
Townsend joined in 2011 as a trainee. His work revolves around the commercial property sector, with a focus on office and retail property and renewable energy developments.
In addition, Gillian Buchanan (Edinburgh/Aberdeen property), Lily Manser (commercial disputes), Katie McNab (rural), Thomas Keenan (banking and finance), Matthew Lamberton (English property) and Daniel MacKinnon (Glasgow property) will become associates.
Andrew Blain, Shepherd and Wedderburn’s managing partner, said: “These well-deserved promotions recognise our lawyers’ specialist expertise, their knowledge and understanding of the sectors in which they operate, and their ongoing commitment to building relationships of trust with our clients, supporting them with legal services of the highest quality.”
The Scottish-headquartered firm has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, London and Dublin.
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