UK Guide 2026 : Scotland
Ranked Individuals
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The Corporate Restructuring and Recovery team of lawyers has exceptional experience in the sector including:
We have one of the largest and most established corporate, restructuring and recovery teams in Scotland. All partners within the core team are ranked within their field by the legal directories and the team is led by Scotland’s Star Individual, Yvonne Brady (Chambers 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016), placing the team in an unrivalled position within the market.
Outwith our core team, we are supported by a team of experts who have extensive experience in all aspects of restructuring and insolvency. With over 45 fee earners with UK wide corporate, banking, insolvency and contentious experience ready to assist where required, we are able to quickly understand our clients’ position and provide commercial advice in the short timeframes required.
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Shepherd and Wedderburn has a specialist restructuring team that boasts international capabilities. It offers particular expertise in the financial services, retail, and hotel and leisure sectors, acting for a strong client base of leading businesses, financial institutions and accounting firms.
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Shepherd and Wedderburn acted for the liquidators of Oban Phoenix Cinema, assisting with a number of issues including the sale of the venue.
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Shepherd and Wedderburn are a large firm with excellent experience across different practice areas. They have a number of highly skilled individuals and offer good strength and depth.
Shepherd and Wedderburn provide invaluable support and they have deep knowledge and understanding of our issues.
They offer excellent knowledge of the local Scottish market. They are extremely responsive to our needs and are available at short notice to get involved in what can be time-consuming, complex issues.
The team has a client-focused mentality.
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Fiona McKerrell is head of the restructuring and insolvency department of Shepherd and Wedderburn. She has a distinguished background of providing sound counsel on restructuring assignments and acting for distressed companies and directors. Much of her work has cross-border dimensions.
Fiona is an excellent lawyer who is highly experienced and easy to work with.
Fiona is faultless. She gets the right commercial answer with technical support I can rely on.
Fiona delivers an excellent service and provides excellent advice to clients which is very clear. This allows decisions to be made on an informed manner, often within tight timeframes.
Fiona is highly adaptive, commercially focused and has very strong technical knowledge.
Fiona is a very experienced and well-respected operator in the Scottish insolvency market. She has a wealth of experience and provides pragmatic, commercial advice.
We received excellent advice from Gillian. She is a very clear thinker who is concise in her advice.
Gillian is very commercial and shows good understanding when weighing up the pros and cons of taking a case forward.
Gillian is wonderful. She is an expert in insolvency litigation and she is meticulous with details.
Restructuring/Insolvency
Restructuring/Insolvency
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Hamish Patrick
John Gallacher
Serena Weir
Laura McMillan
Andrew Scott
Allana Sweeney
Susanne Knowles
Yvonne Brady
Head of Department
Gillian Carty
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