Corporate/M&A
UK Guide 2025 : Scotland
Band 5
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(0131) 221 5560About
Provided by Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP
Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP’s experienced Corporate team know you need practical legal and commercial advice, without the risk of incurring unexpected costs.
We help businesses, and their owners, with:
- starting up companies and joint ventures
- attracting and making investment
- mergers, acquisitions and disposals (including MBOs)
- banking
- regulating relationships between shareholders (including fall outs)
- insolvency and corporate recovery
- commercial contracts
- competition law and fair trading
- international transactions
We focus on developing a good relationship with all our clients. As part of that attitude, we aim to operate a "no surprises" and flexible approach to fees.
We can be your wordsmiths for commercial contracts like agency, distribution and supply contracts, or standard terms of business. Avoiding double meanings and ambiguities when drafting a contract means avoiding litigation at the end of it. Standard documents are useful, but you will need bespoke documents for new relationships and circumstances.
If you’re starting up in business or growing a business, we know that a building without foundations does not last. We can help with practical structures tailored for you.
Our insolvency skills help to avoid terminal decline. Our aim is to focus on business viability for the future.
We take pride in providing our clients with pragmatic and clear advice with a view to enabling them to achieve their goals.
Chambers Review
Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie advises clients from a diverse range of market sectors, with a focus on family business clients. The firm has additional activity in the technology sector, acting on a range of investment matters, with recent work on issues involving startups and spin-out companies. The team also provides advice to healthcare entities in respect of partnership and structuring matters.
Work Highlights
- Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie advised Equity Gap across 36 funding rounds completed across their portfolio over the course of 2023.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team is always willing to come up with solutions and is very responsive."
"The team is superb; nothing is ever too much trouble and they just take the pain out of complicated transactions."
"Whenever we raise complex issues, WJM thoroughly studies the project or contract and provides excellent advice."
"They always try to adopt a commercial approach in their advice, balancing the risk from a legal standpoint with the business needs."
"The team is always willing to come up with solutions and is very responsive."
"The team is superb; nothing is ever too much trouble and they just take the pain out of complicated transactions."
"Whenever we raise complex issues, WJM thoroughly studies the project or contract and provides excellent advice."
"They always try to adopt a commercial approach in their advice, balancing the risk from a legal standpoint with the business needs."
Notable Practitioners
Ken Long's corporate practice operates primarily in the technology sector. He works with both startups and larger businesses on a wide range of transaction types.
Ranked Lawyers at
Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP
Scotland
Members
Provided by Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP
Alex Mudie
Alison Marshall
Colin Millar
Head of Department
Emma Arcari
Fergus Hollins
Graham Bell
John Clarke
Kirstin MacDonald
Stephen Cotton
Stephen Grant
Industries
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Banks
Charities / Not for profit
Commercial & Professional services
Energy
Food & Drink producers
Health care
Industrial Engineering
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Private Clients
Real estate
Software & computer services
Sports
Technology, Hardware and Electronics
Utilities