Lorne D Crerar

Practice Areas

Professor Lorne Crerar CBE FRSE is one of the two founding partners of the firm and is the firm’s Chairman. Lorne is the firm’s Senior Partner in the Banking & Finance and Sports Sector Groups and is an active member of the Public Sector Group. He is responsible for the creation and implementation of the firm’s ongoing strategic policy.

Lorne has wide experience of the operations of the public sector and has been appointed by The Scottish Government to undertake a number of independent reviews.

A rugby player and referee in his day, Lorne is a former Chairman of the European Rugby Cup Tournament (EPCR) and was also a Judicial Officer at four Rugby World Cups and part of the judicial team at the inaugural Rugby 7s tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympics. For over 20 years he was Chairman of the Discipline Panels for the SRU, European Rugby Cup and 6Nations. He was an IRB "elite judge" and was also the Judicial Officer for the Rugby World Cup Finals in both 2015 and 2011.

In July 2017, the Scottish Rugby Board awarded Lorne 'Emeritus' status on the Scottish Rugby Discipline Panel in recognition of his 'tremendous service to the game'.

Publications

Lorne is author of, “The Law of Banking in Scotland”, published by Butterworths in 1997 and 2007 (2nd edition).

Personal

Lorne was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday 2019 Honours List for his contribution to “economic and community development” in Scotland.

In 2021 he was elected as a Fellow of the RSE, Scotland’s prestigious National Academy, joining the RSE’s roll of around 1,600 leading thinkers and practitioners from Scotland and beyond.

Lorne is a Trustee of Scotland’s largest independent grant-making trust, The Robertson Trust. In 2018, he was the independent member of the selection panel that appointed the Chief Constable for Police Scotland.