Law firm insists it can thrive in Scotland - Business Quarter Scotland

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A new full service legal firm has bucked the trend of disappearing Scottish law firms by launching in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Gilson Gray has taken a year of planning and negotiation to set up, attracting a team of specialists from across the Scottish legal, property and financial sectors. The senior figures are Glen Gilson, a private client lawyer previously on the senior management team at HBJ Gateley, and Matthew Gray, former head of property and legal services at Pagan Osborne. Glen has been appointed managing partner while Matthew, anon-lawyer is managing director of Gilson Gray Property Services. Gilson Gray have recruited nine solicitor partners and four senior executives to develop the business’s legal, property and financial service divisions. “We will provide the same full service technical expertise as any of the largest law firms in Scotland. We believe, however, that we can offer a more cost effective solution.” said Gilson. The team includes Andrew Fleetwood, Iain Clark, Derek Hamill, Murray Stewart, Graham Millar, Steven Jansch, David Alexander, Jonathan Williams and finance director Gerry Cockburn. Many of the Gilson Gray lawyers, based at 29 Rutland Square, Edinburgh, and 160 West George Street, Glasgow, are dual qualified in both Scottish and English law.