Blackadders

Blackadders has a national reputation as a regional heavyweight in the Scottish legal market. This reputation has been built by the firm’s people, who number over 150. Blackadders has the resource, technical expertise, business acumen and dedication to service required to meet the legal needs of clients operating in a complex, competitive, commercial environment.

The firm’s strategic focus on developing its service to business clients, including many of the highest profile organisations in Tayside and across Scotland, has resulted in substantial planned expansion of the corporate and commercial department in recent years. Funding rounds require efficient management of legal due diligence and the negotiations required to complete successfully - a challenge relished by the corporate team. Expertise in intellectual property, employment law, property and litigation combine with the firm’s “solid corporate capabilities”* to ensure that investor clients and companies going through the investment process receive legal support that is commercially focussed, relevant and timely.

Blackadders is a full service firm that also has specialists dedicated to meeting clients’ personal legal and financial needs. The firm’s private client team – finalist in the 2008 Scottish Legal Awards – works closely with the firm’s financial advisers – ranked amongst the top 10 IFAs in Scotland – to ensure that wealthy individuals’ tax, inheritance and financial planning meets their objectives and maximises potential.

Campbell Clark and Sandy Meiklejohn are the partners who lead the corporate and commercial team at Blackadders. Both have a wealth of deal experience and call on the assistance of the other lawyers in their team to ensure that deals are appropriately resourced.

* The 2007 Legal 500 review of the UK’s foremost law firms