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Burness is delighted to be a Corporate Partner of LINC Scotland.

We deliver

At Burness, we take delivery seriously. It's our business to find creative and commercial legal solutions to take our clients' business forward. Learning as much as possible about the sector in which our clients operate and their individual service requirements is a core part of how we work. We anticipate our clients' needs rather than just responding to them.

Vastly experienced and multi-disciplined team

Our Corporate and Commercial team comprises vastly experienced multi-disciplined lawyers who work regularly with entrepreneurs, high growth companies and investors alike. Our experience includes advising on matters such as:

  • Company formation and spin-outs
  • Legal due diligence
  • Equity investments
  • Shareholders' agreements
  • Employment and service contracts
  • EIS
  • Commercial contracts
  • Protection and commercialisation of intellectual property rights

We work with high growth companies at every stage of their development

One of our key strengths is advising companies with every aspect of their growth strategy, from fundraisings, acquisitions and disposals to flotations/IPOs and exits. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver a no nonsense service of the highest quality, with commercial and understandable advice.

Our solutions are pragmatic and tailored; we focus on the issues worth addressing rather than point scoring; and we genuinely enjoy working with our clients to achieve the best possible outcomes.

We have strong relationships with the Scottish investor community

  • We have also developed over many years strong relationships with a substantial proportion of the Scottish investor community
  • We regularly advise Scottish Enterprise's Co-Investment Fund and other investors on equity investments
  • We have experience in establishing business angel groups and advising them on all aspects of their investments
  • We are always pleased to effect introductions to our investor contacts and members of the non-executive director community 

Relationships are key to success

We seek to develop long lasting relationships with all of our clients and appreciate that a sound understanding of their business is key to being able to deliver success. We understand the importance of every transaction undertaken by our clients and seek to work closely with our clients to guide them through the legal process.

Value for money

In this day and age we appreciate that cost is of crucial importance to our clients, particularly in the earlier stages of a company's development. We deliver a value in everything we do and we offer flexible and fixed feeing arrangements to suit the individual needs of each of our clients.

About Burness

Burness LLP is one of Scotland's premier law firms:

  • We are Regional/National Law Firm of the Year (The Lawyer Awards 2008) and Regional Law Firm of the Year - UK (ACQ Country Awards 2009);
  • We have 40 partners and employ more than 230 people across offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow; and
  • We are a full service law firm, with superb specialists in all areas that may be relevant to assisting companies and investors, including corporate finance, employment, pensions, employee incentives/share options, property, banking and finance, commercial contracts and IT/IP.

To find out more, please visit our website here. (Opens in a new browser window)

Key contacts

Chris Gotts, Partner

+44 (0) 131 473 6020

chris.gotts@burness.co.uk

            Chris Gotts

 

David Goodbrand, Partner

+44 (0) 131 473 6125

david.goodbrand@burness.co.uk

David Goodbrand

 

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