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A cross-unit team at Shepherd & Wedderburn has been instrumental in assisting US inward investor Mangata Edge with concluding investment documentation for a significant manufacturing facility, announced by Scottish Enterprise. 

We are delighted to have supported the management team of Graeme Duncan and James Burnett in connection with their acquisition of Murray Machinery Ltd. 

Andrew Blain has been re-elected by the partners of the firm to serve a second term as Managing Partner of Shepherd and Wedderburn from 1 May 2023.

We are delighted to have supported our client Caledonia Homes (Scotland) Limited, a timber kit manufacturer based in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, in its sale to Scotia Homes, a real estate developer based in the North and North East of Scotland.

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Corporate Finance team has advised Douglas and Iain Anderson, the joint managing directors of specialist plant hire company GAP Group Limited, in the sale of their separately owned vehicle hire company to international hire giant SIXT. 

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Smarter Working team was named Support Team of the Year at the 2022 Scottish Legal Awards.

Fraser Mitchell has re-joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a Partner in the planning team, bringing to the firm and its clients almost two decades’ planning expertise, with a particular focus on the housebuilding, commercial property and clean energy sectors.

Shepherd and Wedderburn is bolstering its top-ranked rural team with the addition of six lawyers including accredited agricultural law specialists Petra Grunenberg and Ellen Eunson.

Peter Smith has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a Commercial Property Partner, heading the firm’s real estate team in the Aberdeen office and bringing 19 years’ expertise advising clients in the real estate sector.