Aberdeen Considine moves in Edinburgh as £3m expansion completes

Legal firm Aberdein Considine has opened a new Edinburgh headquarters as it completes a £3m expansion programme across Scotland.

The firm, which launched in Aberdeen in 1981, has created 110 new jobs as it looks to enhance its range of property, legal and financial services across the country. Its new Edinburgh base, in Multrees Walk, just off St Andrew Square, is the firm’s seventh new site in 24 months, during which it has also invested in Glasgow and Stirling, as well as in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, its first office south of the border.

Managing Partner Jacqueline Law said the new Edinburgh office, which will eventually house up to 40 legal staff, marks a significant milestone for the business.

“We are very excited to be able to offer our clients a full range of legal services from a prime location in the capital city,” she commented.

“With Multrees Walk, Waterloo Street in Glasgow, Bon-Accord Crescent in Aberdeen and Newcastle, we now have four major legal offices from which to offer our clients truly national coverage.

“We have added talented and experienced commercial and private client legal teams in these offices to service our existing and prospective clients.

“We have also added further specialisms into our UK-wide lender services team due to an increase in the volume and range of complex, non-standard mortgage litigation, asset and debt recovery cases that the firm is handling.

“All of these sectors represent significant opportunities for Aberdein Considine across Scotland and beyond.”

The firm has also announced several promotions bringing non-lawyers into senior, typically partner-held, roles within the business. Corporate benefits director Peter Mutch has been added to the business’s senior board, joining chief financial officer John Perry and financial services director Allan Gardner.

Six further members of senior management take up key roles, including national estate agency director Alan Cumming, national lettings director Adrian Sangster and director of marketing Ryan Crighton.