Roy Martin QC has been appointed to oversee the independent investigation into former Rangers owner Craig Whyte's claims of links to the club.
The Ibrox board commissioned the probe after Whyte alleged he was involved with the Charles Green consortium's acquisition of Rangers' business and assets last summer.
Whyte was at the helm when the club was forced to call in the administrators in February 2012, before failure to secure an agreement with creditors saw the Glasgow giants consigned to liquidation.
Green has denied any wrongdoing but resigned from his position as chief executive with immediate effect last month amid the "negative publicity" generated by Whyte's claims.
Rangers confirmed at the weekend that commercial director Imran Ahmad had also left the club but declined to comment further on his departure.
A statement from Rangers today read: "Further to previous announcements concerning the investigation by Rangers International Football Club plc ("Rangers") into any connections between Craig Whyte and former and current personnel of Rangers and its subsidiaries, Pinsent Masons, the law firm conducting the investigation, have engaged a Queen's Counsel, Roy Martin QC, to oversee the independent investigation."
Martin is a member of the Terra Firma chamber in Edinburgh.
The chamber’s website states: "Roy Martin is a practising member of the Bar in Scotland, in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland.
"Throughout his career at the Bar, he has practised primarily in the areas of land and administrative law. He has appeared in many of the most significant planning inquiries which have taken place in Scotland, including the Harris Superquarry inquiry, the proposed Gartcosh gas fired power station inquiry, and the Princes Street Galleries inquiry.
"He has acted for developers and promoters in many other court proceedings and inquiries relating to land, planning and the environment, and compulsory purchase.
"Also in 2008, he was appointed as counsel to the ICL Inquiry which concerned a serious explosion in Glasgow in 2004 and which resulted in over forty deaths and injuries and which was called by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Scottish Ministers under the Inquiries Act 2005.
"Since 2009, he has appeared in a range of matters on topics such as the equalisation of retirement ages in company pension schemes, a claim for damages as a result of breach of warranty in a share purchase agreement, and matters concerning conflicts of interest and apparent bias.
"Aside from practice, Roy Martin has served as a Temporary Sheriff and as a chairman (part-time) of Industrial Tribunals, and he is a chairman of Police Appeals Tribunals. He was a member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. He served as a Co-chair of the Forum for Barristers and Advocates of the International Bar Association and of the International Council of Advocates and Barristers. He is an Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow School of Law, and has been elected as an Honorary Member of the Australian Bar Association and called as a Bencher of Middle Temple.
"He was a Governor of Loretto School between 2002 and 2012, and the Chairman of the Governing Body between 2007 and 2012."
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