LAW firm Lindsays has announced a merger with Edinburgh-based legal practice, Hadden Rankin.
The merger will see all Hadden Rankin staff transfer to Lindsays, with no redundancies.
Hadden Rankin’s founding partners - Ross Hadden and Dot Rankin - will become partners at Lindsays, which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.
Hadden Rankin has 18 staff including the two partners and, pre-merger, Lindsays had 246 staff including 37 partners.
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Lindsays said Hadden Rankin’s expertise will help provide clients with the wider range of legal services available at Lindsays, as well as boosting Lindsays’ presence in the property and private client markets.
The move marks Lindsays’ latest acquisition in a programme of strategic expansion over 10 years, which has included similar mergers with MacLachlan & MacKenzie, Shield & Kyd, RSB Macdonald and, last year, Aitken Nairn.
Alasdair Cummings, Lindsays’ managing partner, said that the Hadden Rankin practice “provides a strong fit” with Lindsays.
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He said: “Like Lindsays, Hadden Rankin has focussed on relationship-building to expand its client base.”
Ross Hadden said: “It is exciting for us to be joining Lindsays, allowing us to provide our clients with a much wider range of legal services and our staff with tremendous career opportunities.”
Dot Rankin also welcomed the move: “From the moment we started talking to Lindsays we found them to be a firm which mirrors our core ethos of providing excellent client service to our clients.”
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