Anderson Strathern

Lawyers Not disclosed
Turnover £23 million
Offices 4

With origins going back to the 1740s, Anderson Strathern numbers among its earliest partners John Davidson, co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, who is reputed to have regularly dispatched crates of whisky to favoured clients.

Such activities remain firmly in the past and the firm today focuses its attention in areas such as agriculture and rural affairs — it has a long-standing relationship with the Buccleuch family, an aristocratic Highland family who own estates in central Scotland, the Scottish Borders and rural Northamptonshire — clinical negligence, commercial property, education, energy and renewables, human rights, and the public sector. Clients include private individuals, companies, government departments, education establishments and public sector bodies.

Recent activity includes working with the fintech company Aveni on a £2.75 million investment deal and helping the medtech firm Carcinotech source £1.6 million from investors, including Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish angel investment outfit Tricapital.