Leaders in their Field at Gillespie Macandrew
Four Partners identified by Chambers 2008

Four Gillespie Macandrew lawyers have been listed as ‘Leaders in the Field’ by Chambers 2008, A Client’s Guide to the Legal Directory.

As well as winning the Scottish Legal Awards’ Law Firm of the Year 2007, Gillespie Macandrew can now also boast the inclusion of four of its top partners into the industry-leading index, an increase from previous years.

A new addition to the directory for 2008 is Litigation partner Andrew Williams who has been recognised as a leader in the field of Licensing.

Head of Private Client, partner Tom Murray specialises in the Charity sector, for which he has been selected as a leader in that particular field. A further two inclusions in Chambers’ Leaders in the Field are Christian Melville and Robert Scott-Dempster, partners in Private Client and Agriculture and Rural Affairs, respectively; all three of whom have featured in previous annual Leader in the Field directories.

Andrew Williams

• Specialises in Licensing, Debt Recovery, Insolvency and General Litigation
• Solicitor to the Scottish Licensed Trade Association
• Acting for Debt Recovery Agencies based in both Scotland and England

Tom Murray

• Specialises in Charities: not for profit sector, securities, tax planning, probate, wills, trusts and estates, funds management, offshore investment, offshore trusts, lobbying
• Chairman of British Hallmarking Council; Clerk to Incorporation of Goldsmiths of City of Edinburgh; Purse Bearer to Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly of Church of Scotland

Christian Melville

• Specialises in Trusts and Tax including asset and estate protection through succession planning, wills, executries, charities and trust creation and administration
• Additionally involved with advising adults with incapacity legislation, with special focus on powers of attorney and guardianship
• Editor of Succession section of Buttersworth ‘Scottish Older Client Law Service’

Robert Scott-Dempster

• Specialises in Agricultural Holdings, Purchase and Sale of Farms and Estates, Forestry, Sportings and Salmon Fishings. Commercial Land Aspects including residential developments, windfarms, minerals and fishfarms
• Speaks at professional seminars and conferences on Agricultural Holdings and Nature Conservation law. 
• Advises on the full range of new Scottish legislation affecting the rural sector

For further information:
Emma McGown, marketing manager Gillespie Macandrew - 0131 260 7533 
Linda McIntyre, Consolidated – 0131 240 6421 / 07718 904734
Joanne Krukowski, Consolidated – 0131 240 6424 / 07743 074571

Notes to editors:

• Gillespie Macandrew LLP is a limited liability partnership, registered number SO300743. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
• Gillespie Macandrew Financial Services Limited, Registered Office: 5 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 8EJ. Company Number SC314586. T: 0131 260 7520 F: 0131 260 7594.
• Gillespie Macandrew Financial Services Limited is an appointed representative of The Asset and Tax Planning Consultancy Limited (Company Number SC271929), having their Registered Office at 2 Murieston Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2JH, which Company is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. GMFS will be supported by additional staff at TATPC Ltd.