Law firm Lindsays has announced a merger with Edinburgh-based legal practice Hadden Rankin.
Founding partners Ross Hadden and Dot Rankin will become partners at Lindsays and the merger on 28th October will transfer all Hadden Rankin staff over with no redundancies.
Hadden Rankin has expertise in property and private client services. Lindsays, which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, previously took over MacLachlan & MacKenzie in 2012, Shield & Kyd in 2012, RSB Macdonald in 2015 and Aitken Nairn in 2018.
Alasdair Cummings, Lindsays’ managing partner, said: “We’re delighted to continue our growth through this merger with Hadden Rankin. Ross and Dot have built an excellent practice which provides a strong fit with Lindsays, and we welcome them to our partnership.
“Like Lindsays, Hadden Rankin has focussed on relationship-building to expand its client base. Throughout Lindsays’ long history we have constantly adapted and evolved, but our core ethos - to provide expert, accessible and reliable lawyers - has endured, and Ross and Dot will play a key part in continuing this philosophy when looking after clients’ personal, family or business affairs.”
Hadden Rankin’s property management business, HRPM Ltd, will not be merging with Lindsays and will continue as a standalone business under the same team as before.
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.”
Rankin added: “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. We are delighted to be joining them.”
