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Semple Fraser - Wikipedia

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Semple Fraser LLP

Headquarters	Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
No. of offices	Three
Date founded	1990 (Glasgow)
Company type	Limited liability partnership
Dissolved	2013 (bankruptcy)

Semple Fraser LLP was a Scottish commercial law firm, with over 150 staff, including 21 partners, and offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester. It was founded in Glasgow in 1990 and collapsed in 2013.^[1]

History

The firm was formed in 1990^[2] and began with 20 staff based in an office in Glasgow city centre. The founding partners – Alister Fraser, Paul Haniford, David Semple and Cesidio di Ciacca – took advantage of the recession in the property industry in the 1990s to double the space they occupied and grow the business. The Edinburgh office opened in 1998. The firm became an LLP in June 2004 and a multinational partnership in July 2005.^[3] Semple Fraser opened their first and only English office, in Manchester, during 2009.^[4]^[5]

In 2010, according to the legal referral site Legal 500, Semple Fraser's real estate and environment teams were first-tier in the Scottish legal market.^[6] Chambers, another legal directory, stated in 2011 that Semple Fraser had "the best EU and UK waste law team in Scotland".^[7] Vincent Brown, former head of the firm's waste and environment groups, wrote the legal textbook Environmental Pollution Law and Commercial Transactions (2004), which analysed the impact of environmental legislation on commercial transactions.^[8]

Semple Fraser entered administration in March 2013, due to difficult economic conditions following the onset of the Great Recession.^[9] The bankruptcy resulted in 62 redundancies. Parts of the defunct business were sold to rival firms in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Manchester - including Maclay Murray and Spens (now part of Dentons), Dundas and Wilson (now part of CMS), and Weightmans.^[10]

Main practice areas

Semple Fraser had the following main practice areas:

Banking & Finance
Commercial litigation
Construction
Corporate & Commercial
Corporate Recovery & Insolvency
Employment
Environment & Pollution
Intellectual Property
Planning
Property Finance
Real Estate
Tax

References

^ "No simple answer to collapse of Semple Fraser". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
^ Di Matteo, Larry (2016). Comparative Contract Law: British and American Perspectives. Oxford University Press. p. 393. ISBN 9780198728733.
^ "Multinational status for Semple Fraser". The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. 19 September 2005.
^ "Semple Fraser bids for UK deals with first English office". The Scotsman. 12 October 2009.
^ "Growth means Semple Fraser on the move". Manchester Evening News. 28 October 2008.
^ Legal 500 2010 Archived 4 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ Chambers UK 2011
^ "Review of Environmental Pollution Law and Commercial Transactions". The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. 1 May 2004.
^ "Law firm to enter administration". 6 March 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
^ "Law firm announces 62 job losses". 9 March 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

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