{"id":26233,"date":"2026-03-02T22:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26233"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:33:12","slug":"wjm-opens-in-north-with-burness-paull-transfer-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26233","title":{"rendered":"WJM opens in north with Burness Paull transfer \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fraser-Gillies-Colin-McKenzie-and-Fiona-Clarke-and-Rod-MacLean.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190346 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fraser-Gillies-Colin-McKenzie-and-Fiona-Clarke-and-Rod-MacLean.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190346 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fraser-Gillies-Colin-McKenzie-and-Fiona-Clarke-and-Rod-MacLean.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fraser-Gillies-Colin-McKenzie-and-Fiona-Clarke-and-Rod-MacLean-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fraser-Gillies-Colin-McKenzie-and-Fiona-Clarke-and-Rod-MacLean-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fraser-Gillies-Colin-McKenzie-and-Fiona-Clarke-and-Rod-MacLean-600x411.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fraser Gillies Colin McKenzie, Fiona Clarke and Rod MacLean<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Law firm\u00a0Wright, Johnston &amp; Mackenzie has opened an office in Aberdeen\u2019s Marischal Square, headed up by partners Colin McKenzie and Fiona Clarke who will lead a team of six following an agreed transfer from Burness Paull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fraser Gillies, managing partner at WJM, said: \u201cThis is an exciting development and a great step forward for our firm, strengthening and growing our private client offering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Peter Lawson, chair at Burness Paull, said: \u201cWe are grateful for the many years of excellent service our private client team have provided to our firm and our clients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThey transfer to WJM with our very best wishes. In line with our wider strategy, we will not be continuing to provide private client services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Partner hires<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brodies has added to its corporate crime practice with the appointment of partner <strong>Neil Hay<\/strong>. He joins from Levy &amp; McRae along with legal director <strong>Andrew Seggie<\/strong> and senior solicitor <strong>Hannah Baxter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>BTO has hired <strong>Donna Strong<\/strong> as a partner in the firm\u2019s real estate team, based in its Glasgow office.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#WJM #opens #north #Burness #Paull #transfer #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraser Gillies Colin McKenzie,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[14888,7126,14892,14889,266,265,1518,5241,14893,1566,14891,14890],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}