McClure Naismith

Glasgow-based law firm, McClure Naismith, was rated 126th in The Lawyer UK 200 in 2007. However, with an annual turnover of £14 million, critics bemoaned its failure to grow at the rate predicted by outgoing senior partner Kenneth Chrystie.

The core of the business is real estate, litigation and banking, with banking practice particularly assisted by McClure’s London office, which features former Bank of Scotland senior manager John Blackwood. On the litigation side, the firm successfully advised the landlord of a Dundee shopping centre against the Co-operative Wholesale Society and Kwik Save.