Maclay Murray & Spens has promoted four staff to partner level and created ten new associates across its four offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and London.

Brian Moore,becomes a corporate partner in the firm’s Edinburgh office, together with Alan Stewart, who becomes a partner in the Property department. Solicitors Gavin Buchan, Lorna Burnett, Amelia Horvath, Louise Adamson, Carolyn Burns, Alan Eccles and Sarah Peock become associates across the firm's Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. The remaining appointments have been made in London.

“It is highly satisfactory to be able to recognise and reward the efforts of such a capable group of lawyers, through these well deserved promotions. As a firm committed to profitable growth, it is particularly significant that half of these lawyers joined us as trainees," said Magnus Swanson, chief executive of Maclays.