Burness Paull is an independent commercial law firm working with leading organisations across the UK and internationally. The firm employs more than 700 people, including 90 partners, across its offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Mission Statement
As a truly independent law firm operating in a fast moving and challenging global landscape, we have complete licence to shape our culture and determine our values in a way that sustainably supports the needs of our people, our clients, our wider community and the environment.
Services Offered
Intellectual Property
Commercial and technology contracts
Investment and scaling advice
Immigration and employment
Data privacy and cyber security
Health & safety
Litigation
Key Contacts
Callum Sinclair
Head of Technology & Commercial
Phone: 07391 405 414
Linzi Caldwell
Marketing Manager
Phone: 07525 038 531
Involvement in the Space Sector
From advising growing businesses creating world class tech to being involved in the development of the Sutherland Spaceport project, we’ve long been part of the ecosystem providing legal advice across a range of business areas including funding & investment, IP protection, employment & immigration and cyber & data privacy.
Company Culture and Values
Our human and high-performing ethos puts individuality, openness, and excellence at the core of our firm. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and the promotion of a workplace culture where everyone can succeed.
Connecting with our people, clients and wider communities is intrinsic to who we are and at the heart of our offering is the Burness Paull Foundation, a registered charity established in 2016 and funded by the firm.
Success Stories or Case Studies
Whilst we have worked on multiple projects in the sector including the Sutherland Spaceport project and supporting investment raises for space sector companies, we are perhaps proudest of our work with early stage and scaling businesses through accelerators like the Smart Things Accelerator Centre (STAC) in Skypark in Glasgow – now the largest IoT accelerator in Europe. As well as supporting STAC as a founding partner, we have helped multiple of the now 65 or so scaling SME businesses with a range of transactional and advisory work. A number of those businesses in hardware and data will be highly relevant to the space sector, and the momentum we now have shows what we can do supporting exciting scaling networks from a standing start – something we intend to repeat as part of our involvement with the Space Network.
Company Milestones
Burness Paull is a product of a highly successful merger in 2012 between legacy firms, Burness in the central belt of Scotland and Paull & Williamsons in Aberdeen. Both firms were leading independent firms in Scotland, and since then the firm has grown strongly across a full service corporate, commercial and private client service. In recent years, the firm has continued to expand its full UK offering (covering Scots and English law across practice areas), and its international work as part of “best in market” independent international law firm alliances, Lex Mundi and TagLaw.
Every day we look to our networks and partnerships to inspire us to think more creatively about how we improve our client and employee experience, as we continue to invest in the next generation of our people and future leaders. We have recently announced the next exciting chapter of our collaboration with Scottish Ballet as its official Next Generation Partner.
Future Collaboration with Space Network
For organisations on a growth journey there are many legal and regulatory matters to navigate while striving to achieve business objectives, even more so in a rapidly developing sector such as space, with the constant innovations – and unknowns – this brings. We enjoy working with ambitious organisations – large and small – who have a vision, and helping them realise their goals, whatever they might be.
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Website Links
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Testimonials / Quotes
"The Burness Paull team are always able to address complex matters for us. They take their time to understand our business so that they can apply that knowledge to each of our legal queries."
"They have broad expertise. I can put almost any legal question to them and I receive a fast, high-quality and considered answer."
"Their deep understanding of a technical sector, coupled with their growing knowledge of our business, positions them well to handle complex and sophisticated matters."
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