{"id":2641,"date":"2026-03-30T01:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:21:47","slug":"andy-hall-takes-lead-role-at-shepherd-wedderburn-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"Andy Hall takes lead role at Shepherd + Wedderburn \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Andy Hall: changes<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shepherd and Wedderburn has announced that Andy Hall will succeed Andrew Blain as managing partner of the Scotland-based law firm on 1 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Hall joined the firm as a trainee and later specialised in real estate development, joining the partnership in 2003 and assuming the role of head of the firm\u2019s property and infrastructure group in 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He said: \u201cAndrew has taken the firm from strength to strength, and I am excited and honoured to succeed him. I have been with the firm since I secured a traineeship here in 1993, and in that time, it has changed dramatically in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Andrew Blain assumed the role of managing partner in May 2019. Under his leadership, the firm has delivered six consecutive years of revenue growth and a 57% increase in profits.  Over the same period, the firm has grown to 91 partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He said: \u201cIt has been a great privilege to lead the firm over the last seven years. I want to thank our clients and colleagues for their support over that period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe last seven years have brought challenge \u2013 I most certainly did not have a global pandemic in my mind when I took over in May 2019 \u2013 and opportunity. I am pleased that we have taken many of those opportunities and that the firm is in a strong position, having grown significantly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI know that Andy will drive the firm forward with the same vision, energy and acumen with which he has led our property and infrastructure team since 2013, and I look forward to supporting Andy and our board as we look to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the year to the end of April last year, S+W reported a 10% increase in turnover and a 20% rise in net profits to \u00a336.1 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Since then, three new partners have joined the firm: Graham Young (Project Finance), Donald Smith (Corporate Finance) and Marcus Wright (English Real Estate).<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Andy #Hall #takes #lead #role #Shepherd #Wedderburn #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Hall: changes Shepherd and Wedderburn has announced that Andy Hall will succeed Andrew Blain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[6169,6172,6170,272,306,6173,910,1283,6174,6171,2610,6175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}