Craig Stirling > Davidson Chalmers Stewart > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Davidson Chalmers Stewart
12 HOPE STREET
EDINBURGH
EH2 4DB
United Kingdom

Work Department

Corporate.

Position

Partner and head of the firm’s corporate department, dealing with a wide variety of corporate finance and general corporate matters. Particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures and corporate reconstructions. Clients come from a wide range of sectors, but with an emphasis on renewables, healthcare and technology.

Career

Trained Thorntons WS 1995-97; corporate assistant Bird Semple 1997-2000; corporate assistant/associate McGrigors 2000-06; partner Davidson Chalmers Stewart LLP 2006 to date.

Education

Currie High School; Dundee University (1995).

Leisure

Road cycling.

Lawyer Rankings

Scotland > Public sector > Health

Davidson Chalmers Stewart is best known for its general medical and dental practice work with an emphasis on related transactional, corporate and commercial issues, most notably sales and acquisitions. Practice co-head Andy Drane has particular experience advising primary care medical operators on property law and regulatory issues, while co-head Craig Stirling leads on corporate and commercial work.

Scotland > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow

Offering clients ‘commercially aware and completely genuine’ corporate advice, the team at Davidson Chalmers Stewart has an excellent reputation in the Scottish and UK market, particularly for M&A work in the healthcare and renewables sectors. Practice head Craig Stirling’s practice focuses primarily on complex M&A and private equity transactions. Stephen Smith departed to set up private practice, Harty & Smith, in August 2023.