Senior Associate

Duncan Cathie

Duncan joined Brodies as a trainee in 2010, and qualified in July 2012. He has experience in a broad spectrum of corporate work, regularly advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, investments, commercial contracts and international franchising, as well as general company and corporate law issues.

Secondment experience working in-house with a large corporate client strengthened Duncan's understanding of his clients' needs.

Living Brodies' values

Clients appreciate Duncan's combination of pragmatic advice, commercial awareness and collaborative manner.

Highlights

Gained experience working in-house on secondment with a large corporate client.
Ranked as an Associate to Watch for Franchising by Chambers UK 2023.
Recognised as a Recommended Individual for Corporate and Commercial (Edinburgh and Glasgow) by Legal 500 UK 2023.

Duncan is super-responsive, efficient, unflappable, very imaginative and creative. He has the required steel under a charming and cheerful exterior.

Chambers UK 2024

Duncan provides us with a prompt response to our needs.

Chambers UK 2024

I'm struck by the amount of data he remembers, and he has great inside knowledge.

Chambers UK 2024

Duncan is very responsive and his output is of a consistently high standard.

Chambers UK 2024

Duncan Cathie

Duncan Cathie

Living Brodies' values

Highlights

Enlightened Thinking from Duncan

So, you want to be a Franchisor...

Advising on the sale of Complete Energy Controls, Scotland's leading building management systems (BMS) and remote energy management provider, to learnd Limited.

Advising Robin Forsyth on his sale of FuseBox to ROBUS Lighting, a leading international LED lighting brand.

Advising Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) in relation to its further investment in Icelandic travel technology company Dohop.

Acted as lead counsel to a UK telecommunications service provider as borrower under £165,000,000 secured and unsecured loan notes with an alternative asset management and investment firm.

Project Gigabit - what do you need to know when bidding for public broadband infrastructure funding?

Advising Seafood Connection, a leading multinational supplier of frozen seafood products, on its acquisition of Grimsby-based Northcoast Seafoods Ltd

Acting for Indaver UK Limited in its purchase of BIP Chemical Holdings Limited and BIP Environmental Limited

Advising Borderlink Broadband on raising an investment from funds controlled by Gresham House Plc

Franchising – what do you need to know when going international? The franchisee's perspective

Advising the UK's largest digital transformation and IT consultancy business on its sale to GlobalLogic Inc, representing one of the largest private company sales in Scotland in 2020

Franchising – what do you need to know when going international? The franchisor's perspective.

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