Bio

Stuart is an award winning lawyer, a co-founder of the firm and became its Senior Partner on its tenth anniversary in 2015. Stuart is still very actively involved with client work at MBM Commercial and divides his time between his Scottish and London client bases. Acting as legal adviser to numerous investors, technology companies, entrepreneurs and business owners, Stuart regularly deals with a wide range of corporate, corporate finance and M&A deals. He is often retained to help clients plan ahead for specific events, such as a major funding round or company sale. Stuart is regularly involved in deals involving VC funds, mezzanine debt providers, overseas acquirers, trade investors, business angel syndicates and academic institutions. He has a Masters Degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law and is a regular guest speaker at events and seminars on investments, deal-making and complex commercial contract issues. This has included running Investment Masterclasses for Scottish Enterprise and its cohort intakes of high growth companies as well as running external CPD seminars for third party lawyers on corporate deal-making and complex contract negotiation issues. During the Scottish Independence and Brexit Referendums Stuart ran a series of events in conjunction with Edinburgh University to explore the impact of a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ vote on entrepreneurial businesses. More recently Stuart has organised and chaired ‘Series B and Beyond’ investment conferences in Edinburgh and London.