Practice areas / services

MFMac is a full-service law firm - catering to individuals, businesses, and public sector organisations - with a broad range of services including:

For businesses

• Agricultural & Rural Property
• Banking & Finance
• Commercial Contracts
• Construction
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Tax
• Data Protection & UK GDPR
• Debt Recovery
• Employment Law for Employers
• Energy
• Health & Safety
• Immigration Law
• Information Technology
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Pensions
• Regulatory & Compliance
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Share Schemes & Incentives
• Your Scots Counsel - Corporate

For real estate

• Build to Rent
• Housebuilding
• Licensing
• Major Projects & Infrastructure
• Planning and Environmental Law
• Property in Pensions
• Property Investment
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Litigation
• Social Housing
• Student Accommodation
• Your Scots Counsel - Real Estate

For individuals & families 

• Buying & Selling Property   
• Caring for the Elderly    
• Executries
• Employment Advice for Employees
• Family Law
• Immigration & Residency
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Managing Wealth & Investments
• Personal Injury    
• Power of Attorney
• Tax
• Trusts
• Wills
• Your Scots Counsel - Private Client     

For public sector Government

• Inquiries
• Local Government
• Parliamentary Affairs
• Procurement
• Public Law
• Subsidy Control

Chambers & Partners Band 1 rankings

• Family/Matrimonial 

Chambers & Partners Bank 2 rankings

• Agricultural & Rural Affairs
• Banking & Finance
• Charities
• Data Protection & Information Law
• Education: Institutions
• Employment
• Healthcare
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property
• Licensing
• Local Government
• Planning
• Product Liability
• Real Estate: £10 million and above
• Restrucutring/Insolvency
• Retail
• Consumer Finance (UK-wide)

Key sectors / industries

MFMac services a broad range of industries, with some of its highest-value clients operating in the following sectors:

• Infrastructure & Capital Projects  
• Real Estate  
• Energy & Renewables  
• Public Sector  
• Manufacturing, Media & Technology  
• Healthcare & Life Sciences   

Work

MFMac is consistently involved in interesting, complex work. Examples include:

• Ministry of Defence: won an exclusive four-year legal contract with the Ministry of Defence in Oct 2024.
• Reappointed to advise the Scottish Government with general property legal services in October 2024 for 2 years, with an option to extend for a further 2.
• Morrisons: advised Morrisons on the Scottish property aspects related to its acquisition of McColls.

Offices / global footprint / expansion

• Headquarters: Edinburgh -  9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh
• Other Office: Capella, 60 York Street, Glasgow 

Insights, internships and other opportunities

MFMAc offers summer placements for university students as well as trainee insight evenings. For secondary school pupils, MFMac runs two programs: Open Work Experience Programme and PRIME Work Experience Program.

Training contract

• 4 Seat traineeship spanning the firm's 4 core divisions: Corporate, Commercial Real Estate, Private Client and Litigation.
• Offers Hybrid working, meaning trainees can work both in the office and remotely (https://www.mfmac.com/join-us/traineeships/)

Corporate social responsibility

• Offered Live: a free career advice helpline for the Scottish exam results week.
• Charity partnerships: Employees vote annually to establish formal partnerships with charities, in 2024 it partnered with Shelter Scotland.
• Panel member of BRAKE Scotland, a charity which provides services to families and victims of road collisions.

Diversity and inclusion

• The firm won a Bronze Talent Inclusion and Diversity Evaluation (TIDE) Award in 2024 by The Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion
• Uses the RARE recruitment system.
• Works with PRIME.