Donald Lawrie Morrison
Associate
Donald Lawrie Morrison is an associate in the firm’s global Corporate Practice, admitted in Scotland and based in the London office.
Donald works with clients across a diverse range of sectors, with experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, group reorganisations, business funding and general day-to-day corporate law advisory matters.
- Acted for the owners of a major North Sea natural gas transportation and processing system in a wide-ranging corporate reorganisation and simplification of the group structure.
- Co-managed an internal group reorganisation project for the UK’s foremost leather manufacturer, under which multiple separate operating subsidiaries were consolidated into one single operating company.
- Advising an oil and gas offshore services company on a multijurisdictional intragroup reorganisation, including changes to the group structure, intragroup debt rationalisation, debt capitalisation, and cash repatriation.
- Acted for a global offshore drilling contractor with its equity investment in a provider of specialist crane and lifting technology to the offshore industry.
- Co-managed the sale of a technology outsourcing business specialising in applications and databases for clinical trials to a leading San Francisco-based clinical trial technology company.
- Acted for a technology company specialising in technologies for law enforcement, social media and cloud companies to find and block harmful content, in relation to a Series A equity investment.
- Acted for the owners of a major holiday parks group as part of its sale to one of the leading UK leisure operators.
Education
- Robert Gordon University, Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, (Distinction), 2016
- Robert Gordon University, LL.B., (Accelerated), 2015
Admissions
- Scotland, 2019
Memberships and Affiliations
- Member of the Law Society of Scotland, 2019