Kirsty is a director and knowledge and development lawyer in our band 1 ranked Banking and Finance team and has over 20 years’ experience as a banking lawyer.
Kirsty provides technical advice and knowledge on new and complex areas of law and commercial practice. She provides client training, firm training, leads on the Burness Paull MT(S)A internal upskilling project and coordinates the working group of firms in Scotland looking at the MT(S)A and the building safety group. She also maintains the Banking team’s precedents and runs comprehensive training programmes for lawyers at all levels in the Banking team.
Kirsty is the course organiser for the Banking Elective on the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Edinburgh and has taught on the diploma for 12 years. Kirsty is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Banking, Company & Insolvency Law Sub-committee.
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