Licensing & Leisure

What They Say About Us

Licensing

"The Harper Macleod LLP team handles licensing work for major clients such as William Hill, Scottish & Newcastle and BP Express Shopping, as well as a number of SLTA members".

The Legal 500, 2007

"The 'friendly and efficient' group at this firm offers a full-service approach to licensing, catering to a client base that includes some of the industry's biggest names. Interviewees particularly value the firm's 'good grasp of the Scottish market and the Scottish licensed trade' and the way that it 'acts rapidly and thoroughly' on time-sensitive licensing concerns. As well as being sole advisers to bookmakers William Hill, the lawyers act as exclusive counsel to the tenanted pub estate of Belhaven Brewery and have been instructed to deal with liquor-licensing matters for BP Express Shopping. The group also acts for the Scottish Licensed Trade Association and Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises across all of its estate in Scotland. Betting and gaming specialist Rod McKenzie is considered to be the group's standout lawyer. Noted as "'ne of the best in the business,' he advises William Hill on all matters relating to its Scottish estate and is involved in transferring its English and Scottish licences to one single operating company prior to the introduction of the Gambling Act 2005."

 Chambers UK, 2008