The MPF is the world's leading association of managing partners from across the spectrum of professional service firms. In Scotland we have created a local organisation that provides top-calibre educational and networking opportunities for all its members. By introducing thought-provoking and cutting-edge best practices that are transportable from one sector to another, we are dedicated to enhancing leadership and the status of the management team. more...
EVENTS
Meetings are run locally in Scotland and provide both educational and networking opportunities for managing partners and other senior members of the management team. MPF Scotland connects the local professional services community with the wider MPF network, whilst generating real value for members closer to home. As a membership organisation, all our meetings are member only. However, those interested in joining are welcome to attend one event as our guest in order to get a feel for the Panel.
Please contact your local Regional Director or MPF Executive Manager, Paul Lemon if you wish to hear more about our events and/or membership.
KNOWLEDGE
The MPF collects confidential data and conducts regular surveys amongst MPs and members of the management team based worldwide. Leading consultants in strategy and leadership, appointed by the MPF Executive Committee, prepare monthly surveys on strategy and leadership issues, summarise findings, and make presentations at MPF events held in key cities worldwide (London, New York, Frankfurt etc). All findings are released for free into the public domain to ensure professional firms everywhere have access to reliable facts on key management issues. more...
CAMPAIGNS
The MPF is the most powerful lobby group in professional services, launching a new campaign every six months. MPF campaigns confront the professions on particular issues aiming to empower the management team and help connect the local professional services community into the MPF network.
Current campaigns include:
- In search of Management talent: A “prospectus” for the professions
- Time Management: MPF Management Diary - time well spent?
- Partner Career Paths: Exploring the sound of silence
- Leadership Selection: Less politics, more transparency, clear reward
- Unsung Heroes: No-one should be treated as a second class citizen
We aim to remain at the cutting-edge of business thinking in professional services through regular surveys of our members and global leaders in marketing, HR, IT, finance etc, while allowing members to canvass each other on a management issue through MPF Pulse.
AWARDS
We organise the European Practice Management Awards, the only competition to focus on the contribution of different disciplines to managing a professional firm. Widely recognised as the premier Awards in Europe for those with practice management roles, the competition has been running since 2002.
COMMITTEE
Chair: Kirk Murdoch is the Senior Partner Scotland for McGrigors LLP and a member of the Board charged with providing leadership and strategic direction across the firm.
Regional Director: Margaret Lang is Chief Executive of Intelligent Office UK Limited. Prior to joining Intelligent Office, Margaret managed a $100m business in New York providing outsourced office services to leading US investment banks and law firms. In 2001, she returned to the UK with the aim of bringing US outsourcing best practice to UK firms. She completed an MBI to a digital printing business which was then sold to the management team in 2005. Mags can be contacted on 07968 764 953
Martin Darroch was appointed Chief Executive of Harper Macleod LLP in August 2006 having previously been Finance Director. Under his leadership the firm has grown from 85 people to 215 people and turnover has increased from £3.4 million to £13.5 million. He is responsible for the creation and implementation of the firm’s ongoing strategic policy and ensuring all departments are aligned to deliver the goals of this policy.
Bill Drummond took on the role of Managing Partner at Brodies in 1998 with the objective of modernising the business whilst maintaining and building on the firm's strong reputation for quality in both legal advice and service delivery. Under Bill’s stewardship, Brodies has witnessed seven consecutive years of double digit revenue growth, with the latest financial year to April 2007 resulting in a 43% increase. Bill remains closely in touch with clients by continuing his role as property adviser to major corporates and private developers. He has been an Executive member of the Scottish Council for Development & Industry for 7 years and for the last couple an elected Board Member.
Duncan MacAskill was appointed Office Managing Partner of KPMG LLP’s Aberdeen office during 2007, having relocated the previous year from KPMG’s Birmingham office, where he had been a partner for 10 years. Duncan leads some 100 Aberdeen based professionals in a full service offering including Audit, Tax, Corporate Finance, Transaction Services and Restructuring.
Drew Oswald was appointed Managing Partner responsible for Knight Frank’s commercial business in Scotland in March 1999.Andrew was appointed a Partner of Knight Frank in July 1993, responsible for all professional services in Scotland. Andrew is a member of the RICS Panel of Arbiters and Independent Experts for dispute resolution, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration.
DETAILS OF OUR NEXT EVENT
Growth strategies for professional services firms
HBJ Gateley Wareing, Exchange Tower, 19 Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EH
Wednesday 3 September 2008
White & Case LLP is a leading global law firm with more than 2,300 lawyers in 37 offices in 25 countries. Over the last five years the firm’s London revenues have grown at an annual compound rate of 34.5%, making White & Case one of, if not the, fastest-growing of the major law firms in London. The firm now has more than 400 fee-earners in London.
In this session, Peter Finlay, senior partner, and James Martin, director of business development and marketing at White & Case in London, will speak about the drivers of this growth, the challenges it has brought and where the firm plans to go next in the London market.
About our speakers
Peter Finlay is the senior partner of White & Case’s London office and co-heads the firm’s corporate practice in London. His practice involves financings with an emphasis on acquisitions, joint ventures, privatisations and project financings and with a particular focus in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Peter worked in the firm’s New York office from 1980 to 1983, in Paris from 1983 to 1986 and in Istanbul from 1986 to 1990. He has been based in London since 1990.
James Martin is the director of business development and marketing at White & Case in London. Previously he headed external communications for White & Case in Europe. He has spent 10 years in corporate communications and marketing, working both in-house and in agency, across a broad variety of industry sectors. Prior to joining White & Case in early 2004, James worked in the corporate and professional services arm of worldwide marketing and communications agency, GCI.
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