George McNaughton joins the partnership as the head of compliance at its LSPG unit following a 30-year career in banking and finance. His previous post was at digital-only lender Starling Bank, where he worked for eight months as an SME collections specialist.
The law firm says much of McNaughton’s career “has been spent within retail banking, specialising in compliance, and working across lending and recoveries for a range of financial institutions.”
The practice says: “Following a number of acquisitions over the last few years, the firm has continued to focus on expanding and strengthening its legal teams and specialisms throughout the country.”
The firm offers property, legal and financial services to private and commercial customers across Scotland and the north of England.
It runs a chain of offices that cover Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee and Newcastle.
The company has also promoted Tahir Bashir to UK operations director for LSPG. Bashir joined the firm last year as operations manager.
It has also hired Gary McAdam as client relations manager for the LSPG unit. McAdam joins from Ascent Performance Group, where he was an associate and Scottish operations manager. He is a qualified Scottish civil litigation paralegal and has worked in litigation, compliance and recoveries roles.
The firm has appointed Dalene Lyle as an associate in the LSPG department. Lyle specialises in banking and property litigation and has over 10 years of experience in lender services.
Aberdein Considine partner and head of the lender services practice group Myra Scott says: “It’s always pleasing to be able to attract the best talent to the firm and the expertise and knowledge that George, Gary and Dalene bring will be vital as we continue to work closely with our financial services clients across the UK.
“Tahir has also proved to be an incredible and highly valued addition to the team since joining last year and his promotion is well deserved.
“As a multi-jurisdictional supplier of banking litigation and debt recovery, our practice has grown significantly over the past few years.
“This brings unique challenges and our new appointments will support the growing range of complex non-standard mortgage litigation, asset and debt recovery cases we are managing.”
