Vision & values

Our Vision is to be the leading legal adviser to fast growing entrepreneurial companies and investors

Our aims are simple:

  • Provide solutions for our clients
  • Deliver these solutions in a way that our clients want
  • Provide our services at competitive prices
  • Give our clients upfront clarity on how we charge
  • Get deals done on time and on budget

We believe that our success lies in recruiting the very best people. Our lawyers are committed to providing the very best advice and are trained to be skilled project managers. In addition, most of them are double graduates. We strive to work effectively as a team and keep transactions as straightforward and hassle-free as possible for our clients. We take a real interest in our clients' businesses and believe that we add value, very often by assisting clients to raise finance and introducing them to people who will help their businesses grow.

We are bound by a set of core Values which embody who we are and how we do business:

We have a passion for supporting talent and providing constant excellence in all aspects of what we do, whether that be technical legal work, project management, deal initiation and negotiation and service delivery and responsiveness. We support and help our clients and staff to reach their full potential.

We take a real interest in our clients and know that the right connections and introductions made at the right time can really help their businesses succeed. Looking out for our clients and making these connections is part of our DNA. Our specialist sector knowledge and networks are here to support business growth.

We are a solutions focussed business that adopts a commercial, practical and dynamic approach to get transactions over the finish line and secure results in relation to specific challenges and problems. Using our specialist sector knowledge and expertise, we work effectively and efficiently to make things happen in a way that suits our clients.

We work with clarity and honesty as part of helping our clients obtain the best possible solutions for their businesses in an environment where all actions come under the spotlight. We offer a guiding hand as an independent and trusted adviser to help ensure that when faced with difficult choices and challenges our clients take the right path and make the right decisions.

We strive to be awesome in everything that we do and want to help our clients’ and their businesses to be awesome too!

If you ever feel that we have not lived up to our values then please contact our Senior Partner, Stuart Hendry.

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Equality and Diversity

Mission Statement

We will become leaders in our field for equality, diversity and inclusion.

We understand that inclusion and diversity are key to ensuring the best possible experience for our clients and our employees. We are dedicated to achieving real change and challenging traditional attitudes. We are not interested in just paying lip service.

We know the value of diversity. The more diverse our staff, partners, and clients are, the more diverse our ideas become, and as a consequence, our solutions to the problems our clients face are more creative and empathetic. This belief is intrinsic to our success.

To help us achieve these goals, our diversity and inclusion strategy will initially focus on three principle areas:

  1. Our recruitment
  2. Our policies and
  3. Our network.

Throughout, we will be celebrating our differences, recognising the work we need to do, and encouraging frank conversations.

As time goes on, these may change and adapt to reflect the next stage of our strategy and we look forward to updating you as our journey progresses.

Championing forward our strategy will be our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (“EDI”) Committee.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact them.


MBM Commercial prides itself on being a bit different from other law firms. Our clients are trailblazers, innovators, and visionaries, solving the big issues of our world. They are thoroughly modern - and we need to be the same. But we don’t know how exceptional we can be until everyone can be considered. Diversity is a strategic imperative that the legal profession ignores at its peril. We want to ensure that everyone has access to become a member of the legal profession.

That’s why we are proud to continue with the WE:Change programme at MBM Commercial this summer.

This unique two-week work experience programme will provide one-to-one support and work-experience where candidates will have the opportunity to meet each other and other members of the firm. It will provide unique insight into a firm like ours, hopefully inspiring students to enter into the profession.

The programme is aimed at widening participation students enrolled at Edinburgh University and Napier University who are keen to pursue a career in the law. Successful candidates will be able to work in a law office, handling business and commercial law matters. Candidates who successfully complete their term will be eligible for consideration in a mentorship programme, where they will be paired with an experienced solicitor or other legal professional for an agreed period.

The programme will run from June through August 2024. 

Corporate Responsibility

At MBM, many of our clients are driving the engine for our futures to become more sustainable and cleaner. As lawyers, we play a huge role in society to make changes and improve the world. We are therefore committing ourselves to becoming more cognisant of our environmental impact and strive to become a net-zero firm. Becoming net-zero recognizes that although there may be some waste in connection with our practices, we can offset it with simple, sustainable actions.

To adopt practical, achievable, and science-based measures to help us reduce the environmental impact that we have on the planet.

At MBM, many of our clients are driving the engine for our futures to live in a more sustainable and cleaner environment. As lawyers, we play a huge role in society to make changes and improve the world and part of that includes implementing actions within our firm to become net zero by 2030.

Becoming net zero recognizes that although there may be some waste in connection with our practices, we can offset it with simple, sustainable actions.

We adopt science-based targets to both reduce and mitigate our harmful output in order to become net zero.

We adopt practical measures and implement new policies to help us reduce the environmental impact that we have on the planet. This includes educating our staff and partners about sustainable practices that we continue to implement across our offices.

We encourage and empower staff and partners to become net zero champions outside of the office as well, by recycling waste, using public transportation to and from work (and elsewhere) and advising them on how to reduce their own carbon footprint in the home.

Finally, we look outside ourselves, to our client and professional networks to encourage others to engage in sustainable practices.

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