What We Do
Business advisors are legion - but good ones, with years of expert corporate, legal and technical knowledge and experience, are a rarer breed.
Ours is a lean firm, providing a focussed service to a select number of businesses around the world, but unmistakably based in Scotland.
What We Do
Clear thinking, problem-solving and practical is what we do best here.
You should expect creative solutions as we craft the strategic or business advice you need.
Your business and personal issues will be dear to you and you should expect and will receive commitment to good outcomes.
Business advisors are legion, but good ones with years of expert corporate, legal and technical knowledge and experience are a rarer breed.
Running your own business can be a lonely place and having a strategy expert by your side can be the difference between success and failure.
You need an advisor you can trust to protect your interests and who can provide all the expertise you will need.
Our aim is to delve deep into your business; to understand your needs; to help you shape your strategy; to set achievable objectives; to work with you beyond simply the legals.
We want to be enablers to your success and we are approachable, adaptable and flexible.
Teamwork in more than just name.
“The art of successfully putting together a business deal, whether a merger, an acquisition or a sale, is often about balance, skill and dogged determination.”
How It Works
We analyse your business, work out your options and map out how best to achieve them.
Strategy and tactics are aligned to good information-gathering and common sense, to produce workable solutions.
Every piece of work proceeds on a pre-agreed basis, so there is predictable pricing and certainty.
Adding value is one of our mantras here.
It’s always personal for us - you are not just another case, or another client. We know that the outcome for lives and livelihoods could depend upon our full engagement with your business.
It may be old-fashioned to say but, as your advisors, we take the time to understand your needs and to do the very best for you.
Our values may be traditional but we embrace all the complexities of business today.
Who We Are
Hood Corporate is a law firm which embraces the lean methodologies currently sweeping through industry. We focus only on the resources which will create value for our clients. We make no initial assumptions about your needs and will assemble the streamlined team of experts you require - there will be no cast of thousands working on your case. At the centre of our operations is our Lead Counsel, Ross Hood.
Ross is an expert in business, international trade and investment law, with over 35 years of experience in the field.
He earned his stripes as a younger lawyer while gaining invaluable experience with top Scottish firms Brodies, Bird Semple, McGrigor Donald and Dickson Minto before branching out in his own firm Hood Dunlop, which he ran for 7 years, latterly from his office in Edinburgh’s prestigious Charlotte Square.
Head-hunted by Scottish firm Morisons during the late 1990’s, he reached the top of his profession in corporate practice as their Senior Partner in Corporate Law, before leaving to concentrate on providing a more focussed, advisory service to a smaller number of businesses.
In his time as a Corporate Partner, he handled thousands of business issues and now brings a wealth of experience and contacts to bear on any problem. He is known for his left-field thinking and constructive, creative approach.
An accomplished negotiator and a problem-solver by inclination, he loves working with businesses to help them make their way in the business world.
In a world beset by business poachers, you need a good gamekeeper by your side.
