Magnus Swanson
Law At Work, the Scottish legal firm acquired by London-based Marlowe Group in 2019, has this morning unveiled a trio of acquisitions worth more than £5 million made through its parent company. The firms joining Law At Work, which specialises in employment law, human resources and health and safety, include Youmanage, a Dundee-based HR software provider, in a deal worth £1.25m. Youmanage has been acquired alongside two other firms, ESPHR, an employment law firm and employee relations technology business, and third-sector specialist HR Services Partnership. All three will be led by Law at Work and Ellis Whittam, which deliver Marlowe’s employment law and HR services across the UK.
The landscape around Helen O’Keefe’s Sutherland croft spans ancient woodlands, glassy lochs, rolling hills, wetlands, moors and vast areas of grasslands. Beneath her feet grow rare wildflowers like yellow saxifrage, in the sky overhead soar golden and sea eagles. Majestic Suilven looms over Elphin where she farms her five hectares, cares for her sheep and chickens, and tends to her market garden crops. Covered with a layer of snow in winter, or blooming with wildflowers in spring, it could scarcely be less like Western Australia’s sun-baked Kalgoorlie desert, scared by one of the continent’s largest open-cut gold mines, pancake flat and where, until a few years ago was her home.