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1st July 2025
Smart Works Scotland appoints Yvonne Brady as New Chair

We are delighted to share that Yvonne Brady is joining the Smart Works Scotland team as the new Chair of the Board.

Yvonne is a leading Scottish lawyer with over 35 years’ experience across top national and international law firms. For more than 20 years, she led high-performing teams advising on complex restructuring, insolvency, and recovery matters across sectors including energy, manufacturing, education, hospitality, and care. Known for her direct yet collaborative style, she excels at navigating regulated industries, resolving complex issues, and delivering strategies that ensure stakeholder alignment.

Career highlights include leading on major projects involving the sale and rescue of businesses in the shipping, retail and energy sectors.

From 2020, Yvonne has focused on strategic development at MFMac, designing sector strategies and business growth plans. She previously held leadership roles at Shepherd and Wedderburn (also serving as its first Head of Diversity &Inclusion), Addleshaws, DLA Piper, and Dundas & Wilson.

Yvonne is a Legal 500 Hall of Fame inductee and a Chambers “Senior Statesperson.”

She founded Business Beats Cancer in Glasgow and serves as trustee of Quarriers and previously, Street League.

Her work has consistently blended technical excellence with impactful leadership and social contribution.

We can't wait to have Yvonne join the team!

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