Markets Magazine
The Scotsman Who Can’t Stop Making Deals
Martin Gilbert does yet another merger-this time to build Standard Life Aberdeen and aim for $1 trillion in assets.
“That’s where I sat. That’s where it all began.” Martin Gilbert is pointing to the spot where his desk was when, in 1982, he joined the old-line law firm of Brander & Cruickshank in Aberdeen, a granite-gray Scottish city facing the North Sea. The space he worked in doubled as a boardroom, so Gilbert would regularly have to step outside when his superiors gathered for their monthly meetings.
That didn’t last long.