Scott Buchan

Practice Areas

Well known and highly experienced practitioner dealing with a wide range of commercial property activity, particularly investment and development related matters with a loyal and strong client practice.

Scott has over 30 years’ commercial property experience with an extensive track record in a wide range of commercial property transactions across all sectors, including office, retail, leisure, industrial and student accommodation. As well as mainstream acquisitions and sales and landlord and tenant work, Scott has significant experience of large cross border portfolio transactions, strategic site assembly and development projects, substantial investment transactions and real estate advice and support to insolvency practitioners.

He acts for a wide spectrum of property investment and development clients ranging from private investors and property companies to public and third sector bodies. Scott’s client base extends into the broader commercial world and testimony to this is the fact he is lead client partner for the United Wholesale Group (Scotland’s largest Cash and Carry business) and the Scott Group (the UK’s largest pallet manufacturer) with each business having an annual turnover well in excess of £200m.

Clients, intermediaries and colleagues are all impressed by Scott’s proactive, pragmatic and considered approach which, allied with his ability to focus on what matters, helps ensure clients’ objectives are met.

Career

Trained Steedman, Edinburgh; qualified 1992, partner at Steedman Ramage (1998-2001); partner at Biggart Baillie (2001-2013); partner BTO Solicitors LLP (2013 - present).

Professional Memberships

Member of Investment Property Forum

Personal

All sport, in particular tennis, golf, rugby and football. Hillwalking, travel and family. SRU qualified rugby referee.

Experience

-Advising major a private investor in the purchase of Tennent Caledonian Breweries’ main UK storage and distribution depot in Cambuslang, Glasgow.

-Advising Robt Jones Holdings UK in the purchase of The Cornerstone, Glasgow, taking its substantial portfolio of office investments in Glasgow to six in total, with an appetite to expand that further.

-Advising Scott Properties Investments on the purchase of 3 multi let industrial properties in Stirling, adding to its earlier recent purchase of a retail investment in Dundee let to Tesco.