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Simon Etchells

Simon Etchells

UK 2026

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Ranked in 1 practice area

Real Estate

Scotland

20 years ranked

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About

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Practice Areas

Real Estate

Career

Simon is a dual-qualified real estate lawyer with 35 years' experience in the sector, working on the coordination and delivery of a range of complex property transactions across the UK.

He has been instrumental in establishing a leading practice in Scotland offering UK cross border real estate services. A wide range of deal experience allows him to help clients beyond just legal advice.

Simon is known for the rapid building of trusted relationships with clients and being a driven, innovative deal doer. He is very well connected across the UK property industry.

Simon deals with retail, leisure, office and shopping centre investment and developments, strategic real estate advice to corporates, joint ventures, residential developments, inward investment for overseas clients, all forms of commercial leasing (for landlords and tenants), land option arrangements, large scale transaction management and business development. He has been involved in the generation and conduct of £5,000m+ of real estate investment and funding deals since 2003.

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Real Estate - Scotland

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Simon Etchells of gunnercooke has a broad real estate practice that includes investment portfolio sales, industrial regeneration projects and development work in the leisure sector. He is dual-qualified in Scotland and in England and Wales.

Strengths

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  • Simon is very experienced and commercial.

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  • Simon offers excellent advice with the added benefit of being dual-qualified in England and Scotland. He is able to explain the nuances of Scottish law and takes a commercial approach.

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  • Simon reigns supreme in his real estate knowledge and the ability to complete transactions.

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  • Simon is very commercially minded.

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