Brodies LLP

Chair:Christine O’Neill KC

Managing Partner:Nick Scott

Number of Partners:115

International offices – Brodies Middle East LLP has an office in Abu Dhabi

Top 50 UK law firm Brodies LLP is the largest law firm headquartered in Scotland measured by income, directory rankings, and lawyer numbers.

Its approach to business today is influenced by its history, which dates back nearly 300 years to the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. That approach recognises the individual knowledge and expertise of colleagues and the Enlightened Thinking that they deliver. That thought has a reach extending to all corners of the Scottish economy, and globally.

With more than 800 colleagues working across offices in Aberdeen, Brussels, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and London, the firm works with clients in the following core business areas: arbitration; banking and financial services; employment; energy (renewables and oil & gas); litigation; M&A, private equity and IP; real estate; pensions and benefits; personal and family and tax.

Brodies opened its first international arm in the UAE in 2023, with the launch of Abu Dhabi-based Brodies Middle East LLP.

Corporate & Commercial:

The team advises corporates, public bodies and business owners and has exceptional credentials across a broad range of specialisms – private equity; general M&A; cross-border transactions; regulation and government work; investment funds; public/private partnerships, projects and construction; IP, IT and outsourcing; corporate tax; employment and immigration; employee benefits and pensions.Additionally, there are specialists within the team who focus on the energy sector.

Banking & Finance:

Advising organisations across Scotland, the UK and internationally, the team has significant in-house experience with large financial institutions, and deals with complex and high value transactions, new product development, legal risk management and regulatory compliance. The team has particular expertise in renewables and other energy financing, including oil & gas; shipping finance; securitisation and capital markets; funds financing; re-banking; insolvency and restructuring; corporate borrowing; green finance; asset finance; portfolio sales and purchases; and social housing and care home transactions. Clients include UK and international financial institutions, alternative lenders, funds and corporates operating in all sectors from renewable energy and healthcare to food & drink and real estate.

Real Estate:

Brodies has the largest and most diversified real estate legal team in Scotland, with specialists who operate in every sector of the property market. Expertise includes investment, development and finance; commercial, residential and mixed-use development; out-of-town and high-street retail; leisure; hotels; licensing; land and rural business; land diversification; urban regeneration and construction; outsourcing projects; planning and property litigation.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution:

The firm has one of Scotland's largest litigation practices. This includes 12 solicitor advocates, who appear regularly in the court of session and sheriff courts throughout Scotland. Specialisms include commercial and contractual disputes; health and safety; compliance; insurance; professional negligence; clinical negligence; professional discipline and regulation; risk management; intellectual property and IT disputes; property litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including adjudication, mediation, international arbitration and expert witness. In addition, Brodies has a wealth of expertise in public law and regulation (with extensive experience of parliamentary, local authority, freedom of information and human rights issues), enhanced by expertise in competition law.

Private Client/Personal & Family:

The firm’s private client and family team is known for its core work in estate planning; wills; trusts; tax; divorce; child law; asset protection; charities and executries, in multi-jurisdictional areas, as well as for developing a variety of trust solutions.Additionally, three private client lawyers are dual-qualified in Scots law and the law of England of Wales which allow them to advise clients with cross-border interests in matters of wills and estate planning, powers of attorney, probate and estate administration, trusts and succession planning.The firm's family practice includes 26 accreditations across the team, including 9 family law mediators, 12 family law specialists, 5 child law specialists, 2 solicitor advocates, and a family law arbitrator.

·Acted for Katjes Greenfood (the investment arm of German confectionary group, Katjes, one of Germany's largest sweet manufacturers) on its acquisition of Genius Foods, the UK market leader in gluten-free ready-to-eat bakery products.

·Supported Insight Enterprises, Inc, headquartered in Arizona, on amendments to its existing facilities, advising on matters relating to UK law and co-ordinating counsel and specialist advice across Insight's EMEA locations.

·Advising Netherlands based Seafood Connection on its acquisition of Northcoast Seafoods Limited, a sustainable seafood producer based in Grimsby and owned in the Isle of Man. Seafood Connection is a leading frozen seafood product provider and part of Maruha Nichiro, the world's largest fish company.

·Acted for Bluefloat Energy UK Holdings Limited in its successful defence of a £400 million claim brought by a competitor company, Moray Offshore Regional Power Limited.

Banking & Financial Services:Bruce Stephen, Peter Kelly

Casualty:Laura McMillan, Carly Forrest

Clinical Negligence:Laura McMillan

Commercial Litigation:Joyce Cullen, Iain Rutherford, Stephen Goldie

Competition & EU Law:Charles Livingstone

Construction & Engineering:Alistair McLean, Louise Shiels

Corporate:Neil Burgess

Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency:Peter Kelly, Lucy McCann

Debt & Asset Recovery:Iain Rutherford

Dispute Resolution & Litigation:Stephen Goldie, Joyce Cullen, Iain Rutherford

Education:Brenda Scott, Niall McLean

Employment:Tony Hadden, Joan Cradden

Energy:Clare Munro, Keith Patterson, Kirsty Macpherson

Family Law:Shaun George

Government and Business:Jackie McGuire, Niall McLean

Health:Jackie McGuire

Health & Safety:Clare Bone, Laura McMillan, Duncan MacLean, Victoria Anderson

Immigration:Elaine McIlroy

Insurance:Duncan MacLean, Alan Calvert, Carly Forrest

International Arbitration:Ken MacDonald, Iain Rutherford, Jared Oyston

IP, Technology & Data:Grant Campbell, Martin Sloan, Iain Rutherford

Life Sciences:Grant Strachan

Oil & Gas:Clare Munro

Pensions:Juliet Bayne

Planning & Environment:Neil Collar, Elaine Farquharson-Black, Phil Hunter

Private Client:Mark Stewart, Alan Barr, Susanne Batchelor

Professional Discipline & Regulation:Christine O'Neill KC, Niall McLean

Professional Negligence:Alan Calvert, Alisdair Matheson,

Projects:Stuart Murray

Public Law & Regulation:Jackie McGuire, Christine O’Neill KC

Real Estate:Johane Murray, Richard Whyte, Tracey Menzies

Real Estate Litigation:Stephen Goldie, Matthew Farrell

Renewables:Keith Patterson, Kirsty Macpherson

Rural Business:Clive Phillips

Shipping:Duncan MacLean, Malcolm Mackay

Tax & Incentives:Karen Davidson, Isobel d’Inverno, Alan Barr

Transport:Duncan MacLean, Karen Hamilton

Sport:Andy Nolan

Aberdeen office

Brodies House

31-33 Union Grove

Aberdeen

AB10 6SD

Brussels office

Scotland House

Rond-point

Robert Schuman 6

1040 Bruxelles, Belgium

Edinburgh office

Capital Square

58 Morrison Street

Edinburgh

EH3 8BP

Glasgow office

110 Queen Street

Glasgow

G1 3BX

Inverness office

Clava House

Cradlehall Business Park

Inverness

IV2 5GH

London office

90 Bartholomew Close

London

EC1A 7BN

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