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Andrew Linehan

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Work Department

Private Client - Rural property and estates

Areas of work:

• land and property
• agricultural law
• land reform
• leasing rural property
• sporting rights
• servitudes
• registration
• rectification of title

Position

Partner – Rural property & estates 

Andrew Linehan is Head of the Rural Property group at Murray Beith Murray. He is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Agricultural Law. His work covers a wide range of rural property transactions, including agricultural leasing, the sale and purchase of farms, estates and forestry, renewable energy schemes, servitudes sportings (including salmon fishings) and feudal dignities.

Acting for a number of farming families and rural businesses, Andrew works closely with Murray Beith Murray’s private client teams to advise on partnership and succession issues. Andrew acts for clients across Scotland and beyond.

Andrew is Legal Advisor to the Scottish Agricultural Arbiters and Valuers Association (SAAVA), having previously acted as Secretary and Legal Advisor to a regional Agricultural Valuers body for 11 years.

Career

Where trained: Maclay Murray & Spens

Year qualified: 2003

Army officer, 1994-98; Tods Murray 2003-04; Turcan Connell 2004-09; partner (rural property), Lindsays, January 2010 to August 2019; Partner (rural property), Murray Beith Murray, September 2019 to date. Honorary secretary of Royal Scots Dragoon Guards regimental trust, and was Secretary of the South of Scotland and Border Valuers’ Association for 11 years.

Memberships

Law Society of Scotland; Agricultural Law Association; Scottish Agricultural Arbiters and Valuers Association; The South of Scotland and Border Valuers’ Association.

Education

School attended: Rossall School

Universities attended: Dundee University (1991-94 MA); RMA Sandhurst 1994-95; Glasgow University (1998-2000 LLB); Edinburgh University (2000-01 Dip legal practice).