Davidson Chalmers Stewart

Arveen Arabshahi

Arveen is a Partner in Davidson Chalmers Stewart's Corporate team. He advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures and corporate restructurings.

Andrew Chalmers

Chair of Davidson Chalmers Stewart and head of the Commercial Real Estate department. Co-founded the firm in 1993. Covers a broad range of commercial property work, primarily focusing on investment, development and landlord and tenant work. Currently involved in a number of developments in the hotel, serviced apartment and student accommodation sectors along with investment purchases and sales. Clients include multinationals, UK financial institutions, funds, major national property developers, retailers and student accommodation operators.

Caroline Court

Former Partner in the Real Estate department where she headed up the firm’s residential development team. Caroline now supports the firm as a consultant. Many years’ experience of dealing with property development and site assembly, including residential, retail, office and industrial. This includes dealing with longer term land options and JV contracts, as well as planning and infrastructure agreements and all related aspects of property development.

Stuart Duncan

A former Partner in the Corporate department, Stuart now supports the firm as a consultant. Extensive experience from many years of dealing with commercial clients and advising on a wide range of business law-related matters, such as the purchase and sale of companies, corporate restructuring, joint venture arrangements and partnership matters. Also provides opinions and consultancy advice, principally to other solicitors, on a variety of corporate and commercial issues.

Lizzy Enayati

Qualified as a Solicitor in 2006 and joined Davidson Chalmers Stewart in 2014, now a Director in the Real Estate team. She has a strong background in general commercial property and is involved in a wide range of property transactions across the team, including the sale and purchase of various types of commercial property, advising both landlord and tenant on commercial leases and dealing with related lending and security aspects.

Bruce Lancaster

Partner within the firm’s Commercial Real Estate department, with particular emphasis on development (both residential and commercial) and construction. In addition to dealing with a wide variety of property work, including site acquisition, development agreements, leasing and investment contracts, Bruce is involved in construction aspects of development work, including drafting and negotiating building contracts, professional appointments, collateral warranties and other construction-related documents.

Stephanie Mackenzie

Director in the Residential Development team. Deals with acquisitions of sites for residential development and also acts for landowners in selling land and granting options for developers. Negotiates complex sale and purchase agreements, overage agreements, planning obligations and security arrangements.

Gavin Maclean

Former Partner in the Real Estate department working across the retail and leisure sectors, business space and commercial and residential development and investment, often with a cross-border angle. He now supports the firm as a consultant. Accredited by the Law Society of Scotland in 2005 as a specialist in commercial leasing law and acts for a number of blue-chip retailers, office and leisure occupiers. Active in commercial and residential development and investment, and the student accommodation sectors. Also widely experienced in acquisition/disposal of investment assets, and cross-border transactions/corporate support work.

Laura Tainsh

Partner in the Environmental, Waste and Renewables team. Deals with a wide range of environmental and energy issues and commercial projects covering all mediums (water, emissions, waste and resources). Specialism and substantial experience in Environmental law, particularly waste and resource management, consenting, pollution and contamination and enforcement action. She has a varied practice with a wide-ranging client base including developers, landowners, investors, consultants and funders. She deals with due diligence, bespoke contractual drafting, permitting and consenting issues, waste and contaminated land, legislative interpretation, environmental taxes and environmental disputes (including regulator investigations, appeals, tribunals, judicial review and court actions).

Andy Tyler

Partner in the Real Estate team. He has substantial experience across the real estate spectrum. This includes investment acquisitions and disposals, leasing (landlord and tenant), residential development (for housebuilders and housing associations), commercial development and real estate finance. He has developed particular expertise in investment and development within the student accommodation sector. His experience in development work includes all aspects of site acquisition, site set up, funding and development. This includes negotiating agreements for lease or forward sale agreements and the refinancing or disposal of the completed development. Andy works closely with the planning, corporate and construction teams. Andy has acted in numerous cross border transactions working with firms south of the border for both national and international businesses.