Shepherd and Wedderburn

Property

Elaine trained and qualified in Scotland and thereafter re-qualified in England and Wales in 2000 whilst working in London for a city firm.

She has more than 20 years' experience in the real estate sector, including involvement in major UK-wide property transactions, multiple property "portfolio" deals and cross-border work.

Elaine has long-standing relationships with a number of the firm’s clients across a variety of disciplines and heads up the Scottish-based arm of our English Property Unit.

Clients include energy companies, investors, developers, hotel operators, house builders, manufacturers, housing associations, funders, retailers and healthcare providers.  Examples are: Mactaggart & Mickel Homes Limited; Caring Homes Healthcare Group Limited; Clydesdale Bank PLC; BDL Select Hotels; BayWa r.e. UK Limited; Vattenfall; Falck; and Macdonald Resorts.

Trained Wright Johnston & Mackenzie, qualified 1997; solicitor, Bird Semple 1997-1999; solicitor, CMS Cameron McKenna, London 1999-2001; partner (from 2006) Tods Murray2001-2014; director, Shepherd and Wedderburn 2014 to present.

Law Society of Scotland (admitted 1997)
Law Society of England and Wales (admitted 2000)
Board member, Linstone Housing Association (2014 to present date)

1994 - University of Glasgow - LLB (Hons) (Private Law)
1995 - University of Glasgow – Diploma in Legal Practice (Distinction)
2000 – College of Law, London – Qualified Lawyers Transfer Course
2009 – University of Northumbria – Post-Graduate Diploma in Property Development, Planning and Environmental Law