David Gibson > BTO Solicitors LLP > Glasgow, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
BTO Solicitors LLP Offices
48 ST VINCENT STREET
GLASGOW
G2 5HS
United Kingdom
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David Gibson
Work Department
Real estate, property/commercial.
Position
Chairman / Partner
Chairman of BTO.
One of the most experienced commercial property practitioners in the Scottish market and highly regarded for his corporate and commercial property skills and depth of experience across an impressive range of sectors. Expert in corporate structures, public/private JVs, development projects, infrastructure, landed estates, charities, retail and renewable energy schemes. Advises national and multi-national companies, estates, charities, funders, public sector bodies, SMEs and others including e.g. Luss Estates Company, Audit Scotland, United Biscuits, Stena Line Group, TUI Group, Calor Gas, Isle of Arran Distillers, and Clic Sargent. Lead partner in Rural Business and Renewable Energy Units. Recent project experience includes lead property adviser to the Scottish Football Association in Hampden Stadium arrangements, a project of national significance.
Career
Trained W & J Burness WS; qualified 1986, partner BTO Solicitors LLP 2011. Partner W&J Burness WS/Burness LLP (1990-2011); partner BTO Solicitors LLP (2011 to date).
Publications of note: various press articles; advisory panel to Scottish Law Commission
Languages
Conversational French.
Memberships
Writer to the Signet.
Education
Edinburgh University (1984 LLB Hons Dip LP).
Leisure
Golf (Glasgow Golf Club; Crail Golf Club); classic cars.
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
BTO Solicitors LLP, under the leadership of Jane Steel, offers a ‘professional, well-priced, and user-friendly’ service to its clients. Notable team members include David Gibson, who is active in the charity, retail, and renewable energy spaces, Scott Buchan, who deals with investment and development related matters, and Nicholas McBride, who regularly advises investors, tenants, landowners, and property development funders.
Scotland > Finance > Banking and finance
BTO Solicitors LLP demonstrates expertise across a broad spectrum of finance mandates, delivering counsel to clients prominent in the energy, industrial, leisure and real estate sectors. Spearheading the practice is Nicolas McBride, who advises a host of clearing and challenging banks active in the region, notably sought out for his property finance expertise. Fellow co-head Jeremy Glen‘s work concentrates on corporate finance instructions, while David Gibson is a key name in the team for property finance matters. Further practitioners of note include Scott Buchan, who focuses on development financings, and Emma Barclay, who acts across a wide variety of lender and borrower-side mandates.
Lawyer Rankings
- Banking and finance Scotland > Finance
- Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow Scotland > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: fraud
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Private client > Family
- Insurance > Medical negligence: defender
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Social housing
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Construction