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Mr Drysdale Graham
Work Department
Energy and Infrastructure
Position
Drysdale advises on social and economic infrastructure projects with a particular focus on project sponsors and their funders. He has been rated for over twenty years as a leading individual in the infrastructure projects/public private partnerships sector by the Legal Directories. During his career spanning more than 35 years, he has worked on projects throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland encompassing such diverse sectors as healthcare, education, social housing, wastewater, roads, military accommodation and harbours.
Drysdale was mandated to act for bidders/sponsors on 8 of the 10 projects in the Scottish Government’s £2.5bn Non-Profit Distributing programme. Noteworthy recent projects include the Irish Social Housing , Community Nursing Units and Higher Education ppps, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service National Centre at Heriot Watt University research park, the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route and the Ayrshire College Kilmarnock Campus NPD projects and the procurement of a new harbour facility at Nigg Bay, south of Aberdeen, for Aberdeen Harbour Board.
Career
Biggart Baillie & Gifford 1980-82 – legal apprentice
Dundas & Wilson 1982-84 – lawyer in corporate team
McGrigor Donald, Glasgow 1984-87 – lawyer in corporate team
Freshfields 1987-91 – lawyer in corporate team
McGrigor Donald, London 1991-91 – lawyer in corporate team
McGrigors, Edinburgh 1992-2012 – partner
Pinsent Masons 2012-17 – partner
Brodies 2017 to date – partner
Memberships
Member of Law Society of Scotland (qualified 1982)
Member of Law Society of England and Wales (qualified 1989)
Notary Public
Member of Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet
Education
Edinburgh Academy 1963-1976
University of Aberdeen 1976-1980 (LLB Hons (2.1))
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
(Hall of Fame)‘One of the largest practices, if not the largest in Scotland’, Brodies LLP acts on the full lifespan of PPP and Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects across the UK and Ireland, servicing a diverse range of major public and private clients. The practice is well known for its market-leading public law, finance and procurement expertise, and head of infrastructure Drysdale Graham 
has a particular focus on advising project sponsors and funders. Michael Stoneham leads the energy and infrastructure finance group, utilising his extensive project finance expertise across a broad range of sectors including healthcare, education, transport and housing. Stuart Murray was promoted to partner in May 2022, with his experience working on Scotland’s hub programme of social accommodation procurement being ‘second to none’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Scotland > Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- Projects Scotland > Projects, energy and natural resources
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: fraud
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Finance > Investment funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Public sector > Parliamentary and public affairs
- Insurance > Personal injury: defender
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- Real estate > Planning
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Environment
- Public sector > Health
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Medical negligence: defender
- Employment > Pensions
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- Real estate > Social housing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport