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Brodies LLP Offices
Capital Square
58 Morrison Street
EDINBURGH
EH3 8BP
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Louise Shiels
Work Department
Construction and engineering.
Position
Louise is a Partner and Head of Brodies Contentious Construction team. She is an accredited specialist in Construction Law, dual qualified in both English and Scottish Law. Louise is highly regarded by her clients and colleagues alike for her commercial awareness, technical ability and work ethic.
Louise regularly represents clients in all forms of dispute avoidance and dispute resolution for high profile, complex disputes, both during the delivery of the project and post completion of the works. Louise is currently engaged in some of the largest, most technically complex construction, engineering and energy disputes in the UK.
Career
Trained DLA Piper 2002-04; solicitor Dundas & Wilson CS LLP 2004, partner 13; partner Brodies 2014-present; Law Society of Scotland accredited specialist in construction law; regularly writes articles for Construction News, Construction Law, ICES.
Memberships
Regional coordinator of Scottish Branch of the Society of Construction Law; Women’s Infrastructure network;’ Women in Property; WiRES; Scottish Renewables.
Education
Bo’ness Academy; Edinburgh University (2001 LLB Hons), DipLP 2002; Central Law Training; qualification in the Law of England and Wales (2007).
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Real estate > Construction
(Leading individuals)Brodies LLP is the first port of call for numerous blue chips, investors, developers and contractors in large-scale projects and associated disputes. Practice co-head Louise Shiels specialises in contentious mandates, many of which have recently encompassed the healthcare and energy sectors, and is supported by Manus Quigg, an expert in construction insurance, as well as David Arnott and Christopher Duff, whose experience spans fire protection and cladding disputes. Fellow co-head Alistair Mclean
heads up the firm’s non-contentious offering and has recently been involved in residential, mixed-use and regeneration projects, meanwhile Jane McMonagle‘s workload ranges from demolition and decommissioning projects to commercial office and social housing developments.