Louise Shiels > Brodies LLP > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Brodies LLP Offices
Capital Square
58 Morrison Street
EDINBURGH
EH3 8BP
United Kingdom
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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.
Lawyer Rankings
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