Agriculture and estates

Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Clive Phillips
Clive Phillips
Hall of fameBrodies LLP
Clive heads the Rural Business team at Brodies and acts for a wide range of landed estates and farming clients. Clive acts regularly for offshore clients with rural property in Scotland, as well as for a very active domestic client base. He has an in-depth knowledge of the rural sector as an accredited specialist in agricultural law, and as a family farm business owner. Clive is frequently instructed on diversification projects, such as wind farms, anaerobic digester and solar farm projects. He has a particular interest in new business structures in commercial agriculture and has been instigative in the promotion of share farming and joint venture arrangements to the sector. Understanding the interaction of land ownership, rural business and succession enables Clive to advise effectively on structuring farming rural businesses in order to provide strategic succession planning advice. Clive is regularly instructed to troubleshoot disputed agricultural holdings and other contentious situations in the rural sector.
John Mitchell
Hall of fameAnderson Strathern
Head of the Rural Land & Business team whose work includes: sale, purchase and lease of rural property; agricultural, sporting and rural leases (including dispute resolution); rural property finance; development, diversification and conservation; natural resources and energy; utilities and telecommunications; sporting and fishing rights; business structures; agricultural support and grants. John has an empathy for rural Scotland and adopts an innovative and collaborative approach in his dealings.
Jon Robertson
Hall of fameTurcan Connell
Partner, head of land and property and head of renewables, specialist in agricultural law, rural conveyancing, farm and estate purchases and sales, rural finance, sporting and fishing, land reform, wind farms, hydro-electric and other renewables projects, aquaculture, diversification, forestry, agriculture, mining and development work, conservation, planning and environmental law.
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Andrew Linehan
Andrew Linehan
Murray Beith Murray LLP
Partner - Rural property & estates  Andrew Linehan is Head of the Rural Property group at Murray Beith Murray. He is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Agricultural Law. His work covers a wide range of rural property transactions, including agricultural leasing, the sale and purchase of farms, estates and forestry, renewable energy schemes, servitudes sportings (including salmon fishings) and feudal dignities. Acting for a number of farming families and rural businesses, Andrew works closely with Murray Beith Murray's private client teams to advise on partnership and succession issues. Andrew acts for clients across Scotland and beyond. Andrew is Legal Advisor to the Scottish Agricultural Arbiters and Valuers Association (SAAVA), having previously acted as Secretary and Legal Advisor to a regional Agricultural Valuers body for 11 years.
Adele Nicol
Anderson Strathern
Adèle is a partner in the land resources department. She is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in agricultural law. Adèle has worked in the rural sector since 1989 advises clients on all aspects of rural property, including the sale and purchase of farms, forestry and rural estates and diversified uses of and rural property and the day-to-day legal management issues arising therefrom. She is a member of the Agricultural Law Association and sits on The Law Society of Scotland’s Rural Affairs Committee. She has experience of contested and uncontested matters relating to Agricultural and Crofting Law in the Scottish Land Court. She is a regular speaker at training events on rural law and has contributed talks for Central Law Training and the Law Society of Scotland. Adèle has a particular interest in crofting law and housing law, and has monitored and lectured on the Scottish parliament's reforms in these areas.She has experience in renewable energy, both acting for developers and landowners, and has experience of developing energy projects on croft land having advised on the use of Schemes for Development under Section 19A of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 .
Robert Andrew Scott-Dempster
Gillespie Macandrew LLP
Robert is head of the firm’s Land and Rural Business team. His main area of practice lies in agriculture and landed estates, rural businesses, renewable energy, ownership structures and capital taxation. He is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in agricultural law.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Kate McLeish
Kate McLeish
Brodies LLP
Kate acts for landed estates, farmers and agri-businesses across Scotland and deals with a wide range of rural property matters, including land sales and acquisitions, leases, fishings and sportings and complex voluntary registrations. Kate acts for landed estates, farmers and agri-businesses across Scotland and deals with a wide range of rural property matters, including land sales and acquisitions, leases, fishings and sportings and complex voluntary registrations.
Leading associates
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
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