Shepherd and Wedderburn

Banking & Finance

Rod is a partner in the Banking and Finance team. He specialises in commercial and corporate finance, acting in Scotland for corporate borrowers, lenders and funds. He has wide experience in cross-border property and corporate finance deals, with particular expertise in residential, commercial mortgage and trade receivables backed securitisation. He also regularly advises on leveraged funds finance structures involving Scottish limited partnership vehicles and has recently acted for JPMorgan, RBS, Lloyds, Co-operative Bank and Charter Court on cross-border finance deals.

Solicitor Tods Murray LLP 2002-2006; associate Tods Murray LLP 2006-2009; senior associate Tods Murray LLP 2009-2012; partner Tods Murray LLP 2012-2014; partner Shepherd and Wedderburn 2014 to date. Publications of note: author ‘Whose Central Bank is it Anyway?’ published in the May 2014 edition of the Edinburgh Law Review (18.2, 2014); co-author (with Dr Hamish Patrick): ‘Scottish independence: the Bank of England (and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland)’.

Law Society of Scotland.

University of Aberdeen (1998 LLB Hons;1999 Dip LP); University of Strathclyde (2000 MSc).