Derek Stroud > Brodies LLP > Glasgow, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Brodies LLP Offices
110 QUEEN STREET
GLASGOW
G1 3BX
United Kingdom
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Derek Stroud
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Derek is a partner in the corporate group. He has over 25 years’ experience in corporate transactions, including cross-border transactions. This covers: mergers and acquisitions; disposals; acting for companies in receipt of private equity; acting for private equity investors; joint ventures; group re-organisation and corporate governance.
He has a strong focus in both renewable energy and the oil service sector. Derek has advised clients (both utilities and investors) on numerous acquisitions and disposals of both operating windfarms and windfarm development projects. He has advised many international oil service sector companies on acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures. Derek has also advised Strathclyde Pension Fund on a multitude of private equity, renewable and infrastructure investments with a total commitment value in excess of £1.5 bn.
Career
Clark & Wallace, Neill Clerk Capital, Dickson Minto WS, partner Pinsent Masons LLP (2001 – 2016), partner Brodies LLP (2016 – present).
Education
Aberdeen University (LLB 1987, Diploma in Legal Practice 1988).
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
Lauded for providing ‘an outstanding level of advice to clients’, Brodies LLP is equipped to advise on key domestic and international mandates, with extensive activity pertaining to M&A in the financial services, tech, life sciences, and food and drink sectors. The firm also handles a range of investment deals, fundraising and investment rounds, conversions, and disposals and exits. Group lead Neil Burgess
is ‘exceptional’ across the full gamut of corporate and commercial work, handling substantial M&A, PE, joint ventures, and corporate governance and restructuring instructions. William Mcintosh is the primary contact for many of the firm’s European and US buyout house and fund mandates, and Derek Stroud counts Scottish Enterprise as a key client. David Lightbody has a proven track record in M&A and PE transactions in the food and drink and healthcare sectors. Duncan Cathie is widely praised for the ‘expertise, dedication and communication skills’ he displays throughout the lifecycle of a deal, while Alasdair Dunn‘s venture capital and early start-up work is a growing feature of his broad practice. Shuna Stirling is noted for her corporate real estate expertise, and Paul Breen focuses on company law.
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
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- 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