Brodies LLP

Energy and Infrastructure

Drysdale advises on social and economic infrastructure projects with a particular focus on project sponsors and their funders. He has been rated for over twenty years as a leading individual in the infrastructure projects/public private partnerships sector by the Legal Directories. During his career spanning more than 35 years, he has worked on projects throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland encompassing such diverse sectors as healthcare, education, social housing, wastewater, roads, military accommodation and harbours.

Drysdale was mandated to act for bidders/sponsors on 8 of the 10 projects in the Scottish Government's £2.5bn Non-Profit Distributing programme. Noteworthy recent projects include the Irish Social Housing , Community Nursing Units and Higher Education ppps, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service National Centre at Heriot Watt University research park, the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route and the Ayrshire College Kilmarnock Campus NPD projects and the procurement of a new harbour facility at Nigg Bay, south of Aberdeen, for Aberdeen Harbour Board.

Biggart Baillie & Gifford 1980-82 – legal apprentice

Dundas & Wilson 1982-84 – lawyer in corporate team

McGrigor Donald, Glasgow 1984-87 – lawyer in corporate team

Freshfields 1987-91 – lawyer in corporate team

McGrigor Donald, London 1991-91 – lawyer in corporate team

McGrigors, Edinburgh 1992-2012 – partner

Pinsent Masons 2012-17 – partner

Brodies 2017 to date – partner

Member of Law Society of Scotland (qualified 1982)Member of Law Society of England and Wales (qualified 1989)Notary PublicMember of Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet

Edinburgh Academy 1963-1976

University of Aberdeen 1976-1980 (LLB Hons (2.1))