Real estate, land and rural business.

Qualified Paull & Williamsons 1992; partner at Paull & Williamsons 2002; private client and rural property; partner, Ledingham Chalmers LLP 2007; partner land and rural business team, real estate department Brodies LLP, Aberdeen 2011.

Law Society of Scotland, Agricultural Law Association, Royal Highland Agricultural Society, Committee member Scottish Land & Estates (SLE) North East Region Committee 2007 to date, Committee member SLE Legal and Policy Committee 2008 to date, National Farmers Union of Scotland, Royal Northern Agricultural Society, North East and Tayside Farm Management Associations.

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.

Mackie Academy, Stonehaven; University of Dundee (LLP with distinction including economics and accountancy; Diploma in Legal Practice).