Simone Young > Davidson Chalmers Stewart > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Davidson Chalmers Stewart Offices
12 HOPE STREET
EDINBURGH
EH2 4DB
United Kingdom
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Simone Young
Work Department
Construction.
Position
Heads up Davidson Chalmers Stewart’s construction team and has, since qualifying as a solicitor, worked exclusively in the construction industry sector. Specialises in all aspects of transactional construction law, regularly advising clients involved in the construction sector, providing advice and guidance on both standard form and bespoke construction contracts, professional appointments, collateral warranties and ancillary procurement documentation. Has considerable experience of advising upon construction aspects of property transactions, including development agreements, pre-let agreements, forward funding agreements and the like.
Career
Trained Anderson Strathern WS, qualified 1995, assistant 1995-97; assistant Dundas & Wilson CS 1997-98; assistant Maclay Murray & Spens 1998-2000, associate 2000-04; senior associate Lindsays 2004-06, partner 2006-08, director 2008-15; director Davidson Chalmers Stewart LLP 2015-present.
Education
Westbourne School for Girls; University of Glasgow (LLB Hons 1992, DipLP 1993).
Leisure
Running, reading, skiing and tennis.
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Real estate > Construction
(Next Generation Partners)With director Simone Young, a transactional expert, heading up Davidson Chalmers Stewart‘s construction practice, the team is well-equipped to handle non-contentious matters. Clients, including developers and commercial tenants, instruct the team to assist with residential, mixed-use and refurbishment projects, as well as associated transactions, leases and loan facilities. It further draws on the firm’s wider dispute resolution group to provide a contentious offering.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Public sector > Health
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Real estate > Planning