"Knowledgeable, commercial, diligent and attentive to clients' needs" Chambers UK 2024
PartnerMatt Farrell
"He's proactive, he knows his stuff and he is helpful and forward thinking" Chambers 2024
PartnerGareth Hale
"Attention to detail is second to none"- Chambers & Partners 2024
PartnerLucie Barnes
Our dedicated teams of Scottish and English lawyers work in partnership with our clients across the UK to facilitate early dispute-avoidance strategies and to resolve your real estate disputes.
Recognised for our commercial focus and expertise, the size and stature of our team means we are regularly instructed on high value and complex disputes, litigating in the Court of Session, Sheriff courts, Lands Tribunal and Land Court in Scotland, as well as the higher courts and tribunals in England; and have a significant practice in arbitration.
We have extensive experience of commercial landlord and tenant disputes, telecommunications, trespassers, rights to light, party wall matters, interferences with and disputes about land, tenant insolvency, non-domestic rates and land and rural business claims.
With diverse sector experience, our clients include: institutional investors and lenders, retail and leisure tenants, housebuilders, telecoms operators, the hospitality sector, commercial and residential developers, and rural estates.
Brodies' depth of resource is a defining characteristic of the firm. It has all the expertise I need.
Chambers UK 2024
Brodies is able to allocate the right level of experienced litigators to the job and we have confidence there is always an experienced team behind the advice we are given.
Chambers UK 2024
The team's attention to detail is second to none.
Chambers UK 2024
Real Estate Litigation key highlights
- Instructed in high value dilapidations cases on the enforcement of payment obligations in Scotland, including Grove Investments Ltd v Cape Building Products Ltd, @SIPP (Pension Trustees) Ltd v Insight Travel Services Ltd, Mapeley Acquisition Co (3) Limited (in Receivership) v City of Edinburgh Council, and Drum Income Plus Ltd v LS Buchanan Ltd.
- Expert ratings dispute team with experience in valuation appeals, most notably acting in Covid-19 related rating appeals in Scotland.
- Acting for a telecoms operator in a dispute with a site provider in England, seeking to terminate a telecoms agreement, involving complex issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and statutory powers under the Telecoms Code.
- Acting in a multi-million-pound English dilapidation action on behalf of a local authority client.
- Litigating in the High Court in London on behalf of a global client, in a dispute with the landlord of its English headquarters undertaking works to the building. The dispute involved various breaches of lease covenants and building damage.
Extremely professional and always maintaining a commercial view of the issues involved.
Legal 500 UK 2024
Their technical knowledge is always up to date and delivered in a concise and helpful manner.
Legal 500 UK 2024
