Elaine has more extensive experience in the real estate sector, with a particular area of expertise being large scale property development and the management and supervision of personnel resourcing multi-property transactions. Elaine's primary focus is the renewable energy sector (offshore and onshore).
Elaine trained and qualified in Scotland in 1997, and thereafter re-qualified in England and Wales in 2000 whilst working in London.
Our English property team operates as one team across all of our offices. Elaine works between our London and Glasgow offices and heads up the Scottish-based personnel in the English property team, in addition to leading the firm's property sub-team which specialises in English and Welsh renewable energy work. Elaine advises a number of our energy clients on their English and Welsh projects (onshore and offshore), including new option agreements/leases; site assembly; easements and land rights; highway and infrastructure agreements; DCO/CPO property support; and variations of operational projects.
In addition, Elaine has long-standing relationships with a number of the firm’s clients across a variety of disciplines. Clients include house builders, investors (including forestry), developers, hotel operators, funders, corporate occupiers and healthcare providers.
- Leading the team advising on the property aspects of the Outer Dowsing/Round 4 offshore wind project.
- Advising ScottishPower Renewables on various aspects of two East Anglia offshore wind projects.
- Advising a consortium in relation to its Celtic Sea/Round 5 bid.
- Advising various offshore developers on bird nesting leases (and related option agreements and collaboration agreements with other developers of adjacent projects).
- Advising various clients (confidential) on option agreements for BESS and solar sites throughout England and Wales.
- Advising an energy client (confidential) in relation to the acquisition of six English/Welsh option sites (wind, solar and battery).
Elaine has a Post Graduate Diploma in English Commercial Property Development, Planning & Environmental Law and was first recommended for project work and English real estate development in the 2006 edition of Legal 500.
