Neil is a Director in our Banking and Finance team, based in Edinburgh. His core practice areas are property finance, securitisation and structured finance, acquisition finance and corporate and commercial banking.

He acts for a number of lenders ranging from UK institutional lenders (including clearing banks and building societies) to private credit providers, debt funds, investors and lenders active in the SME lending space. Neil often works with the firm’s Restructuring and Business Advisory team on the finance aspects of debt restructurings and distressed business and property work-outs. In 2015, he completed a nine-month secondment in the corporate and business banking legal team of Clydesdale Bank, and in 2021 was seconded to the structured and asset-backed real estate finance team at Clifford Chance in London.

He retains an interest in law reform, having worked at the Scottish Law Commission earlier in his career, and he is a member of the SLC’s advisory group on Execution of Documents (and was previously a member of the advisory group on Moveable Transactions). He has also previously tutored on business and commercial law at Edinburgh Law School and Glasgow Law School.