Siobhan is an experienced real estate lawyer, who advises pension funds, institutional investors, banks and private individuals.

She acts on a wide range of property transactions (including financing, sale/purchase, leasing and development projects) in various types of commercial real estate: hotels, retail and leisure, office, purpose-built student accommodation, industrial properties, and others.

She also frequently acts alongside Magic Circle and US law firms on the Scottish aspects of large cross-border real estate finance transactions.

Sector experience includes:

Real Estate and Infrastructure

Admitted

2013: Scotland

Relevant experience

Institutional Investment

Acting for Federated Hermes in their acquisition and subsequent asset management and leasing of Skypark, an office development in Glasgow with upwards of 70 occupational leases.
Acting for a pension fund in leasing work in relation to a Scottish retail outlet village.

Property Finance

Advising a consortium of lenders in the refinance of 12 purpose-built student accommodation sites in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen over three tranches as part of a larger UK portfolio.
Acting for the lenders in the refinance of a portfolio of 11 care home properties across Scotland.
Acting for the lenders in the financing of part of the redevelopment of the formal Royal Hospital for Sick Kids site in central Edinburgh.
Acting for the lenders on the 2025 refinance of the Silverburn Shopping Centre.
Acting for the lenders on the financing of PLATFORM in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest build-to-rent scheme.
Acting for the lenders in the financing of a portfolio of local authority leisure assets in 2019.
Assisting on the financing of a corporate acquisition of a portfolio of caravan sites across Scotland.

Leasing

Representing the occupier of an office development in Aberdeen in a complex lease regear, involving collapse of a sub-lease and assignation and variation of a head lease with multiple LBTT and land registration complexities.
Negotiation of operating leases for a major hotel operator in respect of four 5-star hotels in Glasgow and Edinburgh and subsequent lease management work.
Representing a Scottish public body in their new lease of office space in central Edinburgh.
Acting for a sole investor in relation to a business park in Stepps comprising industrial and office space.

Corporate Support

Supporting a Magic Circle firm with the acquisition of a major UK pub operator that owned around 80 properties in Scotland.

Development

Representing a US client in the acquisition and ongoing development of a new golf resort near St Andrews.
Acting for a landowner in the sale and development of land near Edinburgh Airport for a new hotel.
Assisting with the due diligence and development agreement for a housebuilder site in Aberdeenshire.