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Your Trusted Scottish Legal Partner
At Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop, we redefine legal excellence through a pioneering, people-first approach that breaks barriers in Scotland's legal sector. With over 250 years of combined experience across our team, we serve businesses, organisations, and individuals throughout Scotland and beyond. Our sector-driven expertise spans technology, video games, life sciences, agriculture, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing, ensuring tailored solutions for clients from high-growth startups to FTSE 100 companies. We prioritise clear communication, commercial acumen, and deep legal knowledge to minimise risk while maximising opportunities for innovation. Our relationships are built on trust, commitment, and extensive expertise, with offices in every major Scottish city providing local insight and national reach.Recognised in both Legal 500 and Chambers, we deliver results in corporate transactions, commercial contracts, real estate, dispute resolution, and regulatory matters. By championing transparency and opportunity, we've cultivated a team of Scotland's brightest legal minds who combine technical excellence with human understanding. Whether navigating financial adversity, intellectual property challenges, or employment law complexities, we ensure every client feels genuinely understood and confidently represented. Our vision drives us to reshape the legal landscape through innovation while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and client care.
Services
Corporate Law
Commercial Real Estate
Dispute Resolution
Employment Law
Regulatory Law
Rural Land & Business
Restructuring & Insolvency
IP, Tech & Data Law
Highlights and features
- We adopt a sector-driven approach to legal challenges
- Our team combines commercial acumen with technical legal expertise
- We deliver tailored solutions for Scotland's key economic sectors
- We maintain Legal 500 and Chambers rankings for excellence
- Our offices provide local insight across all major Scottish cities
Services
Corporate Law
Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop' Corporate Law practice provides sector-driven legal solutions for businesses at all growth stages. Our expertise covers mergers and acquisitions, investment rounds, corporate restructuring, and cross-border transactions. We specialise in technology, video games, life sciences, and energy sectors, delivering strategic counsel that aligns with commercial objectives while maintaining compliance with evolving regulations.
Commercial Real Estate
Our Commercial Real Estate team offers comprehensive legal services for property transactions across Scotland. We handle sales, purchases, leasing, financing, and renewable energy projects with strategic counsel from property identification through final execution. Our specialists provide innovative solutions for developers, investors, and businesses navigating Scotland's commercial property market with sector-specific expertise.
Dispute Resolution
Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop' Dispute Resolution practice delivers practical solutions for commercial conflicts through litigation, arbitration, or mediation. We handle complex cases in insolvency, property disputes, professional negligence, and regulatory matters. Our team combines courtroom experience with commercial awareness to protect client interests while seeking efficient resolutions that minimise business disruption.
Employment Law
Our Employment Law specialists provide strategic guidance on all aspects of employer-employee relationships. Services include contract drafting, disciplinary procedures, discrimination claims, redundancy processes, and tribunal representation. We offer bespoke training programs and data protection compliance solutions tailored to Scottish businesses across multiple sectors.
IP, Tech & Data Law
This practice area focuses on intellectual property protection, data privacy, and technology law for innovators. We advise on software development, AI, fintech, IoT, and data governance while providing strategic IP management. Our team helps tech companies navigate regulatory challenges and commercialise innovations through licensing agreements and commercial contracts.
People
Kirk Dailly
Partner
Kirk Dailly leads Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop' IP, Tech & Data practice with extensive experience in technology law, intellectual property, and data privacy. He advises Scottish innovators on commercialising digital assets while maintaining compliance with evolving regulations.
Neil Robb
Partner
Neil Robb heads the Commercial Real Estate team with deep expertise in property transactions, renewable energy projects, and development financing. He represents major Scottish developers and investors in complex real estate matters across multiple sectors.
Simon Allison
Partner
Simon Allison leads the Employment Law practice, providing strategic workplace law advice to Scottish businesses. His expertise covers complex employment disputes, tribunal representation, and sector-specific regulatory compliance for public and private sector clients.
Philip Buchan
Partner
Philip Buchan specialises in rural land law with particular focus on agricultural estates, forestry, and land development. He advises landowners, farmers, and conservation bodies on property transactions and regulatory compliance across Scotland.
Fiona Muirs
Managing Partner
Fiona Muirs serves as Managing Partner with expertise in restructuring and insolvency law. She leads complex corporate recovery cases while overseeing Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop' strategic direction and commitment to reshaping Scotland's legal landscape through innovation.
Questions
What areas of law does Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop specialise in?
Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop specialises in corporate law, commercial real estate, dispute resolution, employment law, regulatory matters, rural land issues, and technology/IP law, with sector-specific expertise in Scotland's key industries.
Do you offer legal services for Scottish businesses outside major cities?
Yes, we provide legal services across all of Scotland with local expertise through our offices in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, serving both urban and rural clients.
How does Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop handle cross-border legal transactions?
Our corporate and real estate teams have extensive experience with cross-border transactions, supported by membership in the Legus International network for global legal collaboration.
What makes Blackadders Aberdeen Property Shop different from other Scottish law firms?
We combine sector-specific knowledge with a people-first approach, maintaining Legal 500 and Chambers rankings while prioritising clear communication and commercial solutions tailored to Scottish market needs.
Can I get specialist legal advice for technology companies?
Yes, our IP, Tech & Data team provides specialist advice on software development, AI, fintech, IoT, and data privacy issues, helping Scottish tech innovators protect and commercialise their intellectual property.
Do you offer employment law training for businesses?
We provide bespoke employment law training programs to help Scottish businesses stay compliant with workplace regulations and develop effective HR policies tailored to their specific needs.
Reviews (3)
Graham
Jul 04, 2021
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Straight up has some of the finest properties and a website that works, promoting properties in the North East we should promote back.
Ildiko Rafain
Feb 12, 2021
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Critical:Professionalism
One star goes to the Aberdeen office, re property sale. Absolutely unprofessional, they dont return calls or emails in timely manner, one of the agents particularly was rude and lacking any professionalism/courtesy. Very difficult to do business with them.
One star goes to the Aberdeen office, re property sale. Absolutely unprofessional, they dont return calls or emails in timely manner, one of the agents particularly was rude and lacking any professionalism/courtesy. Very difficult to do business with them.
Margaret Ann
May 27, 2020
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I was needing update and queries answered. The woman I spoke to, Eileen, working for Blackadders, Edinburgh branch was very helpful and answered all my questions. She was very pleasant and professional.
