Specialist Legal Support for Law Firms
Specialist Legal Support from Biggart Baillie – Clarity, Confidence & Communication.
Biggart Baillie provides fast and effective legal support to other law firms throughout Scotland and the UK. Many firms think of us as their emergency commercial legal service.
Catering for law firms that may be too small to justify having the full range of specialist legal services internally; Biggart Baillie provides specialist services such as Commercial Litigation, Pensions, Tax, Intellectual Property, Planning, Corporate and Health & Safety to other law firms. Our guaranteed response times mean that exceptional legal support is never far away.
Biggart Baillie offers a full complement of seven specialist legal services and expertise on a non-competitive basis. You can leave the complex legal headache to us and concentrate on maintaining and building your relationship with your client and your core legal practice. We'll keep you informed of progress every step of the way so you'll always feel that you're up to speed with developments.
With Biggart Baillie’s support, you’ll never need turn away a client instruction or request for help, whether it be Scotland, UK or internationally.
If you require legal support tailored to the specific needs of your practice and your clients, look no further than Biggart Baillie. We have been working with other law firms since 1894 and have long lasting partnerships built through client confidence and satisfaction.
For further information please contact Iain McLean on 0131 226 5541.
Specialist Services Available:
Energy & Renewables
Martin Sales, Partner
email: msales@biggartbaillie.co.uk
tel: 0131 226 5541
Martin and the team bring together extensive energy expertise from throughout the UK. As one of Scotland's leading advisers in the energy sectors with significant expertise in the renewable, oil, gas and electricity industries, our experience is second to none. Our clients include those involved in creating, transporting, distributing and supplying oil, gas, electricity and telecoms. Read more about Martin.
Commercial Litigation
Brent Haywood, Partner
email: bhaywood@biggartbaillie.co.uk
tel: 0131 226 5541
Passion and determination are the two words which would best sum up our dispute management partner, Brent Haywood. Commended for his pragmatic problem-solving approach, Brent is an experienced commercial litigator with more than fifteen years' experience in handling complex cases in various jurisdictions. One of our four solicitor advocates, his caseload is primarily in the Commercial Court of the Court of Session. Read more about Brent.
Pensions
June Crombie, Partner
email: jcrombie@biggartbaillie.co.uk
tel: 0141 228 8000
June has been involved in pensions law since 1987 when she qualified as a solicitor. Since that time, she has specialised in pensions law and practice. June is highly respected and her experience includes: advice to employers, trustees and advisers, work on documentation, commercial transactions, contentious aspects of pensions, working with other pensions professionals and advising insolvency practitioners. Read more about June.
Tax
Ronnie Brown, Partner
email: rbrown@biggartbaillie.co.uk
tel: 0141 228 8341
Ronnie specialises in tax efficient structuring of corporate finance transactions (including mergers and acquisitions and venture capital investments) and commercial property sales and acquisitions. He also advises clients upon tax efficient forms of share inventive schemes for officers and employees. Read more about Ronnie.
Intellectual Property
Colin Miller, Partner
email: cmiller@biggartbaillie.co.uk
tel: 0141 228 8000
Colin heads up the IP and Technology Group. He is recognised as a specialist in intellectual property law has received acknowledgements in Chambers as a specialist who "knows what he's about". Colin is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in intellectual property and also sits on the Law Society Committee on intellectual property. Colin advises on all aspects of intellectual property law including registrability of trade marks; branding; patents; protection of know how; database rights and design rights. Read more about Colin.
Planning
Murray Shaw, Partner
email: mshaw@biggartbaillie.co.uk
tel: 0141 228 8000
Murray who has been a partner at Biggart Baillie for over 20 years, is regarded one of the country’s leading planning lawyers and is accredited by the Law Society as a specialist in Planning and Building Contract Law. Murray acts for a range of parties in relation to planning issues including developers and local authorities. His experience includes commercial, housing and energy developments. Read more about Murray.
Corporate / Corporate Recovery
Derek Ellery, Partner
email: dellery@biggartbaillie.co.uk
tel: 0141 228 8000
Derek is a partner in our Corporate Department. He has significant experience of corporate finance and commercial deals including corporate recovery. Read more about Derek.
Supporting these service areas, we also have a number of Law Society Accredited Specialists across the firm who can also advise on particularly challenging or complex issues:
- Intellectual Property - Colin Miller
- Commercial Mediation - Alison Grant and Martin Sales
- Pensions Law - June Crombie, Colin Greig and Iain Talman
- Planning Law - Murray Shaw and Martin Sales
- Construction Law - Murray Shaw
- Commercial Property Leasing - Iain McHardy
- Employment Law - Paul Brown
- Child Law – Jennifer Spence
What our referrers say about us:
“From time to time it is of vital importance to be able to gain access to specialist advice and we have found that for employment law matters Biggart Baillie is approachable, knowledgeable and acts with alacrity. We have been pleased to seek their advice and on our own behalf and have been able with confidence to refer our client there”
Robin M Braidwood, Braidwoods Solicitors, Dumfries
"We have been delighted by the service given by Biggart Baillie to this firm in relation to employment matters and also in relation to our clients who we refer to Biggarts. Employment Law is not one of our areas of expertise and it is good to be able to refer onto someone who is first rate at the job."
David Adie, Adie Hunter.
We would very much like to work with you and would welcome the chance to discuss how we can provide cost effective legal solutions for you. Please contact Iain McLean to arrange an appointment on 0131 226 5541 or imclean@biggartbaillie.co.uk.