Alastair Shepherd

Partner

Edinburgh

contact details

• AShepherd@hbj-gw.com
• dt: +44 (0) 131 222 9832
• df: +44 (0) 131 222 9800
• m: +44 (0) 7501 228 736

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Expertise

Alastair is a Notary Public (registered with the FCO), Writer to the Signet and highly regarded rural real estate and agricultural lawyer.

Experience

Rural conveyancing, in particular agricultural property matters, country estate purchase, sale and management, salmon fishing rights and barony titles. Also acts for a wide spectrum of private clients involved in all aspects of real estate.

Successes

Purchase of Barony Title for expatriate Scottish lady keen to connect with her Scottish roots.

Putting client with idea for a film in touch with film director client and dealing with contract work relative thereto.

Purchase of "missing jigsaw" of highland estate title involving complex planning condition removal.

Sale of redundant Aberdeenshire sawmill to cheese producer.

Sale of plots for Latvian log cabins on behalf of ecologically minded developments clients.

Bringing to a conclusion trust saga previously handled by another Edinburgh firm for last 80 years and permitting Trustee concerned to hand over remaining assets to new family property trust.

Interests

Alastair enjoys walking the old Drove roads across the Lammermuir Hills. He also has an interest in scraping moss off old family gravestones and related genealogical research.