Sheelagh is a Partner and Head of the firm's Edinburgh office, specialising in Real Estate Finance. She acts for many major financial institutions and lenders and also provides advice to borrowers on their funding requirements and associated documentation across a wide range of sectors.
Key sectors for Sheelagh are:
- living supporting developers and funders across residential for sale, PBSA, BTR, later living and care home projects
- clean energy and supporting developers, landowners and funders with renewable energy projects across the UK.
Sheelagh undertakes a range of real estate work such as acquisitions, disposals, and all aspects of leasing work and is regularly involved with insolvency and restructuring, acting for a range of insolvency practitioners and banks in, for example, reviewing security packages, advising, on real estate strategy and disposals.
Having spent time on secondment to a City of London firm earlier in her career, Sheelagh has significant experience of acting on large portfolio and multi-jurisdictional finance work, gained both during her time on secondment and subsequently.
Sheelagh is ranked as a Band 4 lawyer in 2025 Chambers Directory.
Her recent notable transactions include:
- acting for funder in relation to £6.5m refinance of proposed combined renewable energy generation and data centre site.
- leading team acting for funder in relation to multi-million finance for acquisition and development of large residential and commercial site in Ayrshire
- acting for lender in relation to multi-million refinance of mixed use development site in Central Scotland;
- acting for equity investor in relation to a number of PBSA and BTR developments across the UK, leading a multidisciplinary team across real estate, corporate, banking and construction
- acting for an automotive client in relation to acquisition of a number of portfolios of operational sites across the UK with combined deal value of over £100m
- acting for lender in £8m refinance of renewable energy company including multiple wind farm sites in Scotland
- acting for developer in acquisition of proposed PBSA development site in Dundee
- acting for PBSA developer of a proposed development site in Glasgow
Sheelagh is dual qualified in Scotland and England and Wales and is a notary public.