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  • Estate purchases and sales having a combined value close to £30,000,000, including the largest single Estate purchase (approximately £7,000,000) in  2008.
  • Numerous Leases, Prospecting Agreements and other preliminary and Assembly Agreements for coal, sand and gravel, coal bed methane, gold and other minerals.
  • Seventeen major windfarm transactions including negotiation of option, access, exclusivity and development agreements.
  • Involvement in 12 Land Court, 6 Court of Session, 4 Lands Tribunal and several Sheriff Court cases covering a diverse and wide range of topics, including claims to secure agricultural tenancies, removal of tenants, declarator that a Lease existed, specification of and liability for the repair and renewal of fixed equipment, compensation for improvements, the effects of Post Lease and Right Down Agreements, Resumption, Rent Review, the exercise of Reserved Sporting Rights and Diversification.
  • Numerous forestry sales and purchases, with a combined value in excess of £10,000,000.
  • Negotiating, unravelling and re-negotiating several development options.
  • Acting as specialist advisers in Agricultural Law to some 12 regional and national firms of solicitors.
  • Alasdair Fox has a regular column in The Law Society of Scotland Journal and is frequently quoted in the press. Other members of the Department, including Jim Drysdale, John Mitchell and Adele Nicol, have also had exposure in press articles.