Rory Paterson

Rory Paterson

Senior Associate
Edinburgh
About

Rory is a skilled commercial property lawyer with over 8 years' experience across the full range of real estate disciplines.

He specialises in investment property and has worked on a number of notable cross border portfolio transactions. Rory has a particular focus on the industrial, retail and leisure market and acts for a broad range of clients.

Rory also has significant experience dealing with property development and real estate finance.

Areas of FocusReal EstateHealthcareConsumer Goods, Food and RetailIndustrials
Professional QualificationsAdmitted as a Solicitor with the Law Society of Scotland

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising an American investment fund on the purchase and thereafter refinance of all Village Hotels in the UK.
  • Advising a financial services mutual and a pension fund on the investment acquisitions of prime industrial facilities at Eurocentral, Glasgow.
  • Advising an American private equity firm on the purchase and thereafter refinance of a cross border industrial portfolio.
  • Advising an American investment fund on the purchase of retail parks in Fife, Aberdeen, Inverness.
  • Acting for administrators in the sale of a 4-storey office block in Glasgow city centre.
  • Acting for an American investment fund on the purchase of 4 ASDA supermarkets in Scotland (part of a cross border portfolio of over 20 supermarkets).
  • Advising a local authority pension fund on the acquisition of an Edinburgh city centre PBSA investment (including negotiation of a new operator management agreement).
  • Acting for a Dutch investment fund on the purchase and thereafter refinance and management of a significant retail, hospitality and leisure complex in Edinburgh city centre.
  • Advising the UK's largest private healthcare provide on the acquisition of a healthcare and hospitality facility in Glasgow.
  • Advising Heineken on its Scottish pub portfolio.
Languages
  • English
Education

  • University of Edinburgh, Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, 2014

  • University of Aberdeen, LLB, 2013

Prior Experience

  • 2016 - 2022 - Senior Associate, Scottish national law firm
CallvCardLinkedInPrint

Connect

Phone

+44 131 345 5182
(Work, Edinburgh)
+44 743 685 8218
(Mobile, Edinburgh)