New leaders step up as Brodies prepares for the future
Press release
Managing Partner
Nick Scott
Nick Scott is Managing Partner of Brodies LLP. He works with the firm's Chair, Christine O'Neill KC, and its Strategic and Operational Boards to manage the overall strategic direction and operational performance of the firm. This includes responsibility for the financial performance of the firm and the implementation of the firm's strategic plans.
As former leader of the firm's real estate practice, Nick was known for the commerciality of approach which he brought to assisting clients with projects and deals. Having led that team for 8 years, Nick was elected to the role of Managing Partner in 2018, allowing him to apply that same commerciality to his management of the firm.
Living Brodies' values
Nick's overriding focus is to ensure that Brodies is the pre-eminent place in Scotland for clients to receive, and for the firm's colleagues to provide, first class legal advice. This includes ensuring colleagues demonstrate the firm’s values - of courage, character, care, and being collegiate and collaborative.
Highlights
- Board member of PRIME, the legal industry's social mobility platform.
- In his professional capacity, a leading real estate lawyer focused on development and investment transactions and former judge of the Scottish Property Awards.
- With fellow partners, adviser to APG in relation to the c£1bn redevelopment of the St James Centre, Edinburgh.
Rankings
- Ranked as Eminent Practitioner in Real Estate in Chambers UK 2024.
- Ranked in the Hall of Fame, and as a Leading Individual, in Legal 500 UK 2024.
“Nick Scott is an excellent lawyer to work with and does a very good job.”
Chambers UK 2023
Clients describe him as a 'particularly good lawyer' who is 'very strategic'.
Chambers UK 2020
