Sheelagh is a Partner specialising in Real Estate Finance, acting 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.