Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Residential property work sits within the private wealth and tax team and covers buying and selling homes in Scotland with advice on land and buildings transaction tax and the additional dwelling supplement, investment and overseas purchases, relocation to the UK and sales from executries. The emphasis is on tax and estate planning for private clients rather than volume conveyancing. A costs information document is linked from the page.

• Dedicated residential property page within the private client practice
• Price transparency costs document linked from the page

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The employment team advises on day to day matters such as discipline, grievances and industrial relations, the employment aspects of corporate transactions and restructuring, and Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal claims. It also offers training and an HR consultancy service. The page refers to a wide range of clients but the services described are geared to employers. The head of employment has an Edinburgh number.

• Listed in Tier 3 of the Legal 500 Scotland employment ranking
• Combined employment and immigration practice with a dedicated employment sub-page
• Tribunal and appeal work alongside HR consultancy

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The private client team prepares wills for individuals and families with substantial or complex assets, combining them with tax planning, trusts, asset protection, charitable giving, powers of attorney and succession planning for rural and business assets. One of the named wills partners has a Glasgow number. Information about costs is published in a separate price transparency document.

• Listed in Tier 1 of the Legal 500 Scotland ranking for Personal tax, trusts and executries
• Dedicated wills, trusts and power of attorney pages
• Partner Alexis Graham is a named wills contact with a Glasgow number

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The executry service runs from obtaining confirmation in Scotland or probate in England and Wales through to winding up the estate, including inheritance tax reliefs, complex and cross-border assets, property sales, deeds of variation and legal rights claims. Disputed estates can be passed to the firm's litigation team. The service is part of the private client practice for executors and beneficiaries of larger estates.

• Listed in Tier 1 of the Legal 500 Scotland ranking for Personal tax, trusts and executries
• Dedicated executries page listing tax and multi-jurisdiction work
• Named contacts include a Glasgow partner

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The corporate and commercial team advises companies, investors and growth businesses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, equity capital markets, commercial contracts, intellectual property, data protection and employee share schemes. Sector focus includes renewable energy, technology and life sciences. This service is aimed at businesses rather than private individuals, and the page does not publish fees.

• Listed in Tier 2 of the Legal 500 Scotland ranking for Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Dedicated corporate and commercial practice with several named partners
• Glasgow city centre office

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The immigration team advises organisations on sponsor licences, right to work compliance and strategy, and handles visa applications, disputes and British citizenship applications for individuals. It is led by a director who heads immigration and works alongside the private client team for clients relocating to the UK. Most of the work described is business immigration.

• Listed in Tier 3 of the Legal 500 Scotland immigration ranking
• Dedicated immigration sub-page and named head of immigration
• Covers both sponsor compliance and individual citizenship applications

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The dispute resolution team handles commercial litigation and arbitration, banking, construction, energy, insolvency, pensions and shareholder disputes, professional negligence, product liability, defamation, real estate and rural disputes, public law challenges and debt recovery. The firm has four in-house solicitor advocates. Work is mainly for businesses and public bodies, with a private wealth disputes service for individuals and families.

• Listed in Tier 2 of the Legal 500 Scotland commercial litigation ranking
• Four in-house solicitor advocates, per the firm site
• Wide range of dispute types with dedicated sub-pages, including professional negligence

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