About

With over 24 years experience, Marcus is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in debt recovery, insolvency (personal including recall, liquidation, administration), company restoration, director disqualification and misfeasance claims, disputes involving personal guarantees or indemnities, business, partnership and corporate disputes, trading standards, consumer rights and sale of goods and property disputes, commercial and other contractual disputes (including terms and conditions), disputes involving restrictive covenants, banking, finance, lending, borrowing and investment, professional negligence claims involving solicitors, accountants, financial advisers and surveyors, tax appeals and disputes and other related matters involving HMRC, property repossession, real estate, disputes within the construction industry including those involving main contractors, sub-contractors, trades, builder suppliers or merchants.

Marcus has years of experience handling commercial and residential lease disputes, including those involving HMOs, ownership, rights of way and boundary disputes. He has also acted in a number of investigatory matters involving regulators such as ICAS and the FCA. Marcus provides straightforward, no-nonsense, practical, tailored, cost effective legal and business advice.

Clients say that Marcus takes the weight from their shoulders and seeks resolution that suits their needs and their budget. Marcus has experience in pursuing and recovering low level debt up to complex multi-million pound disputes. 

Marcus helps construction professionals and contractors get paid. In the field of domestic and commercial building related disputes he has acted for private sector employers, (sub) contractors, and professionals/consultants in litigation, arbitration and adjudication.

Marcus is regularly called on to advise trades or those involved in manufacturing and installation on breach of contract, sale of goods, retention of title and insolvency. He also has experience acting for a number of management and letting agents in commercial and residential leasing matters, advising on the removal of tenants and unlawful occupiers, debt recovery and various related matters including licensing advice and representation. He has acted for owners, landlords, tenants and other occupiers in such matters. 

Marcus has a growing practice advising clients in private client disputes such as executries, unhappy beneficiaries and trustee disputes, proving the tenor actions and lost Wills.

He also has experience of advising and litigating disputes in the fields of banking, investment, debt factoring/invoice finance and commercial hire agreements. Marcus continues to be instructed in areas of personal and corporate insolvency and in respect of property repossession. He has a keen interest in education and in helping my clients to comprehend and find solutions to the daily challenges they face. 

Alistair has been a Solicitor practising in the field of dispute resolution and civil litigation for over 30 years representing clients in Sheriff Courts and Tribunals throughout Scotland.

He has a wide range of experience pursuing and defending cases for individuals and businesses, including companies, partnerships and charities.

His case load is diverse with a focus on higher value and complex disputes across a range of practice areas including commercial litigation, property and building disputes, boundary and land disputes, breach of contract, commercial and residential tenancy disputes, debt recovery, insolvency, negligence, personal injury, appeals to the Appeal Court, and other general civil litigation. He has experience also in alternative dispute resolution including mediation, arbitration, and round the table settlement discussions.

He is a Senior Associate based in our central belt office and part of the dispute resolution and litigation team. 

He provides straightforward and practical advice and takes a robust and pragmatic approach in order to achieve sound and practical solutions for clients in disputes both in and out of Court.

He has a range of expertise within and outwith the Court and Tribunal sphere. He has also been involved over the years as the instructing solicitor in cases before the Court of Session, the highest civil Court in Scotland.

He has built up a solid reputation within the profession and receives regular referrals from other legal firms to act for clients in difficult and contentious civil cases.