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Gillespie Macandrew to Sponsor First-Ever ‘Guard of Honour’ at the 2025 Howden Melrose Sevens

Gillespie Macandrew is proud to announce that our firm will sponsor the first-ever 'Guard of Honour' at the historic 2025 Howden Melrose Sevens tournament.

Easter Bunny Blues: Navigating Pet Custody

Rachael Burke explains how Pet Custody unfolds when a relationship breaks down.

ScotLand Matters Podcast: 20 Years at SLE

Robert Scott-Dempster and David Johnston join SLE's Chief Executive Sarah-Jane Laing's as she marks her 20th year at the organisation.

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17 April 2025 | Time to read: 2 mins

Gillespie Macandrew to Sponsor First-Ever ‘Guard of Honour’ at the 2025 Howden Melrose Sevens

By Robert Graham-Campbell , Sandy Telfer

Gillespie Macandrew is proud to announce that our firm will sponsor the first-ever 'Guard of Honour' at the historic 2025 Howden Melrose Sevens tournament.

15 April 2025 | Time to read: 3 mins

Easter Bunny Blues: Navigating Pet Custody

By Rachael Burke

Rachael Burke explains how Pet Custody unfolds when a relationship breaks down.

15 April 2025 | Time to read: 1 min

ScotLand Matters Podcast: 20 Years at SLE

By Robert Scott-Dempster

Robert Scott-Dempster and David Johnston join SLE's Chief Executive Sarah-Jane Laing's as she marks her 20th year at the organisation.

09 April 2025 | Time to read: 6 mins

The increasing Scope of Right to Work Checks

By Fraser Vandal

Fraser Vandal explores details of the latest changes in right to work checks in the UK.

Alexandra Irwin

Associate, Energy and Strategic Land

Alex is an Associate in our Energy and Strategic Land Team and her focus is to advise on the property aspects of renewable energy transactions and projects. Alex has considerable experience in large-scale energy projects, including onshoring land requirements of offshore wind farms and major onshore, solar, battery storage and pumped hydro projects across Scotland.

Sector experience includes:

  • Assisting with securing land rights and funding for an onshore cable corridor for a 882MW offshore wind farm;
  • Advising a developer on the repowering of a wind farm;
  • The extension of a large onshore windfarm;
  • Advising a renewable energy developer on adding secondary technology to an existing renewable energy development;
  • Advising a developer and negotiating land agreements for an energy park; and
  • Advising landowners on land agreements relating to a large solar and wind farm developments.

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