Our People

Bill Gibson

Partner & Chairman

Bill has practised in commercial environments since 1988. He is also our Chairman and is charged with directing the development of the company and representing the company externally. He has a broad based experience in commercial law including property development (residential and commercial), licensed and unlicensed commercial contracts, bank finance and renewable energy. Bill acts for both borrowers and lending institutions in refinancing transactions, land option deals for various renewable energy developments and corporate business sale and acquisitions.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4950

Email: bgibson@ennova-law.com

Karen Ramsey

Partner

Karen is a Partner in our Private Client division dealing with all aspects of Wills, Powers of Attorney and Executries for our clients. She is also a member of the Residential Property team within the firm taking on residential sales, purchases and re-mortgages as well as new build developments (from purchase of the development site, site assembly and deed of conditions through to the sale of individual units). She also has many years of experience in security work for both commercial and individual clients.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4954

Email: kramsey@ennova-law.com

John Cumming

Partner

John has practiced in Edinburgh and Tayside for over 20 years and has extensive experience in the corporate, commercial and real estate fields. In recent years John has taken on many renewable energy transactions acting for developers and land owners in the wind and hydro sectors. John also deals with many corporate transactions including company share sales and acquisitions, lease transactions and acting on behalf of property developers.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4952

Email: jcumming@ennova-law.com

Keith Dunlop

Partner

Keith is a Partner in our commercial team. Keith qualified from the University of Edinburgh with LLB (Hons), where he also obtained his Diploma in Legal Practice, and completed an MSc in Real Estate Management and Development at Heriot-Watt University in 2014. Keith has experience of all aspects of real estate transactions, including investment acquisitions and sales, commercial leasing and development work, and has also advised on insolvency disposals and undertaken security work. Prior to joining Ennova Keith worked for the Organising Committees of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4969

Email: kdunlop@ennova-law.com

Ross Kennedy

Consultant

Ross deals with all aspects of real estate transaction for clients and banks and with particular experience in property investment and development and renewable energy projects. Ross qualified as a solicitor in Scotland in 1989 and as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1997. Ross also acts for funders and has deal structuring experience for private joint venture arrangements. Ross is a former part time tutor at the University of Edinburgh tutoring in Commercial Leasing in the Professional Practice Post Graduate Unit.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4951

Email: rkennedy@ennova-law.com

David Wilson

Partner

David has over 25 years of experience of contracts, dispute resolution and family law work. He regularly represents clients’ interests in the Scottish Courts and can also provide advice on alternative forms of dispute resolution such as arbitration and mediation. He is involved in advising clients on all manners of different contract disputes, professional negligence, divorce and separation, in addition to a wide range of land and property matters. David particularly enjoys planning matters and has considerable public enquiry work experience.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4956

Email: dwilson@ennova-law.com

Fraser Morrison

Partner

Fraser is Partner of Property, Business and Licensing Law. Based in our Dundee office, he is experienced in all aspects of commercial property including acquisitions and disposals, investments and landlord and tenant work. Fraser also deals with property finance and acts for lenders in secured lending transactions.

Contact

Phone: 01382 723 763

Email: fmorrison@ennova-law.com

Mark Harris

Head of Private Client Services

Mark has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of Private Client Work including Wills, Powers of Attorney and Executries for our clients. He holds a Diploma from the Society of Law Accounts in Scotland through The Law Society of Scotland. Mark also has many years of experience in Trust administration and accounting together with managing clients finances on their behalf on the instructions of their Attorney.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4960

Email: mharris@ennova-law.com

Rosie Seaward

Associate

Rosie is an Associate in our dispute resolution team. Rosie graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2009. She is also a part-time tutor in Family Law at the University of Edinburgh. Rosie has a varied caseload which includes advising clients on financial provision and child law matters on divorce, cohabitation claims, and the drafting of prenuptial, pre-civil partnership contracts and cohabitation agreements. She also undertakes more general dispute resolution work including guardianship applications, commercial disputes, debt recovery and regularly appears in the Sheriff Court on behalf of her clients.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4957

Email: rseaward@ennova-law.com

Ralph Hardie

Associate

Senior Solicitor

Ralph is an Associate in our Real Estate team. Ralph graduated from the Edinburgh Napier University in 2011, undertaking his Legal Diploma at University of Edinburgh in 2012 and joined the Firm as a Trainee shortly thereafter. Ralph has a varied caseload which includes aspects of commercial property including acquisitions and disposals, leasing for both landlord and tenant work and property finance for both borrowers and lenders. Ralph is also a member of our Energy Renewables team in relation to all aspects of on-shore wind farm developments.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4959

Email: rhardie@ennova-law.com

Lynn Simpson

Associate

Lynn is a Senior Associate in Property & Licensing, Lynn deals with a wide range of property transactions, with a particular focus on both residential development and the hospitality industry. She also has a special interest in licensing, so can advise clients on all aspects of alcohol and civic government licensing.Amongst others, she has acted for families moving house, businesses buying and selling commercial premises, community groups acquiring land, and for housebuilders creating new housing development sites. Lynn has also represented a variety of licensing clients, including international hoteliers, national supermarket operators, independent restauranteurs, and community sports groups.

Toby Kennedy

Legal Executive

Toby acts for a variety of commercial clients within our commercial team. In particular, he carries out work on all aspects of residential and commercial purchases and sales, development land purchases, site assembly, preparation of Deeds of Conditions, and options and licence agreements. Toby achieved his Paralegal (LSSAP) qualification with merit in 2017.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4966

Email: tkennedy@ennova-law.com

Amy Kinmond

Paralegal

Amy is a qualified Paralegal within the Commercial team and works on a variety of property transactions. She joined Ennova in 2016, working towards her paralegal qualification which she achieved from the Law Society in 2019. Amy also achieved her MA in English at University of Dundee in 2011, and her Masters MSc in Real Estate Development and Investment from Napier University in 2015.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 6804

Email: akinmond@ennova-law.com

Christian K B Melville

Consultant

Christian specialises in tax and estate planning and advises generally on succession issues, inheritance tax mitigation, trust law, charity law, and asset protection. A member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Christian has previously been a member of the Investor Protection Committee of the Law Society of Scotland, and a nominated Foreign and Commonwealth Office Secondee to OSCE.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 6806

Email: cmelville@ennova-law.com

John Nimmo

Consultant

John Nimmo is an experienced corporate, funds and investment company and investment services lawyer. He has acted on listings in aggregate around £2bn on the LSE (including setting up new investment companies and over twenty full prospectuses), and has launched unlisted investment vehicles. John has also acted on both hostile and recommended public takeover offers (always on the winning side). He has previously advised funds managed by a wide number of the major investment houses and has advised corporate and individual clients on a wide range of acquisitions and investments as well as having helped a number of clients obtain FCA Authorisation. John has extensive experience of helping start up, spin out and growth companies, acting variously for management, the company and investors. He also has first hand experience of starting a business which is rare among lawyers.

Contact

Phone: 0131 220 9571

Email: john.nimmo@rooneynimmo.co.uk

Ross Thompson

Solicitor

Ross is a solicitor and notary public within the corporate team. Ross provides advice on a variety of corporate and commercial matters including M&A, private equity investment, corporate restructuring, company start-ups, commercial contract review and company secretarial matters. Ross studied Law at the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 2016 before completing the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Edinburgh in 2018.Ross joined Ennova Law as a solicitor in 2021 on completion of his traineeship with corporate boutique firm Blackwood Partners LLP.

Contact

Phone: 0131 510 4955

Email: RThompson@ennova-law.com