Iain MacLeod
Job title
Partner
Office
Chichester
Direct line
01243 813157
Responsibilities
Commercial Property, in particular:
- Acquisition, development, disposal and letting of commercial and agricultural property
- Landlord and Tenant (acting for investors, property companies, landlords, tenants, farmers, and landowners)
- Advising charities on all property related matters
- Legal adviser to and Trustee/Director of a number of charities
Profile
Iain trained with Freshfields and was admitted in 1980. After a spell in Freshfields' Commercial Property Department he joined Downs of Dorking, becoming an equity partner in 1982. He stayed with Downs until he joined Thomas Eggar in July 2001. Whilst at Downs he was Head of the Commercial Property Department, Chairman of the firm's management committee and a member of the firm's business development forum. Iain was elected as the firm's Deputy Managing Partner in May 2004.Types of client
- Investors
- Property companies
- Charities
- Landlords and tenants
- Landowners and farmers
Achievements & other appointments
- Member of the Agricultural Law Association and Country Land and Business Association
- Notary Public
- Head of the Property Division (2006-2009)
- Head of the Rural Business and Estates Team (2005-2008)
- Deputy Managing Partner (2004-2006)
- Director of The Lifetrain Trust, a youth charity
- Trustee of and legal adviser to The Denbies Trust
- Trustee of St Kilda Trust, registered charity
- Chair of The William Cole Church Music Trust
- Member of Executive Committee of CADIA (Gatwick Diamond Association)