Ramsay is a Partner in our market leading White Collar Crime & Investigations team.

Described by clients as “a really good communicator” who “provides very good advice”, his focus is advising clients to manage risks associated with compliance incidents. 

He has significant expertise in Financial Crime matters including anti-bribery & corruption, fraud, tax evasion, ESG, money laundering and sanctions. He regularly advises on corporate criminal liability.

In addition, Ramsay has over 14 years’ experience supporting clients in relation to Health & Safety incidents including fatalities. He also regularly advises on regulatory matters including environmental, wildlife crime, trading standards, security licensing and product safety.

Ramsay works with organisations to develop robust compliance frameworks in order to manage risk and protect reputation.

Where concerns are identified, he has significant experience of guiding both UK and international clients through internal investigations, often in relation to high-profile and reputationally sensitive matters.

He is also an expert in advising clients facing investigation by specialist UK regulators.

Ramsay’s advocacy experience includes representing clients in court and through other enforcement proceedings.

Valued by clients for his “consistency, strategic thinking, and direct approach", Ramsay is ranked by Chambers UK for Financial Crime and Health and Safety.  He is also ranked by The Legal 500 in the Crime: Fraud category.

Memberships: Member of the Fraud Lawyers Association

Jill is a Partner in BTO’s clinical defence team which is ranked Band 1 by Chambers UK. Legal 500 identifies Jill as a rising star in the “medical negligence: defender” category.    

Jill represents doctors and dentists in proceedings brought before their professional regulators, the General Medical Council and the General Dental Council. She has also presented cases on behalf of professional regulators in proceedings brought against teachers and actuaries. 

Jill also represents clinicians in civil claims involving allegations of medical negligence in the sheriff court and in the Court of Session. She has assisted in Fatal Accident Inquiries and was involved in defending doctors in two long running public inquiries.   Jill has completed two secondments to the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland’s legal department.

Mark is a Partner and a Solicitor Advocate in our Insurance Litigation Department. He deals with complex claims arising in a variety of areas of insurance litigation including catastrophic injury / fatal claims. He has significant experience in defending claims which include elements of fraud, material exaggeration, and pain disorder cases including chronic pain, somatoform and fibromyalgia and developing strategies to defend such claims.

He also acts in the defence of clinical negligence and professional indemnity claims. His recent experience has seen him acting for higher and further education institutions in claims for damages arising from discrimination, appearing before the Additional Support Needs, First Tier Tribunal for Scotland.

His practice as a Solicitor Advocate has developed since admission in 2018. He has a great deal of court experience conducting proofs on behalf of clients in the Sheriff Court. He appears in Court of Session and has, in the last two years, twice successfully represented commercial insurance clients in appeals before the Sheriff Appeal Court.

He is a sitting solicitor member of the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal and a legal contributor to Lexis Nexis, having prepared its civil briefing on legal privilege in Scotland.

Irene is an Associate and Notary Public within BTO's Residential Conveyancing team. 

Based in BTO’s office in Helensburgh office, Irene deals with all aspects of residential conveyancing, including purchases, sales, transfers of title and re-mortgaging. She is experienced in Help to Buy Applications and Forces Help to Buy Applications in connection with property purchases, and some of the issues related to purchasing a property in a more rural area.

Irene also deals with welfare and financial guardianship applications relative to the Dumbarton jurisdictional area.

She has a good connection with her clients and aims to keep matters as stress free as possible for them when moving home, or when seeking to be appointed as Guardian.

Sarah is a Residential Conveyancing Paralegal based within BTO’s Residential department providing assistance to the solicitors in the team.

Sharon is a Criminal Law Paralegal based within BTO’s Insurance Department providing assistance to solicitors within the Health, Safety and Regulatory Defence team.  Sharon also provides assistance to those solicitors based within the Non PI Insurance Litigation Team.

Fraser is a specialist in risk and construction disputes with vast experience in working on high profile building and infrastructure projects across the UK for a mix of contractors, developers and construction professionals.

Highly regarded in his field, Fraser leads the commercial side of BTO’s contentious construction caseload.

He has over sixteen years of experience in dispute avoidance and dispute resolution that has been focused exclusively on the construction industry. While the majority of his caseload concerns pursuing and defending claims at adjudication, his practice also sees him regularly representing clients’ interests in the Court of Session, the Sheriff Court, Arbitration, Expert Determination and Mediation.

Types of construction claims dealt with by Fraser previously include: extensions of time; loss and expense; defective work on major transport/infrastructure projects; various types of building defects, upstream and downstream contractor insolvency under the various standard form contracts; professional negligence claims for and against construction professionals and contract termination issues.

Underscoring the breadth of his experience, Fraser also drafted, revised and negotiated building contracts, professional appointments, collateral warranties and ancillary documents.

He also has a Masters Degree (first class) in Construction Law and has, for many years in the period since, lectured on the course on a variety of topics. Fraser has also been recognised by the Law Society of Scotland as an Accredited Specialist in Construction Law (awaiting renewal).