Ryan McKay

Ryan is a Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer and leads Blackadders’ Dispute Resolution team. He has been described in a recent edition of the Legal 500 as an “excellent litigator” and as having an “attention to detail on niche legal matters [which] sets him out from his peers”. Ryan and his team are involved in all matters of a contentious nature, with Ryan having a particular focus on property litigation, restructuring & insolvency, commercial disputes, contentious private client matters and debt recovery.

While Ryan appears regularly in the Sheriff Court, he has also acted as the instructing solicitor in a number of high value disputes in the Court of Session. Ryan has significant experience of litigating under the commercial procedure available at both the Court of Session and a growing number of Sheriff Courts. Out with the Sheriff Court and the Court of Session, Ryan regularly litigates property related cases in both the Scottish Land Court and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.

In addition to traditional litigation, Ryan also has experience of alternative forms of dispute resolution, including Arbitration, Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation.

Ryan has a keen interest in the law of insolvency and is regularly instructed to act on behalf of liquidators, administrators, trustees and those subjects to insolvency proceedings. As regard his property litigation practice, Ryan specialises in lease enforcement matters, dilapidation claims and agricultural disputes.

Ryan is dual-qualified in Scotland, England & Wales (although he only holds a practising certificate in Scotland).