About Us

McIldowies is one of Northern Ireland’s leading law firms, having been established in 1886 as George McIldowie & Sons. We combine over 100 years of knowledge with an innovative and client focused approach.

Nigel Brown heads up the practice and is assisted by solicitors Gerry Ward, Kara Anderson and Julie Maxwell. We are committed to client service and have built up a strong reputation for providing high quality and practical legal advice within a commercial framework.

Our main practice areas are commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, banking disputes, procurement challenges, corporate law, property law and private client services. We are well known for our work in Northern Ireland in construction law. We are market leaders for our result driven advice and are highly rated in Chambers and Partners UK, having received accreditation across a number of major practice areas.

We provide a full legal service to both commercial and private clients. In particular, we have experience in advising both national and local companies, builders, developers, not for profit organisations and other government funded organisations.