With a client roster comprised of national trusts, estates and farms, Browne Jacobson LLP’s strengths include transactional work and succession matters. Practice co-head Robert Wofinden acts for high-net-worth private clients and trustees, leading on promotion agreement matters and strategic land transactions. Lucy Worwood co-leads the practice with experience in personal tax, agricultural and property mandates. Imogen Holmes specialises in high-value family, farm, and property succession matters, often dealing with tax ownership issues and farming partnership agreements. Acting for trustees, investors and agricultural lenders, Sophie Meehan-Green has recently been engaged in transactional matters.

Based in Northampton, the ‘exceptionally personable and approachable’ team at HCR Hewitsons is equipped to handle land acquisitions, restructurings and inheritance issues. Denise Wilkinson leads the practice from Cambridge, and in Northampton, Gareth Williams is ‘unrivalled in the field of option agreements, promotion agreements, and solar agreements’. Acting for landowners, Williams is a key contact for matters involving the sale of land for residential developments. With clients spanning landowners, families and farmers, Stephanie Dennis is highly experienced in negotiating option and lease agreements. Helen Deady is knowledgeable of contractual matters such as direct agreements, conditional contracts and overage agreements.

Based in Ashbourne, the ‘professional, friendly and approachable’ team at Nigel Davis Solicitors is noted for its capabilities in refinancings, tax issues, property agreements and dispute resolution, with a focus on advising families and individuals in farming partnerships. Heading up the private client team, Matthew Elias specialises in handling tax issues for agriculture and estates clients, while also working on land acquisition matters for commercial property clients. Leading the dispute resolution team, Liz Power is a key contact for disputed probate claims. The ‘commercially minded’ Vito Berzanskis leads the property team, dealing with high-value inheritance tax issues and promotion and exclusivity agreements for residential developments. Jacqui Mann leads on partnership, financial and residential property disputes, areas in which Isobel Price is also active.

Praised by clients for its ‘exceptional’ knowledge of agricultural law, Shakespeare Martineau LLP is adept at handling renewable energy matters, succession planning issues, tax advice, and farm partnerships. Heading up the team from Lincoln, Amy Cowdell is skilled at negotiating option, overage and pre-emption agreements. Emma Carr specialises in preparing wills and partnership agreements, while Georgina Euden is knowledgeable of acquisition and disposal issues. Charlotte Boyes frequently assists with the option agreement aspects of biodiversity and solar matters

Based in Lincoln, Wilkin Chapman Rollits primarily handles a range of contentious probate, and real estate matters, while also specialising in agricultural property work. Practice head Catherine Harris‘ broad expertise covers land acquisitions, inheritance tax advice and farming subsidies. Roly Freeman primarily acts for landowners and tenants on renewable energy matters, while Sophie Barwood handles transactional work and contentious probate matters. Focusing on real estate matters, Caitlin MacNamara frequently assists with renewable energy issues, as well as acquisitions and disposals.

Land transactions, wills and successions, partnership and option agreements are cornerstones of the Stamford-based practice at Chattertons. Jonathan Blythe leads the group, with expertise in property transactions and family partnership agreements. Part of the commercial property team, Katherine Bunting and Jo Ladds specialise in option agreement matters, while on the corporate side, Anna Horrell is skilled at drafting partnership agreements. On the private client team, Claire Clarke advises on family partnerships, trusts and the preparation of wills. Michelle Cox acts for clients in tribunals involving land registry issues and succession claims, and Jeevie Sandhu frequently assists with commercial property matters, with a focus on agricultural landlord and tenant work.

Based in Derby, the team at Flint Bishop is equipped to handle disputes, private client work, inheritance issues and probate matters for families and farming partnerships. Practice head Paul Sabin advises on pre-emption agreements and stewardship agreements, often handling agricultural transactional work. Claire Rudkin heads up the wills, probate, tax and trusts department and counts high-value estates and trusts on her client roster. Sundeep Sandhu is active in matters involving partnership disputes, proprietary estoppel and probates, and Marc King is active in succession and estate planning work, and inheritance tax issues.

Roythornes Solicitors predominantly act for estates, with the team’s expertise covering supplier contracts, staff transfers and land transactions. Simeon Disley specialises in the acquisition, management and disposal of agricultural land, while Edd Johnson leads the natural resources team. Alice Lees and Matthew Hesketh have recently led a complex, high-value land acquisition matter, and Emma Cook is skilled at negotiating contractual matters such as supplier contracts, environmental permits and option agreements. Claire Hindmarsh and Julie Robinson have recently acted for landowners on a biodiversity transaction.

With a specialist focus on ecclesiastical instructions, Howes Percival LLP is primarily engaged in landed estate and agricultural property matters. Leading the practice from Norwich, Katharine Danks‘ caseload consists of negotiating promotion and option agreements for landowners and residential development clients. Anna Spriggs is active in a broad range of areas, including land purchases and sales, ecclesiastical matters, overages and sub-sales.

With a focus on land transactions, Josiah Hincks Solicitors is equipped to advise on promotion agreements, succession planning issues and agricultural contract matters. Andrew Eagle is experienced in handling agricultural tenancy disputes, overage matters and partnership agreements, while Yilmaz Ozgen frequently assists on land purchases and sales, option agreements and leases.

Operating out of Kettering and Leicester, the team at Wilson Browne Solicitors fields ‘agricultural specialists’, with expertise in property, agriculture and estates matters. Leading the practice,Ika Castka heads up the commercial property team, with a recent caseload covering succession planning, agricultural relief and partnership agreement issues.Kirsten Rimmer specialises in commercial property law and is skilled at negotiating partnership and quarrying agreements, and Neelam Maher advises on farming partnership agreements and inheritance tax negotiations.