Our services
We offer a comprehensive range of legal services tailored specifically for the agricultural sector.
Optimising your land and property
Navigating the complexities of land use, agricultural tenancies and development opportunities can be challenging. Our tailored solutions are designed to help you overcome these obstacles and unlock your farm’s full potential.
- Land sales and purchases: Navigating land transactions is crucial for farm expansion or restructuring. We assist with buying or selling land, ensuring a smooth and strategic transaction.
- Leases and tenancies: Managing leases effectively can make or break a farming business. We offer guidance on Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies and Farm Business Tenancies.
- Planning and development: Maximising your land’s potential often involves development projects, such as converting farm buildings or diversifying into agri-tourism.
- Renewable energy projects: Maximising your land’s potential through renewable energy projects involves navigating complex legal issues. We provide expert advice on these opportunities.
- Financial mis-selling: If you’ve been mis-sold an energy or investment product related to renewable energy projects, our financial claims team can help recover your losses.
Supporting your farming business
Your farm is a business as well as a home. With extensive experience in business law, our team offers pragmatic solutions to ensure your operations run smoothly.
- Contracts and agreements: Safeguarding your business interests in transactions is essential. We draft and review contracts, from crop supply agreements to machinery leases.
- Dispute resolution: Disputes can arise from various sources—suppliers, customers, or neighbours. We resolve these efficiently, minimising disruptions.
- Employment law: Managing your workforce effectively requires up-to-date knowledge of employment laws. We provide advice on contracts and dispute management.
We can also help you stay compliant and avoid any costly disruptions.
- Environmental law: Guidance on water usage, pollution, and conservation regulations.
- Regulatory advice: We offer advice and representation in all regulatory matters affecting the agricultural sector including: health & safety, fire safety, environmental protection and permitting, waste management, pollution allegations, animal welfare, and livestock movement.
Securing your farm’s future
We understand that farming is more than a business—it’s a way of life, passed down through generations. Our experience working with farming families has shown how vital it is to have clear, legally recognised plans in place to secure a smooth transition when circumstances change.
- Wills and trusts: Ensuring that your farm passes smoothly to the next generation is essential for maintaining its long-term viability. We provide expert advice on creating robust wills and trusts.
- Succession planning: We work with you to create a succession plan that reflects your wishes and maintains the farm’s viability.
- Tax planning: Effective tax planning is critical in minimising liabilities and maximizing the assets that can be passed on.
- Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA): LPAs ensure that your farm operations continue smoothly if you become incapacitated, by appointing trusted individuals to manage your affairs.
- Familial disputes: Our private wealth disputes lawyers have a wealth of experience in dealing with claims of being promised the family farm, disputes over partnership issues, as well as challenges to the validity of a will or arguments over the administration of an estate or trust.
Protecting your family and lifestyle
Farming families face unique legal challenges, from inheritance disputes to care costs. We understand these complexities and provide sensitive, practical advice to protect what matters most—your family, your farm, and your lifestyle.
- Divorce, financial separation and co-habitation disputes: Divorce proceedings and co-habitation disputes can have serious implications for farm ownership. We offer sensitive, practical advice to protect your assets.
- Child law: Our experts help secure outcomes that reflect the unique needs of farming families, such as child arrangements that don’t disrupt farm succession plans.
- Pre-nuptial, post-nuptial agreements and co-habitation agreements: Protect your farm and business interests with tailored agreements that safeguard your assets.
- Court of Protection: Our multidisciplinary experts provide compassionate support and practical guidance to ensure the best outcomes for those unable to manage their own affairs.
- Nursing care fee recovery: Our nursing care department is one of the leading national experts in the recovery of wrongly paid care home fees. Therefore, if you or a relative are paying care home fees, you could be due a refund.
Resolving complex farming challenges
Farming comes with its fair share of disputes, whether over land, contracts, or environmental concerns. Our dispute resolution and environmental law teams are highly skilled in resolving even the most complex issues.
- Property and land disputes: Property disputes, such as boundary disagreements, can be particularly disruptive in farming. We provide robust representation to protect your land and property interests.
- Agricultural disputes: We’re skilled in resolving farming-related disputes such as partnership disputes, whether through negotiation, mediation, or litigation.
- Land and environmental compensation: If your farm is affected by environmental nuisances or public works, we help secure compensation to protect your interests.
- Pollution and nuisance claims: We address pollution issues and environmental nuisances impacting your farm, ensuring remediation and compensation.
Independent financial advice
Effective financial management is essential for the growth and resilience of farming businesses, addressing unique challenges while safeguarding assets, securing income, and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.
Our Independent financial advisers (IFAs) bring more than 20 years of expertise, offering truly independent advice tailored to your unique needs and aspirations.
How we can help
- Investment and wealth management: Build and protect your wealth with tax-efficient strategies.
- Retirement planning: Secure your future with tailored pension solutions.
- Tax and trusts advice: Maximise your estate while minimising tax liabilities.
- Business protection: Safeguard your operations with robust financial safeguards.
- Income and life protection: Protect your family’s lifestyle and future.
