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The team at Hewitsons LLP is ‘not only competent but also easy to deal with’. It handled acquisitions and disposals of agricultural property worth over £50m in 2010, with renewable energy projects and mineral leases also a feature. Gareth Williams is ‘excellent’.

Roythornes LLP delivers ‘top-end technical knowledge in a commercial manner’ through a strong team headed by the ‘very capable’ Vember Mortlock, who specialises in advising estate owners on strategic matters. Tom Foottit has ‘acknowledged expertise’ in the sale and purchase of farms; Simeon Disley is a ‘pre-eminent conveyancer’ for high-value land; and ‘superb agriculture and estates lawyer’ Graham Smith has a ‘broad knowledge base and a really thoughtful approach’.

Michael Thomson of Arnold Thomson covers the full range of matters, from tenancies to tax for landowners and farmers.

Langleys acts for tenant farmers, major landowners and farming businesses on partnership matters; land transactions; disputes (including succession applications); administration of estates; wind farm developments; and mineral rights. The ‘excellent, professional, informed, prompt and reliable’ Andrew Fearn leads a ‘very able team’, which includes ‘extremely thorough’ associate Francoise Vandale, a ‘very good communicator’.

The region’s sole NFU panel member, Wilkin Chapman Epton Blades offers partner-level advice on matters including family holdings; purchases (such as Sir Richard Sutton’s £5.2m purchase of Vale Farm Thoresway); diversification, including wind farms and anaerobic digestion plants; and agricultural tenancy arbitration.

At Chattertons, Rodney Blezard continues to act for leading landowners in the county and beyond, and acts for the Lincoln Diocesan Trust in relation to property matters. He and Roland Freeman completed several agricultural transactions in 2010, including sales in excess of £5m, and also handled various agricultural partnership matters, notably settling a multimillion-pound partnership dispute.

Neil Etherington leads on property matters for large agricultural estates at Rothera Dowson.

Young & Pearce’s experience includes agricultural property sales.

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