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Thomas Eggar LLP

BELMONT HOUSE, STATION WAY, CRAWLEY, RH10 1JA, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 01293 742700
Fax:
Fax 01293 742999
DX:
85715 CRAWLEY
Web:
www.thomaseggar.com
Email:

Iain Macleod

Tel:
Work +44 1293 742880
Email:
Thomas Eggar LLP

Work Department

Commercial property.

Position

Head of Thomas Eggar property practice group (incorporating commercial and residential property); partner in the property practice group’s rural business and estates team and real estate team. Experienced in acquisition, development, disposal and letting of commercial and agricultural property, acting for investors, property companies, landlords, tenants, farmers and landowners. Notary public.

Career

Trained Freshfields; qualified 1980; equity partner and head of commercial property department and chair of firm’s management committee; Downs 1982-2001; partner Thomas Eggar LLP 2001; trainee principal 2002-04; deputy managing partner 2004-06; head of property division 2006-07; head of property practice group 2007 to date. Director of The Lifetrain Trust; Trustee of The Denbies Trust, St Kilda Trust and the William Cole Church Music Trust.

Languages

French, German.

Member

Law Society; Notaries’ Society; Country Land and Business Association; Agricultural Law Association.

Education

Portsmouth Grammar School; Oxford University (1977 MA Jurisprudence); College of Law, Guildford (1978).

Leisure

Choral singing, chair of The William Cole Church Music Trust, past chairman of Guildford Chamber Choir. Former Church Warden, St Martin’s Church, Dorking.

Practice Areas

Agriculture and estates; Property - commercial property

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