The Legal 500

Work Department

Real estate/landed estates.

Position

Partner in the real estate department, specialising in the sale and purchase of rural property, agricultural land and estates. Also joint head of the landed estates group, a team of 30 lawyers who specialise in advising landowning families on succession planning, management and business issues. Bertie acts as a trustee for a number of estates. Recent transactions include the purchase of a 3,500 acre estate and farming business in Northumberland with a portfolio of residential property, the lease of a 12 turbine windfarm site and seeing 38 sites for the development of solar towns.

Career

Trained Withers LLP; qualified 2003; partner 2008.

Member

Agricultural Law Association; trustee of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Education

Eton College; Newcastle University (1999, countryside management (1st class hons); University of Northumbria at Newcastle (2000, PGDL commendation; 2001, LPC distinction).

Leisure

Country sports.

Practice Areas

Agriculture and estates; Private client