Jonathan Mathers > Greene & Greene > Bury St Edmunds, England > Lawyer Profile

Greene & Greene
80 GUILDHALL STREET
BURY ST EDMUNDS
IP33 1QB
England

Work Department

Private client; agriculture and estates; property residential.

Position

Director partner Jonathan Mathers Ltd.

Career

Trained Prettys, Ipswich; qualified 1996; Berrymans Lace Mawer, London 1996-98; solicitor Prettys, Ipswich 1998-2000; own practice, Sudbury 2000-05; Gotelee & Goldsmith, Ipswich 2005-08; made partner Greene & Greene 2008 to date.

Jonathan specialises in private client work. Main areas of which are agricultural property, rural and high-value residential property transactions, Will and Lasting Powers of Attorney.  He heads the firm’s team of residential property lawyers.  Jonathan is an accomplished solicitor with a wide experience of property and private client work.

Memberships

Agricultural Law Association; Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship.

Education

St John’s School, Leatherhead; Nottingham Trent University (1991 BA Hons; 1993 PG Dip Law; 1994 LPC).

Leisure

Country pursuits and sailing.

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates

(Leading individuals)

Jonathan MathersGreene & Greene

The agricultural and rural affairs practice at Greene & Greene in Bury St Edmunds has a diverse client base that ranges from long-established estate owners to new investors. It frequently handles farm sales, Settled Land Act matters, tenancies and succession planning. Lead partner Jonathan Mathers is a key adviser to farming partnerships and companies, trusts, investors and charities. Property specialist Hugo Greer-Walker advised Viscountess Marcia Blakenham and The Honourable Caspar Hare on the complex sale of part of their estate to facilitate a large warehouse development on neighbouring land which is being built on the A14 corridor. The sale had to balance the interests of the Scottish Power wind turbine scheme and the adjoining glasshouse agricultural business.

East Anglia > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia

Clients praise Greene & Greene in Bury St Edmunds for ‘exemplary collaboration enabling the client to feel empowered and the situation fully under control‘. Chartered tax adviser Wayne Perrin and property and estate specialist Jonathan Mathers lead the practice, which has in-depth expertise in all areas of private client work, often for high-net-worth individuals. The ‘professional, discreet, and responsiveZoe Hodge is a full STEP member and a key adviser on wills, probate and LPAs. Tax directors Nigel Scase and Martine Swaep frequently advise on Administration of estates including accounts and inheritance tax returns, trust administration, will drafting and Court of Protection matters.