James Frankland > HCR Hewitsons > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
HCR Hewitsons Offices
50-60 Station Road
CB1 2JH
England
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James Frankland
Work Department
Agricultural and Rural Business
Position
Legal Director
Career
James acts for private landowners on the sale and purchase of agricultural land and farm mortgages. He deals with a range of properties from large estates, farms and country houses to paddocks, cottages and barn conversions. He also acts for banks on obtaining security over these kinds of properties and for landowning charities.
He has experience of voluntary registrations at the Land Registry of large estates and has dealt with the conveyancing aspects of inter-family land rearrangements (often including partnerships and trusts).
James also assists clients with the acquisition and disposal of development sites including overage or development claw back and the grant of rights for utilities.
Through his on going estate advisory work James has experience of Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancies and preparing Farm Business Tenancies and Assured Shorthold Tenancies. He also advises on land management agreements.
Memberships
James is a member of the Agricultural Law Association.
Education
James has advised on rural property since 2004 and has an interest in rural heritage, nature and the countryside. Professionally his interests include Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancies and Stamp Duty Land Tax.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Private client > Agriculture and estates
HCR Hewitsons is frequently instructed by farmers and rural landowners on a range of large and complex transactions involving the buying and selling of farms or significant portions of land. Additionally, the firm handles significant agricultural litigation matters. Gareth Williams handles complex transactions for farmers and agricultural businesses. Denise Wilkinson handles complex property and family issues in the rural sector for both small farmers and major institutions. Newly-promoted partner Stephanie Dennis specialises in agricultural and and rural estate matters, while James Frankland acts on a range of property transactions and management issues.
East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates
(Next Generation Partners)HCR Hewitsons in Cambridge exhibits ‘fantastic experience and knowledge of the local area’, and the practitioners in the team ‘give clients the confidence that they are being listened to and understood, and that they are in the best possible hands’. Head of agriculture and rural affairs Denise Wilkinson
and private client partner Elizabeth Davies are the most prominent practitioners in the large practice. The ‘outstanding’ James Frankland and ‘very bright, extremely personable’ legal director Emily Pumfrey are recommended for property-related matters. Simon Biggin, who frequently works with the NFU, advised Broadland Agricultural Water Abstractors Group on the Environment Agency’s Restoring Sustainable Abstraction programme.
Lawyer Rankings
- Agriculture and estates East Anglia > Private client
- Next Generation Partners East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Employment > Health and safety
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms