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Mills & Reeve LLP
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100 HILLS ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1PH
England
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Amanda Tagg

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01223 222265 amanda.tagg@mills-reeve.com

Work Department

Agriculture and estates.

Position

Amanda specialises in all aspects of agricultural property law, with an emphasis on work for institutional and corporate clients that hold agricultural land as an investment, and on rural property development. She has very wide experience of most aspects of agricultural and property law, including the acquisition, management and disposal of freehold and leasehold agricultural estates; agricultural tenancies; single-farm payment; agri-environmental schemes; and diversification of agricultural land (for example, through commercial activities such as business and research parks, residential development schemes and energy projects). Her recent work includes advising: a private investment company on the acquisition of a 1,200 acre estate in Norfolk for £11m and in relation to the acceptance of a surrender by one of its agricultural tenants of a tenancy of a substantial estate in Essex and advising on the ongoing management of both estates; a charity on the grant of a strategic land option over 300 acres of farmland to a national housebuilder (with a minimum land value of £30m), the restructuring of occupational leasehold interests and management arrangements at its research park and the potential redevelopment of parts of the park; a private client in relation to the grant of an option to a supermarket chain to construct an eco-friendly supermarket and associated food academy on allotment and agricultural land in Norfolk; and a leading international university in relation to the restructuring of agricultural tenancies on its agricultural estate in Shropshire.

Career

Trained Slaughter and May, London; qualified 1998. Trainee solicitor, Slaughter and May 1996-98; solicitor 1998-2005; senior solicitor, Mills & Reeve 2005-06; associate 2006-10; partner 2010 to date.

Education

Manshead Upper School, Caddington, Luton; Queens College Cambridge (1992-95 BA Hons law 2:1); College of Law, Guildford (1995-96 LPC, distinction).

Leisure

Swimming, playing the piano.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Agriculture and estates

Michael Aubrey heads up the department at Mills & Reeve LLP, and has considerable expertise in advising on major infrastructure and development projects as well as large-scale renewable energy schemes. The practice has a national reach and skilfully deals with the complete range of matters relating to rural land and the agribusiness sector. In addition to its traditional farming clients, it acts for several of the landowning Cambridge and Oxford colleges, several pension funds, numerous prestigious landed estates and many substantial national farming businesses. Amanda Tagg is recommended for her transactional advice to institutional landowners on all aspects of their agricultural property portfolios, and Tim Ryan also plays a pivotal role in the practice.

East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates

(Leading individuals)

Amanda Tagg –Mills & Reeve LLP

Mills & Reeve LLP is known for its ‘strength in depth, and breadth of knowledge and experience‘ in agricultural matters. Michael Aubrey who works in Cambridge and London, is head of the firm-wide food and agribusiness sector group, and he recently advised The Oxford Fund on the £60m acquisition of the Exning Estate in Newmarket. Catherine Scott, who joined from Howes Percival LLP in January 2023, now leads the Norwich agribusiness team and brings notable experience in advising landed estates. Amanda Tagg in Cambridge is highly recommended for her knowledge of agriculture property matters. Senior associate Louisa Butcher and principal associate Nicola Dernie in Norwich recently assisted with the sale of part of an estate comprising approximately 1,244 acres of farmland, woodland, and residential and agricultural buildings.

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