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Mills & Reeve LLP Offices

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

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01223 222265 [email protected]

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

East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates

(Leading partners)

Amanda Tagg –Mills & Reeve LLP

The agribusiness practice at Mills & Reeve LLP ‘has a very clear brand that stands for high standards, clarity, imagination and delivery‘. The lead partners are ‘collaborative, responsive, solution-driven‘ head of agribusiness Michael Aubrey and agricultural property specialist Amanda Tagg, both based in Cambridge, and Catherine Scott in Norwich, who has a national practice advising food, agribusiness, and private wealth clients. Senior associate Dawn Chapman, who handles farm sales and tenancies, typifies the firm’s strong bench of up-and-coming talent. Aubrey recently advised Newlands Partnership on an option to lease land for batteries to store energy from wind and solar farms.

London > Private client > Agriculture and estates

Under the collective leadership of Michael Aubrey, Catherine Scott, and Amanda Tagg, the nimble team at Mills & Reeve LLP acts for many major farming clients, as well as several of the landowning Cambridge and Oxford colleges. Other key clients include several pension funds, numerous prestigious landed estates, and many substantial national farming businesses. This nationwide practice is well-equipped to handle a variety of high-value and complex deals, as well as covering tax and trusts issues, litigation, and food law. Aubrey is well-regarded for his work on major infrastructure and development projects, in addition to large scale renewable energy projects. Paddy Lynam joined the team in September 2024. Tim Ryan is now a consultant.

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