Rupert Burchett > Payne Hicks Beach LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Payne Hicks Beach LLP
10 NEW SQUARE
LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3QG
England

Work Department

Property - Landed Estates and Agriculture

Position

Rupert is an senior associate in the Landed Estates and Agriculture team.

Rupert’s specialism is in property-related rural matters, from sales and purchases of landed estates and farms to re-financings, partitions, easements, sporting leases, agricultural tenancies and licences and commercial tenancies of diversified agri-businesses.

Career

Rupert trained at Clifford Chance LLP and qualified in 2011. He then practised as an agricultural property lawyer in Oxford and Cheltenham before joining the Army in 2015, serving as an officer in the Army Legal Services. He retired as a Major last year, but continues to serve in the Reserves, and picked up where he left off as an agricultural property lawyer in Cheltenham before joining Payne Hicks Beach LLP in 2022.

Languages

French

Memberships

Rupert is a member of the Agricultural Law Association and the Country Land and Business Association.

Education

Rupert studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated in 2005.

Personal

Rupert has a keen interest in country sports and rural affairs. He is also a keen clarinettist, and is a trustee of the Malcolm Arnold Festival.