Tees Law

Real Estate

Partner

I joined Tees in October 2024 as a Partner in the Commercial Property department, in the Agriculture, Rural and Estates team. I am based in the North Herts office.

I qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and started my career working at a large, national law firm in London, gaining experience in all areas of Commercial Property. Before joining Tees I was a Partner in the Commercial Property team and Head of Rural at another Hertfordshire law firm.

I deal with all aspects of Commercial Property law but with a particular focus on agricultural, rural and Estates matters. I deal with matters such as:

• Acting for sellers and buyers of farmland / commercial properties, including conditional contracts
• Negotiating overage clauses
• Acting for Estates in relation to ongoing management issues, including the grant of leases
• The registration of unregistered land at the Land Registry
• Advising in relation to option and pre-emption agreements
• Drafting surrenders of Agricultural Holding Act tenancies and the grant of Farm Business Tenancies

My clients include private Estates, landowners, farmers, businesses, investors, owner-occupiers and high net-worth individuals.

Recent work highlights include:

• Acting for a landowning client on the grant of an option agreement to a developer
• Acting on the sale of a family farm, including negotiating the grant of rights over separately-owned land to the buyer as a condition of the sale
• Acting on the purchase of farmland, including areas of unregistered land
• Acting on the purchase of a farm subject to a grazing licence, a fishing licence and various commercial tenancies
• Acting on behalf of a wildlife charity on their purchase of a long lease of environmentally-important woodland