Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Jack Royall is an experienced practitioner who advises on agricultural transactions, succession planning and partnership agreements for agribusinesses, farmers and landowners.

"Jack inspires confidence with his calm, experienced, capable and professional manner. His excellent agricultural knowledge, empathy and understanding made our situation manageable."

"Jack is highly experienced and delivers results for clients in an effective manner. He is certainly one of my first points of call if expertise is needed on complex issues."

"Jack is superb in addressing complex matters."

Annabelle Rout handles farm land sales and acquisitions, tenancy matters, bank refinancing and succession planning for landowners and farmers.

"Annabelle is a great detail lawyer."

Chris Coupland handles agricultural property matters, including financing work, agribusiness management and succession planning.

"Chris is experienced and delivers results for clients in an effective manner. He is certainly one of my first points of call if expertise is needed."

"Chris is very easy to work with and extremely knowledgeable within the field."

"Chris is an excellent agricultural solicitor and professional adviser."

James Dinwiddy handles agricultural property sales and acquisitions, bank financing work and succession planning matters.

"James is good at what he does ‒ he's clever and charming and he doesn't get in the way of getting a job done properly."

"James is extremely diligent and a safe pair of hands."

Rachel Mc Killop-Wilkin is an agricultural specialist who handles agricultural property transactions, together with family business succession planning and landlord and tenant issues.

"Rachel gives good, practical advice."

"Rachel is very nice to deal with and is sensible."

Sophia Key deals with high-value agricultural property transactions ‒ together with landlord and tenant matters ‒ for farmers and landowners.

"Sophia is innovative, forward-thinking, and an expert in her field."

Tom Verrill deals with the full range of agricultural property matters, such as succession planning and partnership structures for landowners.

"Tom is a really clever guy and is sensible. He understands the ins and outs of everything and is great at drafting. Tom has a good depth of knowledge and is a sharp operator."

"Tom is very good with clients and speaks the same language. He is diligent, does the job well in a timely manner and also understands the agriculture business in which he operates."

Chelmsford-based Adam Burden advises on the sale and acquisition of rural property portfolios and has extensive experience in agricultural tenancies, as well as option agreements. He often acts for rural landowners, banks and agribusinesses.

"Adam is responsive and efficient."

"Adam was sensitive to the issues. We could not have asked for a better level of service."

"Adam always replies on time and worked hard to get this deal done. He was also very approachable."

"Adam is very good in every category and is our go-to solicitor in the South East for rural matters."

"Adam is seriously knowledgeable. His technical knowledge is really good."

Sarah Ellero is based in Norwich and has broad experience of dealing with rural property matters such as sales, purchases and secured lending. She has further expertise in option agreements and other aspects of land transactions.

"Sarah is experienced and delivers results for her clients in an effective manner. She is certainly one of my first points of call on complex or difficult issues."

"Sarah is a good solid lawyer with a reassuring manner and the knowledge and experience to back it up. She is a pleasure to work with."

"Sarah is an excellent individual who provides a consistent high level of service."

"Sarah is diligent and responsive."