Edward Nutting
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Band 1
About
Provided by Edward Nutting
Practice Areas
Agriculture and rural affairs – a partner in the firm’s commercial and agricultural property department. Edward specialises in the sale and purchase of farms and estates including sales by auction, high value mortgages, sale and purchase of commercial property and businesses, various types of leases, Land law issues relating to common land, sporting rights, manorial rights, complex mesne of holding and organizing land, easements, profit-à-prendre, water abstraction, drainage and fishing, option and overage agreements, tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995. He also assists the private client department on the succession issues within businesses.
Career
Edward began his career with a specialist agricultural practice in North Wales, Cyfraith JRL Law and became a director in 2013. Cyfraith JRL Law became part of Allington Hughes Law where Edward remained as a director until 2015 when he joined Hibberts Solicitors in Cheshire as a partner to head their agricultural department. In 2018 Edward joined Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors a partner in the commercial and agricultural property department. Edward is one of the ALA’s regional co-ordinators for Wales, he is a past Farming Connect Rural Leadership Scholar and also sits on the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show Advisory Committee.
Chambers Review
UK
Edward Nutting's expertise includes farm and estate transactions, agricultural tenancies, succession planning, and rural land development agreements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ed Nutting is one of the leaders in energy work in Wales. He helps landowning and farming clients with optional leases when they are approached with wind energy opportunities."
"Ed Nutting is one of the leaders in energy work in Wales. He helps landowning and farming clients with optional leases when they are approached with wind energy opportunities."