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Agriculture & Rural Affairs

About

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Our award-winning team of agricultural specialists is one of the best qualified and largest agricultural teams in the UK market, providing a comprehensive range of legal services to farmers, landowners and agri-business specialists.

In a sector which comprises some of the most eccentric provisions of English law, we appreciate that commerciality is your focus. Once a deal is agreed, the legal input is often deemed an inconvenience or a hold up. We pride ourselves on our quick response and proactivity, highlighting problem areas at the start so they may be dealt with early and pragmatically. We respond practically to work to your timescales and ensure that the focus remains on the key issues at hand.

The team’s breadth of experience enables us to understand your business better and the challenges and opportunities you face day to day.

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Agriculture & Rural Affairs - East Anglia

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What the Team is Known For

Birketts has a highly acclaimed specialist agricultural team that serves clients in East Anglia and further afield on agricultural and rural property law, finance and succession issues, public access matters, strategic land development and renewable energy schemes. The practice acts for private individuals, agribusinesses, utility companies, charities, banks and public sector bodies on specialist agricultural and rural matters.

Strengths

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Birketts dealt with the issues efficiently and effectively ensuring satisfactory resolution.

Agriculture & Rural Affairs respondent
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Birketts has an excellent team of skilled professionals across a wide breadth of practice areas. In my opinion, Birketts have the strongest agricultural law team in East Anglia and beyond.

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Birketts have a large team of people with a wide range of skills and knowledge.

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I think that Birketts is the top firm in East Anglia for agricultural work.

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Notable Practitioners

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

Jack is superb in addressing complex matters.

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

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Annabelle Rout
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Annabelle Rout
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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.

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

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

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 an excellent agricultural solicitor and professional adviser.

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James Dinwiddy
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James Dinwiddy
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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.

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Rachel Mc Killop-Wilkin
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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.

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Sophia Key
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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.

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Tom Verrill
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Tom Verrill
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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.

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

Adam is responsive and efficient.

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

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

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

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

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 diligent and responsive.

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Ranked Lawyers at
Birketts LLP

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Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Jack Royall
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Jack Royall
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Annabelle Rout
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Annabelle Rout
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Chris Coupland
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Chris Coupland
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James Dinwiddy
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James Dinwiddy
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Rachel Mc Killop-Wilkin
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Sophia Key
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Band 3
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Tom Verrill
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Tom Verrill
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Adam Burden
Adam Burden
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Sarah Ellero
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