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Agriculture & Rural Affairs - South West

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What the Team is Known For

Burges Salmon has a large Bristol team that has a long history of acting for landed estates. It handles property, tax and succession, company law and disputes matters for a broad range of clients. The team is noted for its work with institutional landowners and farming and food production businesses. It also regularly acts for high-profile financial institutions on secured lending transactions.

Work Highlights

  • Burges Salmon acted for Oxygen Conservation Group on its acquisition of eleven sites around the UK.

Strengths

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The advice was very practical and complicated issues were logically thought out. All in all the staff we dealt with were exceptionally capable and personable.

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Burges Salmon has an excellent depth of expertise, which allows partners to efficiently manage an instruction. The team provides an excellent level of service in a timely fashion.

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We’ve been very happy with its ability to handle complex transactions.

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Notable Practitioners

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Kevin Kennedy
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Kevin Kennedy
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Kevin Kennedy handles agricultural tenancy disputes as well as contested probates and other contentious rural land matters.

Kevin has a very keen understanding of what is important to the individual client and is massively responsive.

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Emma Folkes
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Emma Folkes
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Emma Folkes focuses her practice on agricultural property transactions. She acts for a range of individual and institutional clients, particularly on large complex properties for family partnerships with farming and real estate issues.

She's very hard-working and really pays attention to detail.

She's very good and very sensible.

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Tom Hewitt
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Tom Hewitt
Head of Agriculture & Rural Affairs
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Tom Hewitt focuses on trusts, tax and estate planning advice for landed estates clients and other rural landowners. He has strong experience in rural property succession planning.

He's always very quick, responsive and easy to get hold of.

Tom has a wealth of experience, knowledge and professionalism to handle complex and delicate matters while presenting balanced debate for sound decisions to be made.

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Ross Simpson
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Ross Simpson is a partner in the team working on significant real estate matters. He advises a range of clients including large estates, consultancies and environmental groups on notable acquisitions.

He is just very efficient and a good communicator.

Ross is an excellent professional.

Ross Simpson is an absolute star.

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Ranked Lawyers at
Burges Salmon LLP

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Kevin Kennedy
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Kevin Kennedy
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Emma Folkes
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Emma Folkes
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Tom Hewitt
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Tom Hewitt
Head of Agriculture & Rural Affairs
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Ross Simpson
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Up and Coming
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