Hugh Murphy

Practice Areas

Hugh specialises in acting for clients on a wide range of private-client-related property matters. He acts for private clients, landed estates and institutional clients in relation to all aspects of property law and has particular expertise in guiding clients through the process of both buying and selling country houses, London property, sporting estates, farms, and agricultural land. Hugh also has a wealth of experience in the equine and bloodstock sector, having acted frequently in the sale and purchase of equine property.

Career

Hugh qualified as a solicitor in 2006. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2017, he worked at the following firms:

Bond Dickinson

Charles Russell

Experience

Acted on the sale of a sporting estate with two ownership structures, shooting and fishing rights, tenancies, environmental schemes and entitlements.

Acted on the sale of a grouse moor with associated employment and corporate advice.

Acted on the purchase of a large Oxfordshire estate with a complex title, private water supplies and complex planning issues.

Acted for the purchaser of a racehorse training yard and on transactions involving stud farms.

Acted in the high value sale of an eco-friendly prime central London to a high profile individual.

Acted on the high-value purchase of a residential property in Godalming, Surrey in a very tight timescale.

Advised on the high-value sale of a significant central London property on Hyde Park Gate.

Acted on a substantial purchase of a residential property in Oxford for a long-standing, well-known media client.

Acted on the purchase of a property (main house and farm) for £4 million.

Acted on the sale of an estate which included several hundred acres of farmland let on FBTs and grazing licences, for £5 million.

Acted on the purchase of a farm for £2 million.

Acted on the purchase of an estate which include hundreds of acres of agricultural land, for £16 million.

Acted on the purchase of a farm which included hundreds of acres of agricultural land for £2 million.