Richard Williams

Practice Areas

Agriculture & Estates and Private Client

Career

Richard (Dicky) is a private client and agricultural and estates lawyer based in Chester with over 20 years’ experience acting for some of the largest landowners and wealthiest families in Cheshire, North Wales and nationwide.

After training in Liverpool, he has spent his career in Chester, most recently at Knights as a partner, building a practice dedicated to serving the needs of landed estates and HNW individuals, including

• structured lifetime tax planning and succession planning;

• agricultural law;

• farm tenancies;

• farming partnerships;

• complex first registrations;

• whole estate purchase and sale;

• forestry and sporting rights;

• renewables projects including wind farms and solar parks;

• public and private rights of way.

In his private client work, Dicky represents HNW individuals in complex and high value residential property transactions – often involving Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and Welsh Land Transaction Tax (LTT) advice – as well as providing wills, lasting powers of attorney and bespoke estate and tax planning.

Professional Memberships

On the National Legal and Property Rights Committee of the CLA