Rupert Burchett

Rupert is the head of the Property team and the Landed Estates and Agriculture team, advising on a wide range of property-related rural matters.

Rupert acts for landowning clients and buyers in relation to all aspects of rural property, including sales and purchases of farms and estates, country houses and sporting establishments (including hunt kennels, shooting estates and fisheries), first registrations, option agreements (particularly for renewables projects), easements and rights of way, sporting rights, agricultural tenancies and licences and commercial tenancies of diversified agri-businesses (including sporting leases). He is regularly involved with some of the more esoteric aspects of this type of work, including dealing with land subject to the Settled Land Act 1925 and advising on notices to quit pursuant to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.

Rupert read Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Oxford before completing his academic legal training. Having trained and qualifyied at Clifford Chance LLP, Rupert has practised as an agricultural property lawyer in Oxford and Cheltenham. He joined the Army in 2015 and served as an officer in the Army Legal Services for six years before returning to private practice. He continues to serve in the Army Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Legal Services and is also a trustee of the Royal Artillery Charities.

Qualified 2011, joined Payne Hicks Beach 2022.

Rupert is Chairman of the London Branch of the Agricultural Law Association and sits on the committee of the Wiltshire Branch of the Country Land and Business Association.