I am a senior associate in Farrer & Co's property department. I specialise in rural and agricultural property.I provide practical and commercial advice to a range of private and institutional landowners on matters relating to the management of their rural property holdings. My practice includes dealing with sales and acquisitions, secured lending and landlord and tenant matters.I specialise in matters with a rural context but have extensive experience of agricultural, commercial and residential transactions. I have wide experience of dealing with agricultural tenancies (both Farm Business Tenancies and Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancies) and in dealing with commercial lettings (including complex lease re-organisations) and have advised on a variety of landlord and tenant issues. My practice also includes the first registrations, the grant of easements, sporting rights, variations of restrictive covenants and matters relating to minerals.Recent transactions include:- Recent acquisition of a 4,000 acre agricultural estate, with significant development potential. -The sale of a prestigious shooting estate in the west country and a residential estate in Sussex.-Acted for a private bank in connection with a charge over a large agricultural estate.-Acquisition of a small portfolio of highly strategic development sites in the south-west for more than £3,000,000.-Dealt with a complicated restructuring of a number of commercial units in a client's regional business park.-Acquired a racing yard and grant of a lease to a trainer

I advised institutional landowners on their commercial property portfolios and dealt with a wide variety of transactions including sales, acquisitions and leases.