Ross Simpson Ws Email & Phone Number

Ross is a Partner in Burges Salmon’s Real Estate department specialising in strategic land and rural property. Ross is ranked in Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner for both London and the South West and Up and Coming in Chambers & Partners.Ross is dual qualified to practise in England and Wales, and Scotland. He is an experienced property lawyer whose clients include traditional land and estate owners, family trusts, farm partnerships, charitable foundations as well as institutions and investors. Ross undertakes complex strategic land work advising on options, promotion agreements and conditional contracts associated with major projects regularly acting for consortia of landowners.His wide-ranging rural practice spans the purchase and sale of estates, farms, country houses, commercial forestry, island properties, sporting rights and salmon fishings. Ross’s expertise also extends to advising on the real estate aspects of natural capital and ecosystem services projects involving the sale of environmental credits such as woodland planting, habitat creation, rewilding, peatland restoration and catchment management schemes. Ross presents on rural property matters at professional events and is a member of the Agricultural Law Association and the Crofting Law Group. Ross is also a Writer to His Majesty's Signet and was formerly an external examiner to the University of Glasgow.Recent experience includes:- Acting for one of the UK’s largest farming operations on the £100m+ freehold sale and disposal of 2 highly productive farming estates and associated agricultural assets involving the transfer of c. 8,350 acres, 20 residential properties and a number of let renewables schemes as well as the winding up of a major contract farming operation- Acting as lead legal adviser to Oxygen Conservation on the acquisition of all its landholdings currently totalling c.30,000 acres across 10 sites spanning England, Scotland and Wales for use for natural capital projects including woodland creation and peatland restoration. - Acting for two family trusts on ongoing performance and disposal of development land under a hybrid agreement for a garden city project northwest of Cardiff allocated for the development of 7,000 homes.- Advising a prominent UK-wide forestry management company in devising precedent agreements for carbon offsetting through tree planting.- Acting as “go to” adviser to energy developers on specialist matters affecting UK rural land including agricultural holdings, forestry, right to buy legislation, crofting and minerals

Listed skills include Rural Property, Renewable Energy, Real Estate Development, Property Law, and 23 others.

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