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Company / Commercial

Senior Associate

Andrew is a senior associate in our Company/Commercial and Agriculture teams, specialising in helping owner managed businesses and farming partnerships grow, diversify and plan for succession. He has contributed to, and is a member of, the Sustainable Food Trust, and is concerned for the survival of the family owned farming business and, in general, about the decline in the quality of food we eat.

His expertise includes advising on :

Farming partnerships Farm succession planning strategies Farm diversification strategies Company reorganisations and family investment company work

Additionally, Andrew handles a wide range of transactional work for both companies and farms. His recent work include:

Farming Matters concluding the sale of a farm for the development of 600 houses for £10.3 million; buying a farm, with one leasehold title of part for a term of 4,000 years dating from 1718,  for £2.5 million; settling a land capital farming partnership under the “Balfour” principle and implementing a diversification strategy; dealing with the dissolution of a farming partnership and consequent sale of the live and dead stock. Company/Commercial Matters settling the strategy for, and implementing the demerger of, a private company with mining interests in Africa; advising on a shareholder’s action for “unfair prejudice”  involving a family property company; preparing  a company for the eventual sale of the whole of the issued share capital by the owner on retirement; implementing and negotiating the termination of a franchise by the franchisee.