Estates and private property.

Simon is head of the estates and private property team. He advises large landowning clients (primarily those with landed estates) on all aspects of property law arising in relation to their ownership including all investment leasing as well as sales and purchases. Clients include institutional and charitable bodies (e.g. The Duchy Of Lancaster and the Church Commissioners) as well as a number of private estates.

Trained at Farrer & Co, qualified in 1988, became a partner in 1995, appointed Assistant Solicitor for the Affairs of the Duchy of Lancaster 1996.

Agricultural Law Association, Cambridge University Land Society, Country Land and Business Association, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, Westminster and Holborn Law Society, and Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds.

Cambridge University.