Hugo Greer-Walker > Greene & Greene > Bury St Edmunds, England > Lawyer Profile

Greene & Greene in Bury St Edmunds is ‘pleasant to deal with, prompt and pragmatic in negotiations‘. Calling on specialists in employment law, tax, trusts, and commercial property, practice head Jonathan Mathers advises individuals, families, farming partnerships and companies, trusts, investors and charities on rural matter. He has notable expertise in poultry-related matters. Property partner Hugo Greer-Walker is a key adviser on sales of agricultural land, as well as investment and development work, and farm tenancies. He recently advised the Leader family on the large-scale residential development of farmland at Long Stratton.

Greene & Greene in Bury St Edmunds has a strong three-partner practice that serves a diverse client base across East Anglia and beyond. The firm frequently works opposite large regional and national firms on matters of high complexity, a prime example being a £25m development for Leeder Landholdings Limited. Hugo Greer-Walker led that matter. Practice head Tim Mendes da Costa also handles multimillion-pound development projects and acquisitions, while Sally Whatley-Brown handles transactional work for individuals, corporate bodies, trusts, and public sector organisations. Clients praise the ‘excellent service and timeliness‘ of associate Julia Cardy.

Based in Bury St Edmunds, Greene & Greene is a key adviser to funders, developers, contractors, sub-contractors, and other professionals in the construction sector. The firm handles both advisory work and contentious matters, but it is particularly adept in construction disputes thanks to the experience of litigators Rob Adam and Michael Batty. They lead the practice alongside specialist construction partner Sarah Western and residential and commercial development partner Hugo Greer-Walker. Western, Greer-Walker and associate Anna Britland assisted Avant Techno (UK) Limited with a £1m warehouse project.