Lanyon Bowdler

Commercial and Agricultural Property

Edward heads the office in Conwy, he is a partner and member of the Commercial & Agricultural Property Team.

Edward specialises in the sale and purchase of farms and estates including sales by auction, high value mortgages, sale and purchase of commercial property and businesses, various types of leases, land law issues relating to common land, sporting rights, manorial rights, complex mesne of holding and organising land, easements, profit a-prendre, water abstraction, drainage and fishing, option and overage agreements, tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.

He also assists the Private Client Department on the succession issues within businesses.

Edward began his career with a specialist agricultural practice in North Wales, Cyfraith JRL Law and became a director of that company in 2013.

Cyfraith JRL Law became part of Allington Hughes Law where Edward remained as a director until 2015 when he joined Hibberts Solicitors in Cheshire as a partner to head their agricultural department.

In 2018 Edward joined Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors a partner in the commercial and agricultural property department.

Edward is one of the ALA’s regional co-ordinators for Wales, he is a past Farming Connect Rural Leadership Scholar and also sits on the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show Advisory Committee.

English and Welsh

Edward is a member of the Agricultural Law Association, Country Land and Business Association, the National Farmers Union and the Farmers Union of Wales.

Edward became a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association in 2016 and also received the Chairman’s Trophy for obtaining the highest mark of the year.

In 2016 Edward was also elected a Council Member of the Agricultural Law Association for a term of three years.