Real estate.

Michael leads the firm’s national agriculture sector. His areas of specialism cover the acquisition and disposal of estates and farms, farm tenancies, joint ventures, development and promotion agreements, partnership agreements, contracting agreements. Recent examples of Michael’s work include advising a consortium of landowners in relation to the promotion of 400 acres of land for development, advising an estate on the restructuring of its agricultural tenancies so as to enhance the ability to achieve 100% IHT relief, restructuring the agricultural tenancies on an estate prior to sale of the estate and advising on the termination of a farming partnership.

Trained Mills & Reeve LLP; qualified 1991; partner 1997 to date. Publications of note: writes periodically for the Farmers Weekly and Solicitors Journal.

Agricultural Law Association, Royal Forestry Society, Law Society, Royal Agricultural Society of England.

Whitland Grammar School, Carmarthenshire; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (1984-87).

Referee to three young boys, rugby, cricket.