Simon Ellis > Aaron & Partners LLP > Chester, England > Lawyer Profile
Aaron & Partners LLP Offices
5-7 GROSVENOR COURT
FOREGATE STREET
CHESTER
CH1 1HG
England
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Simon Ellis
Work Department
Real Estate Law
Position
Partner
Career
Simon’s main areas of expertise are commercial property and charity law, the latter of which he has been recommended for in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading expert. He undertakes all aspects of non-contentious charity work, in particular charity property, including acquisitions and disposals as well as options and site assembly for development. He advises on the formation of charities and incorporation of existing and new charities.
He has extensive experience of ecclesiastical matters, acting in the past for diocesan boards of finance, incumbents and sequestrators in relation to benefice land. He also acts for parochial church councils, especially in property matters, including voluntary registrations of glebe and parsonage land and diocesan corporate property.
Education
Simon qualified as a solicitor following service in the Cheshire Regiment in Hong Kong, Cyprus, Canada, Germany, Northern Ireland and Bosnia.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Private client > Agriculture and estates
Aaron & Partners LLP provides a ‘professional and efficient service’ to rural businesses and private clients on a broad range of agricultural and estate issues, and the group has specialist knowledge in matters relating to renewable projects, land acquisition for utility projects, and mineral registration and extraction projects. In Chester, the group is co-led by Joseph Fletcher-Hunt, who heads the agricultural and rural group and is experienced in a broad range of property matters, and Simon Ellis, who specialises in the real estate aspects of rural affairs. The ‘outstanding’ Brent Williams, who is experienced in all aspects of commercial and agricultural property and also advises on issues arising from horse-racing and the breeding industry, is another key contact.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in the North West
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy and projects
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the North West
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the North West
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy and projects
- Private client > Family
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery