Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Property - Landed Estates and Agriculture

Rupert is an senior associate in the Landed Estates and Agriculture team.

Rupert’s specialism is in property-related rural matters, from sales and purchases of landed estates and farms to re-financings, partitions, easements, sporting leases, agricultural tenancies and licences and commercial tenancies of diversified agri-businesses.

Rupert trained at Clifford Chance LLP and qualified in 2011. He then practised as an agricultural property lawyer in Oxford and Cheltenham before joining the Army in 2015, serving as an officer in the Army Legal Services. He retired as a Major last year, but continues to serve in the Reserves, and picked up where he left off as an agricultural property lawyer in Cheltenham before joining Payne Hicks Beach LLP in 2022.

French

Rupert is a member of the Agricultural Law Association and the Country Land and Business Association.

Rupert studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated in 2005.

Rupert has a keen interest in country sports and rural affairs. He is also a keen clarinettist, and is a trustee of the Malcolm Arnold Festival.