Withers LLP

Real estate/landed estates.

Partner in the real estate department, specialising in the sale and purchase of rural property, agricultural land and estates. Also joint head of the landed estates group, a team of 30 lawyers who specialise in advising landowning families on succession planning, management and business issues. Bertie acts as a trustee for a number of estates. He and his team have covered £350m worth of rural property in a 12-month period to Jan ‘14, and other highlights include the lease of a 12 turbine windfarm site and security of 38 sites for the development of solar towns.

Trained Withers LLP; qualified 2003; partner 2008.

Agricultural Law Association; trustee, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust; Moorland Association; CLA (London Branch Committee), Purdey Award judge.

Eton College; Newcastle University (1999, countryside management (1st class hons); University of Northumbria at Newcastle (2000, PGDL commendation; 2001, LPC distinction).

Country sports.