Simon Cunningham > Ashtons Legal > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Ashtons Legal Offices
TRAFALGAR HOUSE
MERIDIAN WAY
NORWICH
NR7 0TA
England
Simon Cunningham
Work Department
Agriculture & Estates
Position
Partner
Career
Simon acts for farmers, landowners, and agricultural businesses. He has worked in East Anglia for over 20 years and has a solid knowledge of all aspects of property law.
Due to his expertise in acting for a wide variety of rural businesses and a diverse client base, he is able to identify issues and solutions quickly.
Simon’s practical and creative approach allows him to provide advice from a commercial perspective as well as understanding the underlying agricultural businesses and the issues which may affect their property and business.
He advises on a broad range of property-related matters including:
- sales and acquisitions of farms and land
- agricultural landlord and tenant work both commercial and residential
- estate management including farming arrangements
- occupational and third party rights
- diversification projects including energy generation projects.
Simon also heads up our Rural Energy Team and has been involved in a number of projects across the region and nationally. This has resulted in expertise in acting for landowners and developers.
He is a Fellow of the ALA and a member of the Country Land & Business Association and RNAA.
Languages
English
Memberships
Law Society
Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association
Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (also Steward at Norfolk Show)
Education
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne – 1991 to 1994- 2(i) BA (Hons) in Politics and Economics
College of Law, London 1994 to 1996
Fellowship of Agricultural Law Association
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates
(Leading partners)‘Its knowledge and experience is as good as any firm in the region‘, say clients of Ashtons Legal. ‘Wonderfully reassuring‘ practice head Jeanette Dennis works from the Bury St Edmunds office, where new hire Ayesha Brown from Roythornes Solicitors is also based. Dennis leads the succession team, in which Brown is a key partner. The ‘pleasant, approachable and patient‘ Simon Cunningham in Norwich has a long track record in advising farmers, landowners, and agricultural businesses. He also leads the rural energy and natural capital group, which is active both regionally and nationally. Senior associates Rebecca Gatens in Ipswich and Karen Bacon in Norwich stand out for property matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Agriculture and estates East Anglia > Private client
- Leading partners East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Transport and shipping
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge