England - East Midlands • Private client
Roythornes Solicitors
The agriculture team at Roythornes Solicitors works for farm businesses and estates across England on a range of matters, with a particular expertise in Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies. Tim Russ specialises in disputes surrounding agricultural law, food law, private client and property, while Claire Hindmarsh advises clients on all aspects of rural property. Edd Johnson leads the natural resources team, while Tim Galloway focuses on estate planning with a particular focus on business succession and trust restructuring.
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Testimonials
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‘Excellent track record and expertise in various areas. Extremely responsive. Very friendly and professional at all times.’
‘Edd Johnson - excellent and well experienced solicitor. always very responsive, friendly and professional. Always get deals done.’
‘The Roythornes agricultural team is market-leading in its strength and depth of expertise. It is unquestionably one of the top few firms for work in this area - both agricultural property law and relates areas - and has excellent industry connections.’
‘Tim Russ is a leading expert in agricultural property litigation, including such highly technical areas as proprietary estoppel, succession claims and partnership disputes.’
‘Tim Russ has an encyclopaedic knowledge of agricultural law and works at pace with great efficiency and pragmatism.’
‘Ben Taylor is extremely helpful and always up for a challenge.'
‘Its a good quality that the leading Partners are involving the next generation (para legal) in high level meetings/ cases and advancing their experience in readiness to take Roythornes on for years to come.’
‘The practice genuinely understand agriculture and make an effort to become part of our team. No other professionals, including accountants, have ever made such efforts with us and this is greatly valued. We also have continuity of people as there does not seem to be a high turnover of staff, which makes our life easier.’
Work highlights
- Acting for a landowning family in relation to a 500MW solar development and energy storage park involving over 1,600 acres of land.
- Representing a father against his son in connection with the family farm which is worth in the region of £3 million.
- Acting for landowner trustees in a joint disposal transaction with a neighbouring landowner (separately represented), selling approximately 1100 acres of agricultural land to a national housebuilder for residential development for a total sale price of over £60m.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Tim Russ