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Michael Aubrey heads up the department at Mills & Reeve LLP, and has considerable expertise in advising on major infrastructure and development projects as well as large-scale renewable energy schemes. The practice has a national reach and skilfully deals with the complete range of matters relating to rural land and the agribusiness sector. In addition to its traditional farming clients, it acts for several of the landowning Cambridge and Oxford colleges, several pension funds, numerous prestigious landed estates and many substantial national farming businesses. Amanda Tagg is recommended for her transactional advice to institutional landowners on all aspects of their agricultural property portfolios, and Tim Ryan also plays a pivotal role in the practice.

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Key clients

  • Oxford University Endowment Management

Work highlights

  • Acting on the acquisition of the Exning Estate in Newmarket. This multi-faceted rural estate comprises 719 hectares of commercial, residential and agricultural properties including an Equine Hospital, 155 acre solar farm and 40 residential dwellings.
  • Advising Christ Church and its JV partner on all aspects of the promotion of a 1,540 home site at Bayswater, Oxford.

Lawyers

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Michael Aubrey

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Michael leads the firm’s national agriculture sector. His areas of specialism cover the acquisition and disposal of estates and farms, farm tenancies, joint ventures, development and promotion agreements, partnership agreements, contracting agreements. Recent examples of Michael’s work include advising a consortium of landowners in relation to the promotion of 400 acres of land for development, advising an estate on the restructuring of its agricultural tenancies so as to enhance the ability to achieve 100% IHT relief, restructuring the agricultural tenancies on an estate prior to sale of the estate and advising on the termination of a farming partnership.

Leading individuals

Tim Ryan

Mills & Reeve LLP

Rural development and strategic land issues; co-operation, promotion, option, overage and pre-emption agreements; farm tenancies.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Michael Aubrey

Other key lawyers

Tim Ryan, Amanda Tagg