Based in Cheltenham, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP regularly advises landed estates, high-net-worth families and heritage property owners, offering ‘top level technical capability’. Property, tax and trusts matters comprise a core aspect of the firm’s expertise. The team is led by Henry Fea, seen as ’particularly good at expressing complex legal principles’, and Tristram van Lawick, who is experienced in business structuring, land use, farming tenancies and landed estate transactions. Katie Talbot advises on property transactions, tax and succession planning. Kate Eckley focuses on rural property transaction support, particularly in the bloodstock sector.
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‘Top level technical capability combined with strength in depth.’
‘Henry Fea is particularly good at expressing complex legal principles in a way the lay client can understand.’
Work highlights
Advising individuals on all aspects of becoming new trustees of a significant landed estate.
Advising the trustees and family in relation to a heritage property and diversified landed estate with conditionally exempt chattels.
Advising purchasers on a complex, multi-party property acquisition to recreate a landed estate that had been broken up decades earlier.
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Practice head
Henry Fea; Tristram van Lawick
Other key lawyers
Katie Talbot; Kate Eckley