United Kingdom - Wales • Private client

Lanyon Bowdler

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The 'personable, efficient and effective' team at Lanyon Bowdler continues to thrive in the local market, picking up an ever increasing volume of work for North Walian clients since the formal opening of an office in Conwy in 2019. The 'very responsive and skilled' Edward Nutting  has been pivotal to the office's success and connects very well with local clients, not only as a result of his industry knowledge and property law expertise, but also his Welsh language speaking capabilities.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'I found the North Wales team of Lanyon Bowdler to be personable, efficient and effective. It was clear to me immediately that I was in safe hands.'
  • 'Edward Nutting is very responsive and skilful.'

Key clients

  • Lord Harlech
  • Lord Newborough
  • Mona Island Dairy Limited
  • Charles Neal Morris
  • Sweeney Estate Trustees
  • The Wynne-Finch Estate Trustees
  • Robert Wynne Evans

Work highlights

  • Act for the 12,500 acre Rhug Estate and Glynllifon Estate in North Wales, one of the UK’s most diverse landed estates.
  • Acting for Robert Wynne Evans in a complex £6m farm sale– involving common land and grazing rights, a hydroelectricity scheme, a holiday cottage, live and dead stock, and dealing with Basic Payment Scheme Entitlements and an agri-environmental scheme.
  • Acting for Mona Island Dairy Limited in relation to a s106 planning agreement connected with a new £20m cheese factory which will create 100 jobs in Anglesey.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Edward Nutting

Edward Nutting

Lanyon Bowdler

Edward heads the office in Conwy, he is a partner and member of the Commercial & Agricultural Property Team. Edward specialises in the sale and purchase of farms and estates including sales by auction, high value mortgages, sale and purchase of commercial property and businesses, various types of leases, land law issues relating to common land, sporting rights, manorial rights, complex mesne of holding and organising land, easements, profit a-prendre, water abstraction, drainage and fishing, option and overage agreements, tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995. He also assists the Private Client Department on the succession issues within businesses.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Brian Evans (Shrewsbury)

Other key lawyers

Edward Nutting, Kevin Thomas