Our Agriculture Team has been involved in a number of high-profile matters. Highlights include:
- Advising a landowner on a complex AD plant project where the AD plant is being leased to a third party with service, feedstock and digestate agreements also put in place with the landowner
- Advising landowners on an option agreement with a developer, involving complex issues arising from tenancy on part of the farm, and one of the family members being a patient of the Court of Protection
- Acting for a bank on secured lending (over £10m) to an estate where complex due diligence – due to the nature of trusts, including Channel Islands trustees – was required
- Restructuring an estate for tax efficiency purposes in a case where the client didn’t want to use trusts
- Completing a land assembly of surrounding land for a landowner with a view to developing the whole site for employment use
- Advising on and completing a music festival agreement for an estate thereby securing a significant long term income source