Our real estate solicitors offer an experienced pair of hands providing you with an end-to-end service in the dynamic and challenging world of real estate.

Our specialist wills, tax and trust planning lawyers advise clients on how to best protect their assets, ensuring that the wealth that they have generated through their lifetime is protected for the future, whatever their circumstances.

As a firm with a reputation for ‘getting things done’, our education clients appreciate our clear, commercial advice and our focus on providing practical, cost-effective answers.

With an agricultural heritage spanning 170 years, we are one of the long-established agricultural law firms.

We advise listed and private companies on how they can pay and incentivise their employees, management and senior team in tax efficient ways.

Company share options plans are tax efficient, HM Revenue & Customs tax favoured options which offer a useful alternative where more flexible and tax efficient Enterprise Management Incentive (“EMI”) options are not available.

Disputes between shareholders of a private company are commonplace, which is probably not that surprising when you consider that shareholders’ interests will diverge over time.

Employment and consultancy contracts often contain clauses restricting an individual’s working activity when they leave a business. These post termination restrictions, also called ‘restrictive covenants’, typically restrict the ex-staff member’s ability to work in competing businesses, to deal with clients, to try to win business from them, or to poach other staff members.

Our residential development solicitors act for landowners, private sector developers, promoters and affordable housing providers on all aspects of the development process from land assembly and acquisition through to site set up and plot sales.

Our dedicated science parks team provide legal services to support science and technology parks, incubators and accelerators and their tenants.