Rural Businesses Solicitors for clients in Sussex including Brighton, Uckfield and Seaford
Rix & Kay’s head office is located in the heart of the beautiful south east – and for decades they have been advising farmers and a wide range of other rural business owners.
They have a detailed understanding of rural economic, legal and agricultural issues that would be rare to find in a city-based firm.
Working Together
Working alongside client and his/her accountants, land agent and bank, Rix & Kay can help with:
- Strategic business planning, including succession
- Shareholder, partnership and LLP agreements
- Joint Ventures, including cooperatives
- Business start-ups, mergers acquisitions and restructuring
- Business diversification
- Building and land conversion, including planning law
- Supply agreements and terms of business
- Employment law
- Health and safety
- Environmental law
- Countryside Rights of Way (including coastal access issues)
- Rural property law, including common land and rights
- Development land agreements
- Utility wayleaves and telecommunications
- Agricultural tenancies and licences
- Family trusts, wills, estate administration and wealth preservation
- Dispute resolution
- Family break-ups
- Taxation
Whether starting out, assessing the present or managing the future, Rix & Kay can help rural clients maximise their potential. They can advise on all legal aspects of estate management, including diversification through building conversions, leisure and mineral exploitation. They can also help with opportunities for land development centred on commercial and residential schemes.
Over the years, Rix & Kay will look at the most effective means by which the rural business can be enhanced and eventually passed on to the chosen successors – whether that is by sale, gifting, establishing trusts, or by the use of will, optimising tax planning opportunities.
