Solicitors for Agricultural Businesses

Rix & Kay has a detailed understanding of the economic, legal and agricultural issues affecting farmers, landowners and rural business owners, having operated in this sector for decades. Our dedicated Rural Business team consists of solicitors who are heavily involved in the farming community.

Agricultural solicitors

Our Rural Business team works alongside clients and their accountants, land agents, financial institutions and other trusted advisors to ensure we fully understand the range of issues involved for each client.

We put together dedicated, multi-disciplinary teams to provide commercial solutions tailored to each client’s needs.

We are specialists in the following areas:

• Farm sales, estate purchases and leasing
• Diversification, including planning advice
• Building and land conversion
• Supply agreements and terms of business
• Boundary disputes
• Agricultural tenancies and licences
• Family trusts, wills, estate administration and wealth preservation
• Estate succession planning
• Business succession planning
• Rural property law, including common land and rights
• Utility way leaves and telecommunications
• Countryside and granting rights of way (including coastal access issues)
• Development land agreements

“The agriculture and rural business practice at Rix & Kay is led by managing partner Richard Cripps. The team is particularly skilled at handling property transactions, including diversification projects as well as farm sales and purchases. Bruce Clarke is another notable member of the team, and has experience advising on tax and succession planning issues, estate administration work, and personal wealth management mandates”.

“The team at Rix & Kay has a wealth of experience and understand the issues faced by the agricultural sector”.

“Richard Cripps demonstrated a deep knowledge of the development land sector as well as offered swift and pragmatic advice”.

Industry peers praise Rix & Kay in the latest edition of Legal 500