Rural Business
Rural businesses and the agricultural sector in general have dealt with significant change in recent years. It is therefore more important than ever to seek expert advice and professional support from legal advisers who have hands-on experience in the sector.
Napthens has established precisely that sort of expertise in agricultural law and other legal issues affecting farmers, landowners and rural businesses of all kinds. Our service covers a broad range of areas including sales and purchases, partnership formation and dissolution, and retirement planning. Napthens is one of only sixteen National Farmers Union Legal Panel firms nationally, providing advice and assistance to members throughout Lancashire and Cumbria.
For expert legal advice from people with real understanding of the issues affecting you and your business, rely on Napthens’ Rural Business team.
The team advises clients on a wide range of issues but specialises in the following:
- Sale and purchase of farms and businesses
- Sale and purchase of land and quotas
- Planning and development
- Tax and estate planning
- Wayleaves and easements
- Partnership formation and dissolution
- Tenancies and licences
- Contractual disputes
- Tenancy disputes
- Rights of way and boundary disputes
- Negligence claims
- Pollution, health and safety prosecutions
- Divorce