Rural law
Rural law
Napthens rural law team is a centre of excellence, serving the rural and agricultural community in Lancashire, Cumbria, and Merseyside.
We are one of the panel lawyers to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and have a dedicated team of legal experts who deliver outstanding support to our rural and farming community.
From buying, selling and refinancing farms, to advising and legally supporting our rural clients, the team is a stand-out leader in the region. We have strong relations with the region’s leading land agents, work closely with tax specialists across the region’s accountancy practices and act for banks, including on panels for a number of those, including Oxbury Bank, HSBC, and Virgin.
How Napthens can help
We support the rural community across the north west with a wide range of services, supporting ongoing and new challenges.
The support we provide includes a new service to help preserve the future of our farming community, providing a tailored package of services to ensure each client receives the dedicated support they need.
The services we provide to the rural community include:
- Agricultural and equine tenancies including FBTs and AHA secure tenancies
- Buying and selling land, farms and woodland
- Clawback (overage) agreements and pre-emption agreements
- Common land
- Dealing with and registration of unregistered land
- Development options and S106 planning agreements for landowners
- Diversification activities
- FarmFuture – our bespoke support for succession and future-proofing a farm business
- Granting rights (easements) over land
- Refinance work for landowners, estates and farmers
- Renewable energy projects
- Wills and estate planning
The team is recognised by The Legal 500 as a Tier 1 firm
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