Howes Percival adds well known agricultural real estate expert to meet growing demand

27th November, 2024

Howes Percival has expanded its Agriculture and Estates team in the Norwich with the appointment of Legal Director Esther Round.

Howes Percival’s Agriculture and Estates team deals with the management of landed estates and farms, tax-efficient structuring, agricultural property, development land and tax. The team has a deep understanding of all types of landowning issues and is particularly known for dealing with unusually complex legal matters and finding solutions to help manage agricultural estates or farming businesses.

Esther is an experienced agricultural real estate solicitor who advises on all aspects of rural property and estates advisory and transactional work. She acts for rural landowners, estate owners, charitable institutions, governmental bodies, large corporate entities, financial institutions and agri-businesses.

Esther is experienced in large scale, high value acquisitions, disposals, financing and refinancing projects and has specialisms in advising on agricultural tenancies and Natural Capital projects including Biodiversity Net Gain schemes, Nutrient Neutrality mitigation, Carbon sequestration and rewilding projects, as well as advising on options, easements, commons land, adverse possession and unregistered title issues.

The Agriculture and Estates team supports the firm’s broader Private Client Services practice to provide a full-service offering, covering all the aspects of legal advice that landowners, landed estates and farmers need.

Head of Agriculture and Estates, Katharine Danks commented,

We are delighted to welcome Esther to Howes Percival. Esther has a strong background in agricultural and rural property law and is very well known in the Norfolk rural property market. This is an important appointment for us as we are look to grow the team in the East to meet increased demand. It’s a very interesting time to be an agricultural property lawyer with significant changes impacting the sector, creating a number of potential challenges over the next few years, and our clients will need our help to navigate these.

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