Claire is a Partner in the firm's award-winning agricultural team, advising farmers, landowners, estate owners and rural businesses on property, farming partnerships and succession.
Claire combines rural property expertise with private wealth experience. That lets her look at a client's land, business structure and family plans together, so transactions and succession arrangements support each other rather than being handled in isolation.
On the property side, Claire acts on the sale and purchase of farms, estates and rural property, high value secured lending, farm and commercial tenancies, and complex unregistered land. She also advises on the partnership and LLP structures through which many farming families own and run their land. This includes preparing and reviewing partnership agreements that reflect how the business actually operates and how it will pass to the next generation.
Claire is a full Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). She advises on estate, succession and tax planning for farmers, estate owners and equestrian business owners, including lifetime gifts of farmland, transfers into trust, and the land and title work needed to put succession plans into effect.
