Agriculture, Environment and Estates

Stephanie is always very quick to respond to any queries and always keeps clients informed during complex matters. She is extremely diligent and always seeks to provide a solution to issues.

Rory is a farmer himself and really knows about farming which helps a lot in dealing with agriculture clients. He is also thorough in the advice he gives and is particularly practical and pragmatic.

Greg Hill is conscientious and efficient, supportive, and understanding of circumstances.

Gareth Williams has been exceptional on options and large property transactions. I doubt there is a lawyer with more understanding in this field.

Emily Pumfrey is hard working, knowledgeable and doesn’t dodge a fight on behalf of her client.

Denise is wonderful to deal with and the breadth of her experience in landownership issues is very impressive. She is also excellent on land development and newer areas.

Rory Hutchings is a very good networker and is able to understand our needs and signpost us to the right piece of advice.

We deal with Stephanie Dennis in the Agriculture team and the support we receive is always first class. She has extensive knowledge of a wide range of areas and her advice is always tailored to the circumstance which is extremely important for us. She is an excellent communicator and always gives prompt and relevant advice.

Gareth Williams is unrivalled in the field of option agreements, promotion agreements, and solar agreements. Stephanie Dennis is equally skilled in all aspects of rural work. Both are prepared to go the extra mile. They give clear sound advice and are not afraid of pointing out the exposure to risk in any deal.

Denise Wilkinson‘s understanding of our needs has been amazing. Her retention of the detail of our portfolio of land holdings has saved us hours of delving through paperwork. She has been incredibly adept at developing solutions to problems, while ensuring we understand associated risks at all stages. When problems have arisen in other areas of our work, she has been quick to find us appropriate support. We are particularly grateful to Denise for her rapid grasp of complicated proposals, and the thoroughness of her advice.

HCR’s agriculture and estates team have been advising us on a range of issues for many years. We have been very impressed with both the breadth and depth of their knowledge. It has been really important to us that HCR have understood our work and how it is evolving. They have been incredibly thorough in their advice, having dealt with complicated purchases for us recently, but they have also been highly adaptable, offering solutions to new processes, such as agreements for the provision of Biodiversity Net Gain.

I have worked with both Denise Wilkinson and Emily Pumfrey jointly representing a client. Both Denise and Emily provided an excellent quality of service that was distinctive in respect of their level of expertise, due diligence, eye for detail and the way in which they were able to explain complex points of detail in simple terms for everyone’s benefit, including out client.