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Irwin Mitchell—Charlotte West

19 November 2020
Issue: 7911 / Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
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Firm appoints new associate

Irwin Mitchell has announced that it has appointed Charlotte West as an associate in its rural business and estates team. Charlotte joins from Blake Morgan LLP where she was working as an associate.

Charlotte has been working solely in agricultural and rural property for seven years, acting on all types of matters including: purchase and sales of farms, landed estates, rural commercial and residential properties and land plots; refinances—from small single property refinances to large scales refinances of landed estates, commercial and residential portfolios; transfers, farm business tenancies and overage agreements; residential and commercial leases and licences and providing bespoke agricultural advice in respect of Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies; farm business tenancies; and agricultural worker tenancies. She also has experience of large and small scale first registration exercises along with adverse possession applications and prescriptive easement rights.

In particular she has acted for several landed estates including an estate of over 10,000+ acres, advised on the sale of a commercial property portfolio worth over £20m with leaseback, loan and SDLT group and leaseback relief and has carried out property due diligence on an estate for a lender on a facility of nearly £25m.

James Pavey, head of rural business & estates, said: ‘I am delighted that Charlotte has joined us to bolster our offering to farms and estates. She has significant experience of all aspects of rural property—agricultural, residential and commercial, as well as property finance.  She is well-placed, as part of a growing team, to help our landowner and rural business clients meet the challenges of the next decade: the implications of COVID and, more particularly, of Brexit and climate change.’

Issue: 7911 / Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
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