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.’
