ANDREW GREEN
PARTNER
Admitted as a Solicitor: 1972
CONTACT DETAILS
Tel: 020 3059 1537
Email: andrew.green@djblaw.co.uk
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Agriculture
Andrew is a highly experienced agricultural lawyer with many decades of experience. He has contributed to, and is a member of, the Sustainable Food Trust,and is concerned for the survival of the family owned farming business and, in general, about the decline in the quality of food we eat.
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His expertise includes advising on: farming partnerships, farm succession planning strategies and farm diversification strategies as well as farms and land sales and purchases, overage, agricultural tenancies and general property matters.
WORK HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE ​
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Concluding the sale of a farm for the development of 600 houses for £10.3 million.
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Buying a farm, with one leasehold title of part for a term of 4,000 years dating from 1718, for £2.5 million.
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Buying a farm for £7 million and effecting a sub-sale of part for £2.75 million immediately prior to completion of the purchase.
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Settling land capital farming partnerships under the “Balfour”principle and implementing a diversification strategies.
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Dealing with dissolution of farming partnerships, the partition of the land and the division of equipment, live and dead stock between the former partners.
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Advising on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1986 matters and disputes and settling farm business tenancies under the 1995 Act.
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Advising on a shareholder’s action for “unfair prejudice” under the Companies Act, 1986 involving a family property company.
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Initiating and dealing with the demerger of a data services company worth £12 million with substantial investments in mining companies.