Legal Director / Junior Partner – Landed Estates & Rural Property | London

Lex Exec is working with one of London’s best-known private client firms to recruit a senior rural property lawyer into its highly regarded Landed Estates & Agriculture practice.

This is a genuinely specialist opportunity for an established Landed Estates lawyer looking for a senior role with significant client responsibility, autonomy and a credible route to Partnership.

The appointment can be structured at Legal Director or potentially at Partner level, depending on the individual’s current practice, experience and business case.

The team advises landowners, farming families and the owners of significant landed estates across the UK. Its clients include the owners of more than 50 landed estates and country houses, ranging from approximately 150 to 12,000 acres.

The work combines sophisticated rural property transactions with long-term strategic advice to landed families and includes:

Sales and purchases of farms, estates and country houses
Agricultural tenancies and estate management
Easements, rights of way and complex land rights
Succession and generational change
Farming business reorganisations
Renewable energy and mineral arrangements
Diversification projects
Natural capital and carbon projects

The successful lawyer will work closely with leading Private Client and Tax specialists, providing joined-up advice on the property, succession and wider commercial issues affecting significant landed estates and farming families.

This could particularly suit an established Legal Director, Senior Associate or existing Partner who has built substantial expertise in the rural and landed estates market but is looking for a platform offering stronger progression, sophisticated private client work and the opportunity to play a meaningful role in the future development of the practice.

A substantial portable following is not necessarily required. Of greater importance is genuine Landed Estates expertise, strong client relationships, commercial awareness and the ability to operate credibly at a senior level.

There is a genuine route towards Partnership, with the precise entry point and progression plan shaped around the individual.

Location: Central London
Level: Legal Director / Junior Partner
Practice: Landed Estates & Agriculture
Type: Permanent, full-time

For a confidential discussion, please contact Colin Lynam at Lex Exec on colin@lex-exec.com.

About Lex Exec

Lex Exec is a specialist legal recruitment business focused on a small number of practice areas where we have deep market knowledge and established candidate networks.

We recruit lawyers from NQ through to Partner level and work with leading UK and international law firms on retained, exclusive and difficult-to-fill searches.

Our approach is deliberately targeted rather than volume-led. We take the time to understand both the opportunity and the individual lawyer, and we only make introductions where there is a genuine fit.