Jeremy Stanton

Jeremy joined Birketts in January 2019 and is based in Cambridge.

He is a Partner in the Agriculture and Estates Team.

Jeremy is a specialist land lawyer. He has over 25 years advised a wide range of clients including farmers, private landowners, estates, developers, housebuilders, energy companies, and institutional clients. He draws on that experience to advise predominantly landowner clients.

His areas of expertise include an in-depth sector knowledge of Strategic Land Development, Renewable Energy, and Natural Capital, alongside more typical transactions buying and selling land, farming arrangements and general estate management matters.

Jeremy brings a real interest and enthusiasm to his client’s projects, pushing them forward, clients welcoming his client engagement and proactive approach. He draws on his farming family background to take both a holistic approach to agreeing then achieving longer term family objectives, alongside processing pragmatically and effectively transactional work.

Transactional experience and documentation includes for Strategic Land projects, promotion agreements, options, conditional contracts, and collaborations agreements, leading to acquisition and disposals of development land. Renewables projects include options to lease, easements and related agreements, for mainly solar and battery storage projects. For Natural Capital projects, documentation includes drafting and negotiating Nutrient Neutrality schemes, Habitat Management and Mitigation projects, Bio Diversity Net Gain arrangements, and other Environmental Land Management arrangements. Jeremy takes a lead role in structuring, negotiating and delivering project objectives in new areas of the law.

Jeremy plays a key role in Birketts’ Strategic Land Development team, the Clean Energy & Infrastructure team, the Natural Capital and the Landed Estates team. He is a member of the CLA and Agricultural Law Association.