Company

Irwin Mitchell

Position

Partner

Index

Landed Estate Lawyers

Location

London

Advice type

Contentious

Family businesses

Legal - Dispute resolution

Litigation

Public enquiries

Asset Class

Landed estates

Client Types

Families

HNW

Trusts

Sector Focus

Legal Advisory Services

Geographical Focus

United Kingdom

Customer Type

Adviser

James Pavey

Spear's Review

James Pavey is the head of Irwin Mitchell’s rural business & enterprise team in the UK, which covers a wide range of matters concerning rural landholdings, HNW and institutional landowners. He has considerable litigation expertise in both public law and private law cases and spends most of his time with property transaction matters, with a particular focus on ‘unlocking the development of land’.

Pavey increasingly spends his time performing the role of a trusted adviser, whether as a trustee or a principal adviser to trustees, or as a go-to partner for clients on all transactional matters.

Outside work, he is a member of the CLA’s Legal, Parliamentary and Property Rights Committee and a past president of the Cambridge University Land Society.

Adviser Profile

James Pavey is a Partner and Head of Rural Business & Estates at Irwin Mitchell LLP.

He is a trusted adviser for a number of landed estates, heritage properties, and rural businesses. In that role, he oversees advice and representation on issues from tax and trusts, to property and planning, to commercial and employment.

His own specialism is resolving difficult trust, property and land use problems, whether in negotiations behind closed doors or in the Supreme Court – and in many different fora in-between.

James is recognised as an expert by Chambers and the Legal 500. He is a member of the CLA's Legal, Parliamentary and Property Rights Committee and a past President of the Cambridge University Land Society.

Rank: Top Recommended

Top Recommended 2023, Landed Estate Lawyers

Share on
Network Connections

Top Recommended

Article image

Paula Myers

Irwin Mitchell

Probate and Wills Lawyers

Leeds

Top Recommended 2023 Probate and Wills Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Claire-Marie Cornford

Irwin Mitchell

Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyers

London

Top Recommended 2023 Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Alex Ruffel

Irwin Mitchell

Tax Lawyers

London

Top Recommended 2023 Tax Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Ros Bever

Irwin Mitchell

Lawyers Beyond London

Manchester

Top Recommended 2023 Lawyers Beyond London

Top Recommended

Article image

Paula James

Irwin Mitchell

Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyers

West Sussex

Top Recommended 2023 Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Darran Fawcett

Irwin Mitchell

Trusts, Structuring & Offshore

West Sussex

Top Recommended 2023 Trusts, Structuring & Offshore

Top Recommended

Article image

Thomas Wainman

Irwin Mitchell

Tax Lawyers

Leeds

Top Recommended 2023 Tax & Trusts Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Shah Qureshi

Irwin Mitchell

Employment Lawyers

London

Top Recommended 2023 Employment Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Thomas Barnard

Irwin Mitchell

Corporate Lawyers, Litigation and Dispute Resolution

London

Top Recommended 2023 Corporate Lawyers, Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Top Recommended

Article image

James Laycock

Irwin Mitchell

Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyers

Leeds

Top Recommended 2023 Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Deborah Casale

Irwin Mitchell

Employment Lawyers

London

Top Recommended 2023 Employment Lawyers

Top Recommended

Article image

Georgie Collins

Irwin Mitchell

Corporate Lawyers, Litigation and Dispute Resolution

London

Top Recommended 2023 Corporate Lawyers, Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Top Recommended

Article image

Jeremy Raj

Irwin Mitchell

Property Lawyers

London

Top Recommended 2024 Property Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Naomi Neville

Irwin Mitchell

Trusts, Structuring & Offshore

Southampton

Recommended 2023 Trusts, Structuring & Offshore

Recommended

Article image

Fran Hipperson

Irwin Mitchell

Family Lawyers

London

Recommended 2023 Family Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Kat Wainman

Irwin Mitchell

Tax Lawyers

Leeds

Recommended 2023 Tax Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Helen Clarke

Irwin Mitchell

Tax Lawyers

London

Recommended 2023 Tax Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Anoushka Parker

Irwin Mitchell

Property Lawyers

Recommended 2023 Property Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Garrath Reayer

Irwin Mitchell

Property Lawyers

Recommended 2024 Property Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Zahra Pabani

Irwin Mitchell

Family Lawyers

Birmingham

Recommended 2023 Family Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Sarah Balfour

Irwin Mitchell

Family Lawyers

West Midlands

Recommended 2023 Family Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Nathaniel Groarke

Irwin Mitchell

Family Lawyers

Manchester

Recommended 2023 Family Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Michael Taylor

Irwin Mitchell

Tax Lawyers

West Sussex

Recommended 2023 Tax Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Claire Filer

Irwin Mitchell

Family Lawyers

London

Recommended 2023 Family Lawyers

Recommended

Article image

Ashley Hill

Irwin Mitchell

Accountants & Tax Advisers

London

Recommended 2023 Accountants & Tax Advisers

Recommended

Article image

Nadia Kashani

Irwin Mitchell

Property Lawyers

Recommended 2024 Property Lawyers

Rising star

Article image

Andrea Jones

Irwin Mitchell

Tax Lawyers

Leeds

Rising star 2023 Tax Lawyers

Rising star

Article image

Mark Hands

Irwin Mitchell

Family Lawyers

Birmingham

Rising star 2023 Family Lawyers