Tristan Ward

Partner

+44(0)20 7783 3421
[email protected]
Location

London

Profile

Services

Tristan leads BDB Pitmans’ landed estates and agriculture team. As well as having 25 years’ experience as a property solicitor, he is a farmer’s son and farmed his family farm alone and in partnership for 14 years. This gives him unparalleled practical knowledge of issues that arise in the sale, purchase and management of rural and agricultural property related matters.

In addition, Tristan is one of London’s leading advisers in the residential property market, having been nominated by Chambers and Partners for the award of Residential Property Lawyer of the Year in 2018.

Recommended in Best Lawyers Business Edition 2020 for Rural Affairs in London since 2009.

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'Tristan Ward excels at managing high value residential property deals. He is extremely knowledgeable and able to give excellent commercial advice within demanding deadlines. On a recent matter he was very ably assisted by Rachel Crapnell.’
Legal 500
'Tristan is an extremely intelligent lawyer, very detailed and excellent at the legal process. He is in a class of his own in terms of technicality and ability to deal with very complex transactions.'
Chambers HNW 2024
'Tristan is an excellent, well-respected advisor in this market.'
Chambers HNW 2024
'Tristan Ward is a very good lawyer, bright and meticulous.'
Chambers UK, 2024
'I think Tristan Ward is second to none as a pure technical lawyer.'
Chambers UK, 2024
'Tristan Ward is always calm, always measured and always knows what to do and more importantly when to do it.'
Chambers UK, 2024
‘Tristan Ward is very intelligent and detailed’.
Legal 500, 2024
‘Tristan Ward is extremely intelligent and thorough’.
Legal 500, 2024
‘I have worked with Tristan Ward at BDB Pitmans. Tristan has an outstanding knowledge of landed estates and all the complexities that go with them. His technical excellence and attention to detail have been exemplary’.
Legal 500, 2024
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Career Highlights

Acting for an entrepreneur purchasing an estate for a ten figure sum including a mansion house, two secondary houses, two dozen further cottages and some 3,000 acres of arable land and woodland. Contracts were exchanged 2 weeks after the parties shook hands on the deal.
Acting for an agriculture fund over its 10 year life in the acquisition, management and subsequent disposal of its core farmland holding, totalling some 2,500 acres including cottages.
Assisting numerous families engaged in negotiating the sale of land to house builders, wind farm operators and solar farm sites by way of sale contract, option agreement and promotion agreements.
Advising in connection with the purchase of a London penthouse flat and associated property ‘off-plan’ at a price of more than £100 million – probably the highest value private residential property transaction of 2018.