Sills & Betteridge appoints leading Tax and Agriculture Lawyer for rural clients

Sills & Betteridge are delighted to announce the appointment of highly respected private client lawyer David Wood, who has joined the firm as a partner.

David’s practice includes advising business owners and high net worth individuals in relation to inheritance tax, capital gains tax, wills, trusts, succession and business planning, with particular niche expertise in advising farmers, and landed estates.

The hire supports the firm’s ambition for further growth across the region, and underlines its ethos to provide a first class, cross – discipline service to its commercial and high net worth private and farming clients.

David has been consistently recognised for both his tax and private client work and his Landed Estates and Agriculture work in the Legal 500, Chambers and Chambers High Net Worth publications. He was the Under Sheriff for Lincolnshire for 3 years from 2016 to 2019.

David has a nationwide client base and will work primarily in Lincolnshire. He will also assist with the development of the firm’s offices in the neighbouring counties of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire.

The firm has grown significantly over the last 5 years through organic and acquired growth, and now has 15 offices and over 300 partners and staff.