Chris Brand

Senior Associate

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What can I do for you

Chris is a senior associate in our real estate disputes team, specialising in agricultural, commercial and residential property disputes. Chris is regularly instructed in high-value and complex property disputes for private, educational and public sector landowners.

Chris’ work covers all landlord and tenant issues, trusts of land disputes, nuisance claims, rights of way and other easements, trespass and boundary disputes. Chris is also a member of our telecoms team and regularly acts for landowners in relation to contentious telecoms matters.

What do others say

Legal 500 says: ‘I have been particularly impressed with Chris Brand. He is very responsive and thorough, and provides real support and value for money. He is very bright and has lots of common sense and practical suggestions’

Supporting your ambitions

Chris formed part of the team who successfully represented an agricultural investment company in a high value and complex arbitration involving issues relating to lease interpretation and technical expert issues on the operation of biomass heating systems used for poultry production.

Chris also formed part of the team who successfully defended a private criminal prosecution for statutory noise nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act. Chris and the team acted for the defendant, a demolition contractor working on a multi-million pound development in Mayfair.

What else should you know?

Chris co-chairs Greenshoots, a networking group for young professionals working in the food and agri-business sectors in Norfolk.

Chris sits on the junior committee for the Property Litigation Association as the representative for the East Anglia region.

Chris was awarded Junior Lawyer of the Year 2019 by the Norfolk and Norwich Law Society.

 

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”