Daniel Ball

Daniel Ball leads the firm’s thriving Agriculture, Rural Enterprise and Renewables service. He has a wealth of experience in advising landowners and farmers and is both a Member of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association.

His team is recommended by the Legal 500 for Agriculture & Estates work and he is praised by clients for providing efficient, commercial, clear and concise advice, receiving comments such as “Dan Ball is an excellent communicator, highly efficient and provides sound, clear legal advice”.

Daniel is based in the firm’s Wisbech office but advises clients across the region. He also represents the firm’s Commercial division on the Fraser Dawbarns’ Management Executive.

Career

Daniel qualified as a solicitor in 2007 at Frasers, a Fraser Dawbarns’ legacy firm. He had previously obtained a Business and Law Degree at Kingston University and then taken his Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in York. His degree provided him with a solid grounding in business management in addition to the necessary understanding of the law.

Since qualifying, Daniel has developed his specialism in agricultural law with a specific interest in renewable energy projects.

Expertise

Daniel’s wide range of agriculture, rural enterprise and renewable energy experience includes being able to assist with:

• The purchase and sale of agricultural land
• The purchase and sale of large-scale farms and acting for lenders in connection with these farm transactions
• Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy work, including advising on succession on death and retirement and notices to quit
• Assisting farmers taking on a farm business tenancy including the preparation, negotiation and agreement of the tenancy
• Farm diversification and renewable energy projects including solar projects; battery sites; onshore wind developments and other large sale energy developments; power purchase agreements and wayleave agreements and other agreements associated with energy projects
• Farming partnership and succession matters
• Overage agreements.

Personal Interests

Outside of work, Daniel spends time with his young family. He’s a keen sportsman and completed his first half marathon in 2024. When not running or training in the gym he enjoys a round of golf although nowadays he spends more time at the driving range with his son than on the golf course.

When not keeping active, Daniel’s passions are in the home, either in the kitchen cooking for his wife or painting his expanding Warhammer collection.

Daniel is also a trustee of the Leverington Feoffees, a charity in the parishes of Leverington and Gorefield providing charitable donations to local residents. The charity has an agricultural focus with a substantial land holding.