Agribusiness & Rural Industries

Australia’s agricultural and primary industries have, over the last 20 years in particular, embraced innovation and grown with a business focus.  With that growth, matters once resolved via a handshake are now exposed to legal complexities often requiring sophisticated documentation.

Our Agribusiness & Rural Industries group delivers expertise and a working knowledge of the agricultural and primary industry sectors of our economy.  We provide a commercial approach to compliment our accuracy in the documentation of arrangements that are often sensitive or require input or consent from Government authorities and regulators.

What we do:

• primary industry infrastructure development and delivery, including construction and facilities management contracts
• finance, crop liens/mortgages, securities (real estate and personal property), insolvency and debt restructuring 
• pastoral and occupancy leases and share-farming arrangements, contracting out farm operations
• documenting partnership, trust and company structures for property ownership and management
• statutory resumptions, mining interests, compulsory acquisitions including valuation issues
• land titling issues including leasehold conversions, easements
• advice and transactions involving water rights, water access and irrigations, bores and surface area licences
• sales and acquisitions and planning and environmental advice
• FIRB (foreign investment review board) applications and advice
• conservation and bio-diversity issues
• prospectus and capital raising
• intellectual property protection, information technology issues
• O H & S (occupational health & safety), employment contracts, workplace safety
• dispute resolution
• cultural, heritage and Native Title issues 
• estate planning, succession issues, intergenerational farm transfers

Our interest in agriculture:

Holding Redlich is one of only a few Australian law firms with a dedicated team that understands the important role that agribusiness plays in our economy.  That dedicated team follows, with genuine interest, trends in the production of agricultural commodities and issues facing farmers.