Agribusiness

Expertise

• advising on vertical integration – becoming more than just a bulk commodities exporter by realising the benefits of value adding prior to export
•  risk management – diversifying your interests by geography and commodity, and allocating risks between joint venture partners
• infrastructure development and delivery, operation and maintenance
• finance, mortgages, securities (real estate and personal property), insolvency and debt restructuring
• pastoral and occupancy leasing and share-farming arrangements, and contracting out farm operations
•  documenting partnership, trust and company structures for property ownership and management
• statutory resumptions, mining interests, and compulsory acquisitions including valuation issues
•  land titling including leasehold conversions and easements.

Experience

Our experience in realising this potential in the energy and resources context, coupled with our working knowledge of Australia’s agricultural sector and primary industries, puts us in a unique position to help clients turn that potential into commercial reality.

Recently, we have:

• provided transactional, disposal and titling advice involving national plantation and forestry trusts
• advised on structuring, acquiring and disposals of rural land and assets involving private and proprietary limited companies within the forestry, sugar and cattle industries in Queensland 
• advised private clients in complex financial facilities and rural loan specific agreements, mortgage and personal property securities 
• advised on leasing, licensing, indemnities and option agreements in the support of energy efficiency schemes surrounding solar and wind projects in Queensland 
• negotiated pre-sale issues involving resumption and encroachment of rural land in Queensland
• provided advice on contaminated and environmental rural land issues 
• advised on transactional land transfers of rural family business assets.