Food and Agribusiness

As a firm founded on the land to support farmers and graziers, we truly understand food and agribusiness from every angle

With expertise in corporate M&A and funds management, tax and restructuring, family business restructuring and succession planning, rural property transactions, environment and water issues, work health and safety, commercial contracts, intellectual property including food labelling, litigation and class actions, and insurance, our Food and Agribusiness team is ideally placed to provide end-to-end support.

Our experience spans the food and agribusiness life cycle from supply chain management through to structuring, production, and export, focussing on sub-sectors from primary producers to processors and distributors of beef, pork, poultry, eggs, sugar, wool, cotton, horticulture, and aquaculture.

Inbound investment into food and agribusiness

Not only do we support Australian organisations seeking international investment but we also advise international investors on their strategic investments into Australia, allowing them to expand and strengthen their operations.

Future focused food and agribusiness

In an increasingly global market, we’re focused on the future and on helping our clients to anticipate the impact of the next challenge or opportunity, whether it’s caused by forces of nature, market fluctuations or government policy, or technological innovation through agtech. With specialist lawyers across divestments and acquisitions to regulatory approvals and compliance — we can assist you at any stage of your business’ growth.

Lawyers who are with you on the ground

Since 1926, we’ve prioritised getting out on the land to connect with our clients.

More than just providing advice from a distance, we believe in building genuine, long-term, on-the-ground connections. This helps us to maintain a deep understanding of the food and agribusiness industry, enabling us to deliver advice that works within the local context, considers practical realities and is grounded in your day-to-day operations.

QIC

Acting for QIC in its agreement to acquire an 80 percent interest in North Australian Pastoral Company, a vertically integrated beef business comprising 8.5 million hectares across Queensland and the Northern Territory and approximately 178,000 head of cattle.

Consolidated Pastoral Company

Managing every aspect of a complicated transaction for Carlton Hill Station in Western Australia involving overseas investors, Ministerial Consent, International Board Approvals, Foreign Investment Review Board Approvals and Chinese government approval.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Advising on the acquisition of Constellation Brands, which involved the acquisition of vineyards and distribution rights in South Australia.

Camm Agricultural Group

Acting for Camm Agricultural Group in its sale and leaseback of three cattle properties in Northern Queensland to Rural Funds Management for $72.5 million.

Isola Capital

Advising Isola Capital, a Hong Kong based multifamily private equity business, on numerous acquisitions of key industry permanent crop assets, with a particular focus on apple and citrus fruit farms in Queensland and New South Wales.