agribusiness

The agribusiness team at gadens melbourne has a wealth of experience in the agribusiness and soft commodities sectors including dairy, wine, grain beef, wool, forestry, agribusiness products, technology and services, food nutraceuticals and aquaculture.

Members of our team also have related expertise working with private and public participants in the water industry as it applies to agribusiness, including advising on trading water rights, floodplain and catchment management, land access, management of reserves, acquisition of land, constraints on development, water licence obligations and customer contracts.

Our team members have a proven track record advising many major agribusinesses, on a domestic and cross border basis, including Tassal Group, Midway, China Cattle, Murray Goulburn, Select Harvests, Bonlac, Marathon Foods, and Dromana Estate. Our team also represents farming family interests as well as agricultural service and supply businesses.

areas of expertise

prospectus and capital raising; land holding and water issues; technology protection; wood chipping and purchase agreements; harvesting and log supply agreements; joint ventures – domestic / international; government and regulation; native title; tax planning; acquisitions and mergers in the sector; corporate restructuring; product liability; licensing agreements; management agreements; co-operatives; property / land use issues; environment issues; transportation / logistics

industry experience

• acting on a variety of matters for wine makers, from distribution agreements, grape purchase agreements, contract wine making and grape growing joint ventures as well as general corporate work;
• acting for Dromana Estate Limited in relation to its listing on the ASX and London's Alternative Investment Market, as well as ongoing general advices;
• representing Murray Goulburn on major corporate and commercial transactions (including schemes of arrangements, capital raisings, acquisitions and equity and prospectus issues);
• acting for Irymple Group (now SdS Group) and IPPL (a large pig operation) providing general advice on regulatory and contract issues, and corporate and business law advice;
• acting on corporate acquisition matters and providing general advice for Tassal Group (Salmon and Trout); and
• representing foreign investors in meat processing and downstream processing of agribusiness products.