Our agribusiness team has experience in:

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• Acquisitions and sales of rural properties and businesses, including completing due diligence on transactions and advising on the structuring of purchasing entities

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• Sales of water licenses, water allocations, livestock and other rural business assets

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• Advising on the revenue implications of rural commercial transactions, including stamp duty, land tax, GST and land valuation issues

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• Advising and assisting with all types of land and resource agreements including grazing and farming leases, license agreements (such as agistment agreements), and share farming agreements

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• Advising on agribusiness funding arrangements

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• Establishment of structures such as companies, family trusts, partnerships etc. for participants within the industry, together with the drafting of governing documents such as shareholder and partnership agreements, joint venture and development agreements, horticulture produce agreements and general management and consultancy agreements

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• All aspects of planning, development and environmental law, including advising and prosecuting claims for compensation for mining and gas activities, and statutory resumptions

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• Complex estate planning for agricultural family businesses and intergenerational farm transfers

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• Assisting with farm debt mediation

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• Dispute resolution and commercial litigation particularly including insolvency and debt recovery

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• Advising on compliance with competition and consumer law, and industry-specific codes and rules such as the Dairy Code of Conduct, Horticulture Code of Conduct and the Grain Trade Australia Trade Rules