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  • Agribusiness

    From major acquisitions to cross border financings to food security issues, if the stakes are high, you can rely on King & Wood Mallesons for commercial and innovative legal solutions, tailored to your strategic priorities and approach to doing business.

    ​Our experience, coupled with the strength of our relationships with regulators, enables us to help you adapt to and comply with major market changes. As a full service firm, we have experience across all aspects of the agribusiness sector, including: mergers & acquisitions, investment structures, foreign investment approval, property ownership issues, commodities trading, intellectual property, competition and tax.
 

 Our recent experience:

 
  • Client: Glencore
    Acting for long-time client Glencore International on its strategic acquisition of Canadian based grain handler Viterra for $C6.1 billion (approximately A$5.9 billion). Under the deal, Glencore acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Viterra for C$16.25 a share through a scheme of arrangement fully funded by Glencore’s existing cash resources and available credit facilities.
  • Client: Insight
    Acting as Australian tax and legal counsel for Insight on the establishment of Insight Global Farmland Fund Limited which provides investors with global exposure to farmland, farmland businesses and the agricultural commodities grown on those farms. We also advised on the company’s first investment in Australia involving the acquisition of a large livestock property.
  • Client: HRZ Wheats Pty Ltd
    Advising on the continued investment in the creation of unique germplasm targeting the high rainfall zone of Australia, following an equity investment into the company by Dow AgroSciences Australia Ltd.
  • Client: Paine & Partners
    Advising on their investment in the Costa Group, Australia's largest private producer, marketer and exporter of fresh fruit, vegetables and grains.
  • Client: Chinese company
    Advising on the acquisition of a farm in NSW.
  • Client: Viterra
    Advising in relation to Productivity Commission hearings concerning wheat export regulatory arrangements and regulatory issues raised by Wheat Exports Australia.
  • Client: CHAMP Private Equity
    Advising on the sale of United Malt Holdings (UMH) to GrainCorp Limited for US$655m.
  • Client: Maryborough Sugar Factory
    Advising on strategic transactions, including joint ventures, takeovers and institutional placements and share purchase plans.
  • Client: Namoi Cotton Co-operative Limited
    Advising on its IPO, general commercial advice and a number of Occupational Health & Safety Act related matters.
  • Client: Deutsche Asset Management
    Advising on the development of a Global Agribusiness Fund which sought investments in all parts of the food production-to-consumption value chain.
  • Client: CSIRO
    Advising on global licences of plant breeders rights (PBRs) and on their general strategic management of PBRs.
  • Client: Australian Agricultural Company
    Advising on an underwritten institutional placement and share purchase plan.

  • Scott Bouvier
    Consumer, Retail & Agribusiness Sub-Sector Leader
    Partner
    Sydney
    T: +61 2 9296 2472
    M: +61 407 894 528