WHAT WE DO REALLY WELL

Agribusiness & Rural

Regional Business Lawyers provide specialist advice to farming families, corporate agribusinesses and institutional funds, and have developed a strong reputation in this sector.  Our lawyers have worked within some of the international family and corporate landowners in Australia as well as their own family farm businesses. 

Our Expertise

Property:

  • Purchase and sale of rural properties

  • Rural leases

  • Horticultural leases

  • Drafting of farm management agreements

  • Advice on solar and wind farm leases

Structuring and finance:

  • Joint purchase agreements

  • Structuring of family and corporate businesses

  • Advising on financing arrangements for rural business

  • Structuring equity investments in rural land

  • Preparation of loan and finance documentation

Environment, regulation, and compliance:

  • Land tenures and tenure conversion

  • Environmental law as it pertains to the agriculture sector

  • Native vegetation

  • Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) applications, exemption certificates, and on-going FIRB compliance

  • Biodiversity credits

Our Experience

Our recent agribusiness experience:

  • $40+ million sale of complex irrigation farm on the Lachlan River

  • $45 million purchase of cattle and mixed farming property

  • Sale of sheep stud on a walk in walk out basis

  • Solving complicated title dealings

  • Managing the purchase of portfolios of rural assets from public listed companies and private equity investors

  • Farm leases including complex irrigation leases, share farming agreements and agreements that are a hybrid of leases and share farm agreements

  • Provided advice on the application of Native Vegetation laws and the impact of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999) (Cth) for major land development