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With decades of experience advising Australian agribusinesses, Addisons offers clear, practical and actionable advice, providing confidence to clients navigating a disrupted and ever-changing industry.
Along with operational issues common to all businesses, agribusinesses must respond to the challenges of the industry.
Global demand for protein-rich food continues to increase and food security and national security concerns arise from risks to global supply chains. Our agribusiness clients are adapting to new technologies, changing regulations and social expectations. They need to negotiate supply chain breakdowns and biosecurity challenges. As foreign investment into Australian agribusiness continues at scale, investors and Australian businesses must navigate Australia’s foreign investment approval regime.
Our clients include primary producers, growers’ co-operatives, irrigation corporations, manufacturers, distributors and retailers. They are involved in producing dairy and substitutes, eggs, fruit, livestock, poultry, rice and sugar. They cover every stage of business maturity, from new investors to decades-old companies.
We support our clients at every stage from acquisition, investment, business structuring, operations, joint ventures and other business combinations, expansion and development, to divestment.
advised agricultural private equity investor Duxton Orchards on secured mezzanine and hybrid debt facilities made available to unlisted public company Rivercorp Land & Water to facilitate restructuring and growth.
acted for Fairglen Farms (owned by the Fairfax family) on its strategic aggregation investments in large-scale broiler chicken farms in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia.
advised Macquarie Group’s MIRA group on multiple, large-scale acquisitions and divestments by its agricultural investment funds including its:
- acquisition from Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund of over 100,000ha of pastoral and cropping properties in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia.
- sale to Alberta Investment Management of Lawson Grains Pty Ltd, one of Australia’s leading grain growing businesses, with over 100,000ha of agricultural land across New South Wales and Western Australia.
acted on the $74 million acquisition of ‘Newstead’ and ‘Paradise’ in the New England region, New South Wales.