Agri-business

This area is headed up by Simon Thomas along with a team of agri-business specialists.  The team has extensive experience providing advice to farming and food industry clients.

Our services include:

• Setting up, reviewing and advice on appropriate business structures
• Shareholder, member or partner arrangements
• Business and company sales and acquisitions
• Group reorganisations
• Commercial agreements, including marketing, distribution, supply agreements and terms of trading
• Brand protection and promotion, trade marks and other intellectual property advice
• Competition law

Good business practice and the challenges in all sectors of the food industry mean farmers and processors should regularly monitor their business to maximise opportunities and to protect and increase market share in an ever changing commercial environment. We have seen a growing demand for innovative business and contractual arrangements and there is an increasing emphasis on collaboration across the spectrum of the food chain, from farmers to processors, distributors and retailers.

At Clarke Willmott LLP, our approach is to find practical ways of facilitating this process of collaboration in its many forms which include joint ventures, co-operatives, service companies, collaborative purchasing arrangements, farm restructuring, partnerships, fixed cost sharing, machinery and asset sharing and know how pooling. We have experience of working with our clients to find innovative solutions.

To see examples of recent projects, please see How We've Helped Our Clients. 

Lawyers in the agri-business team work closely with other specialists within the firm, including the Rural Property and Commercial Property teams.

Contact: Simon Thomas

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