With the widest on the ground coverage of any Queensland law firm, MacDonnells Law is based in centres with high levels of investment in primary industries: Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville. MacDonnells Law can offer expert advice from Queensland’s northern most point, west to Normanton and Karumba and extending to the south east corner.
MacDonnells Law’s experienced agribusiness lawyers (solicitors) provide legal services to those in the rural sector, from fruit plantations to large cattle stations and have had a long and close association with the sugar industry at both grower and mill level. MacDonnells Law also provides legal advice to fishing and trawling operators.
MacDonnells Law agribusiness lawyers have built up a niche practice, advising primary producers in relation to all aspects of property, commercial and private legal matters and have years of experience in:
- sales and acquisitions of plant equipment
- property transactions
- farming leases
- advice on and preparation of all types of trusts and family re-arrangements and corporate structuring
- cultivation and partnership agreements
- share farming arrangements
- implications of taxation, stamp duty, GST and capital gains tax
- estate and business succession planning
- compensation for statutory resumptions and mining tenements
- negotiation of family business issues
- pre-marital financial agreements
- company securities / liens on shares
- joint venture agreements
- estate administration
Fishing & marine
- licensing
- submissions to authorities and Government departments
- applications to appeal authorities
- share fishing agreements
- buying or selling boats and ships
- taxation and stamp duty advice
- salvage and towage claims
- fisheries prosecutions
- conducting appeals in the Queensland Fisheries Tribunal
- marine insurance.
MacDonnells Law understands primary producers. Our agri-business lawyers focus on providing efficient and hassle free legal service.
Some of the MacDonnells Law Agribusiness team’s substantial achievements include:
- representing a consortium of entities to successfully acquire the largest cattle and grazing company in the world at the time - Stanbroke Pastoral Company. This included all facets of the acquisition such as due diligence enquiries and corporate structuring.
- representing a National shipping and transport company in relation to sale agreements, vessel arrangements, charter boat agreements and other commercial matters.
- representing Georgina Pastoral Company in the landmark acquistion of the Colonial Agricultural Company from the conceptual stage onwards. Our involvement included negotiations with the vendor and financiers, property and corporate due diligence and subsequent corporate restructuring. This represented the second largest land transaction in Australia’s history.
