Primary industries

In the forestry sector, this includes advising on the sale and purchase of forestry assets and sawmilling and wood processing assets and advising on forestry management agreements, log and timber sales, Crown forestry licences and other cutting rights.

Of note, our outstanding track record of scoping and executing large scale acquisitions and sales of forestry assets in New Zealand means we have been involved in almost every major forestry transaction which has occurred in New Zealand in the last two decades.

Goodman Fielder
Advised Goodman Fielder on the acquisition of the assets related to the manufacture and distribution of ‘Yoplait’ branded yoghurt in New Zealand from Lion Dairy.

Mitsui
Advised Mitsui on the sale of substantially all of its interest in Synlait Milk to The a2 Milk Company for NZ$162 million.

China Animal Husbandry Group
Advised on a majority investment in Mataura Valley Milk.

Dairy Farms New Zealand Ltd
Advised Dairy Farms New Zealand Ltd on its acquisition of seven dairy farms.

Danone
Advised on its acquisition of NZ milk formula processing and packing factories from Sutton Group and Gardians, including ‘sensitive land’ consent.

Forestry

Nelson Properties
Advised on the sale of 100% of the shares in Nelson Forests to Australian forestry company OneFortyOne Plantations Holdings.

Summit Forests (owned by Sumitomo Corporation)
Advised on its purchase of a number of forests (including OIO consent requirements) over the last few years, and on its day-to-day forestry portfolio issues.

Tuhoe
Advised Tuhoe on its acquisition of Te Manawa O Tuhoe Forest.

Wool

Cavalier Wool Holdings
Advised Cavalier Wool Holdings on its successful formal authorisation application to acquire wool scouring and wool grease assets, and successfully defended a subsequent appeal against the authorisation.