Farm and Agribusiness Purchase and Sale Transactions: Key Legal Issues for Buyers and Sellers
Identifying Threshold Considerations, Negotiating the Purchase and Sale Agreement, Conducting Due Diligence
A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE course will discuss the critical legal issues in purchasing and selling a farm or other agribusiness. The program will focus on critical due diligence issues, threshold considerations for the parties, and essential terms and provisions in the purchase and sale agreement in any farming operation or agribusiness transaction.
Outline
- Identifying threshold considerations
- Negotiating and drafting the purchase and sale agreement
- Key due diligence issues
- Real property
- Personal property
- IP
- Production history
- Contracts, permits, licenses
- Regulatory compliance
- Case studies
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The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What considerations arise when the seller intends to retain certain operations?
- What are best practices for conducting a physical inspection of the property?
- How does one resolve issues with deed restrictions, covenants, easements, and encroachments?
- What are the requirements for adequate environmental due diligence?
- How can buyers confirm the protection of their water and mineral rights?
- What are the critical land use issues?
- What key factors impact the functionality and profitability of the agribusiness?
- Will the seller continue certain operations in a way that could compete with the buyer's business that the buyer may want to address by negotiating a noncompete agreement?
- What are the most common financial issues that can arise during the due diligence phase?
- How will the parties exchange information during the negotiation and due diligence period?
Faculty

Christopher Criglow
Partner
Stoel Rives
Mr. Criglow focuses his practice on real estate and business transactions and counseling in the industries of real... | Read More
Mr. Criglow focuses his practice on real estate and business transactions and counseling in the industries of real estate development and investment, agribusiness, and timberlands/forest products, including leasing, purchases, sales, financing and related general commercial contracts.
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Kari L. Larson
Partner
K&L Gates
Ms. Larson’s practice focuses on commercial real estate including the acquisition, disposition, leasing,... | Read More
Ms. Larson’s practice focuses on commercial real estate including the acquisition, disposition, leasing, financing, and development of commercial, timber, and food and agribusiness holdings, including controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facilities. She regularly represents both borrowers and lenders (foreign and domestic) in lending transactions secured by commercial and agricultural properties, including the negotiation of intercreditor and co-lender arrangements. Ms. Larson also regularly advises clients on investments in various food and agribusiness assets. She regularly advises on jurisdictionally-specific permitting, licensing, certification, and product-specific requirements for producers, processors and retailers of food, including those applicable to CEA facilities. Ms. Larson also counsels clients on filing requirements for foreign investors under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act and analogous state statutes.
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You may pre-order a recording to listen at your convenience. Recordings are available 48 hours after the webinar. Strafford will process CLE credit for one person on each recording. All formats include course handouts.