Comprehensive Legal Support
Agribusiness and food production present a myriad of complex legal challenges. Our team, recognized with a prestigious Band 1 ranking from Chambers Canada for eight consecutive years, brings together lawyers from various practice areas to address both corporate/commercial and litigation issues faced by our clients.
Tailored Legal Solutions
We offer a wide range of services across Canada, including:
- Marketing boards and commissions
- Livestock, plant, and crop production
- Agriculture lending as well as enforcement and recoveries
- Commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and securities matters
- Litigation support
- Business organization, structuring and development
- Land use planning and environmental issues
- Government liability matters
- Grain law
- Food labeling and safety
- Marketing and transportation
- Intellectual property protection
- Farm succession planning and tax issues
Notable matters
- Successful federal court administrative challenge of CFIA refusal to compensate livestock owners
- Litigation of damage claims resulting from recall of food products.
- Representation of various provincial poultry associations in disputes and negotiations with regulating authorities.
- Advice regarding foreign ownership of agricultural land.
- Transactional and competition advice in the acquisition of significant processing facilities.
- Advisors to micro-breweries in manufacturing, distribution and licensing matters.
- Creation and capitalization of agricultural cooperatives.
- Litigation arising from failure to comply with USDA import standards for food products.
- Estate freeze and succession planning for family farms
- Advice in the creation of farming corporations and holding corporations.
- Representation of boards and commissions across Canada.
- Advice relating to regulatory matters, food safety, labelling/packaging; Import/Export regulations
- Advice regarding warehouse agreements, grower agreements, packing and co-packing agreements, and export and distribution agreements.
- Environmental advice related to growing/processing operations, including environmental charges and water rights
- Advising agricultural clients on labour and employment issues
- Advice on agricultural land generally
Awards & accolades
- Chambers Canada – top ranked Canadian law firm in Agribusiness, 2017 – 2024
