Agribusiness - M&A

Our group provides mergers and acquisition legal services for agribusinesses. Significant representations include the following:

  • Representing Dairy Farmers of America, a cooperative, in connection with the acquisition of approximately $400 million of dairy assets currently owned by Suiza Foods Corporation and Dean Foods Company in connection with Suiza's acquisition of Dean

  • Structuring a management-led ESOP to acquire 30 percent of a food brokerage concern

  • Advising on the merger of eleven banks in the Farm Credit System, resulting in a new $12 billion bank

  • Negotiating the acquisition of a $150 million German agribusiness manufacturing concern

  • Structuring a buying cooperative for the franchisees of a major fast-food chain

  • Defending numerous substantive merger investigations involving agribusinesses

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Agribusiness Client Services

McDermott Will & Emery

McDermott Will and Emery