Business Services

BB&K's agriculture attorneys are leaders in representing a wide variety of production, packing, and processing operations in the rice, citrus, grape, fruit, vegetable, and livestock ranch industries.

Agribusiness Mergers, Acquisitions, Asset Purchases and Sales, Real Estate

• Construction, insurance, development, permit and operations contracts and litigation.
• Property management, acquisitions/ dispositions, equipment contracts, agricultural leases, grazing/hunting/range management licenses, due diligence, road and utility easements.
• Williamson Act, land use, zoning, liquor license transfer and filings, Proposition 65 warnings and indemnification.
• Bankruptcy, collections, dispute resolution, producer liens.
• Perishable Agricultural Commodity Act (PACA) compliance and market enforcement compliance/defense.
• Equine law, livestock legal issues and public lands issues.
• Cellular tower, wind and solar leases.

Conservation Easements

• Conservation easements/land trusts formation and accreditation.
• Rangeland conservation, management plans and sustainable operations.
• Environmental species management plans.
• Mitigation bank creation; mitigation agreements and purchases.

Entity Formation, Structuring and Corporate Governance

• Financial and operating needs, including business organization and structure, agriculture lending (fixed asset based, receivables, real estate, crop loans, lines of credit, etc.), capital raising through public and private equity and debt, compliance with securities laws, and real estate transactions.
• Licensing, commodity and forward contracting, specialized financing and lending programs.
• Strategic planning and formation issues and succession planning.
• Wealth and estate planning

Government Relations

• National and statewide lobbying.

Labor and Employment

• Wage and hour violations, immigration law compliance, discrimination and wrongful termination, and human trafficking compliance warnings.
• Sexual harassment training compliance.

Natural Resources & Sustainable Operations

• Agricultural transaction and operation contracts such as products liability, food safety, distribution, environment and intellectual property.
• Assisting with negotiation and preparation of development agreements with local government entities and of air, water and other permits for proposed facilities; general plan updates/sphere of influence; handling state/local environmental and land use permit and zoning issues; and securing favorable environmental review of project facilities.
• Water rights and water quality law, Clean Water Act, Porter-Cologne, , etc.
• Wastewater compliance permits, NPDES compliance, etc.
• Solar/wind leases, solar/wind power purchase, installation and operation agreements.

Regulatory Compliance / Intellectual Property and Trade Regulation

• License agreements, technology development agreements, intellectual property issues including confidentiality agreements.
• Antitrust and trade regulation issues.