Torys LLP, Agribusiness | Chambers Canada Profile

About

Provided by Torys LLP

With comprehensive regulatory and transactional experience, we help agribusiness companies, investors and other players navigate the complex landscape of the sector.

Torys’ Agribusiness team has industry acumen and multidisciplinary perspective to help clients navigate the sector. Our range of experience gives us practical insight into every aspect of our clients’ work, including M&A, food and drink production, plants and plant varieties, fertilizers, land acquisitions and disposals, and more.

We serve agribusiness companies at every stage of maturity—growing, processing and distribution, production, and marketing. Our team works with domestic, cross-border and international players to meet the needs of their business and advise a broad array of direct agribusiness clients, including companies that produce, manufacture and sell livestock feed, seed, crop protection products, food and “novel foods” regulated under the Food and Drugs Act. We also work with clients in emerging industries like cannabis and ag-biotech.

Chambers Review

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Agribusiness: Agriculture & Food Products - Nationwide - Canada

Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Torys is valued for its long-standing experience in the agribusiness space, offering full-service business support to notable industry players. Its Toronto and Calgary-based lawyers often assist with M&A transactions and are noted for their aptitude in agricultural-biotech and agribusiness innovations, providing commercial and specialist regulatory counsel to clients working in plant and animal genetics, novel foods and the emerging cannabis market. The firm also acts for traditional agrifood players including producers of food and crop protection products and livestock feed and seed companies across the supply chain.

Notable practitioners

Eileen McMahon and Janan Paskaran are key contacts for the firm's agribusiness team.

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Work Highlights

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The team from Torys acts for Champion Petfoods, advising on its proposed sale to Mars Petcare.

Strengths

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"Torys have a broad range of knowledge, are responsive and have an extremely broad range of awareness and expertise."

Agribusiness: Agriculture & Food Products respondent
Canada

"Torys have a broad array of knowledge and expertise available to tackle legal issues presented in a timely manner. They have found answers to client problems quickly and efficiently."

Agribusiness: Agriculture & Food Products respondent
Canada

"Torys have a broad range of knowledge, are responsive and have an extremely broad range of awareness and expertise."

Agribusiness: Agriculture & Food Products respondent
Canada

"Torys have a broad array of knowledge and expertise available to tackle legal issues presented in a timely manner. They have found answers to client problems quickly and efficiently."

Agribusiness: Agriculture & Food Products respondent
Canada