Gain a multidisciplinary understanding of rural transactions. Consolidate your due diligence skills and drafting of key agreements in rural transactions. Evaluate environmental factors impacting your rural deals with carbon credits and climate concerns. Decipher employment considerations influencing rural employment relationships and walk away with an understanding of how to best help your clients through their rural transactions.
3.00pm to 4.00pm Environmental Considerations in Rural Transactions
- Carbon credit registration and regime: the impact on sale and purchase (what to look for, how to exit the regime)
- Climate change and the structure around that
- ETS changes, He Waka Eke Noa & how this may impact on a rural settlement
- New RMA amendments and implications on rural property transactions
- Winter grazing and the NES
- Biodiversity proposals from the government
Presented by Andrew Thomas, Partner, Treadwell Gordon
4.15pm to 5.15pm Employment Considerations for Rural Property Employees
- Healthy home standards
- Interface between tenancy provisions and employment provisions, particularly when employment on a farm ends
- Ensuring Health and Safety translates from policy to practice
- Implications and WorkSafe requirements & regulation
- Refresher on the 90-day trial
- Refresher on key procedural matters, particularly around redundancy
Presented by Kirsten Maclean, Director, D’Arcy Thomson Law
Chair:
Mark Dineen, Partner, Anthony Harper
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD hours
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Break
2.00pm to 3.00pm Due Diligence & Key Agreements in Farming Transactions
- Understanding rural land and farming operations
- Vendor perspectives
- Purchaser perspectives
- Leasing arrangements
- Desktop due diligence investigations
- Livestock sale, security, and leasing arrangements
- Clauses for further terms in key rural agreements:
- Why and when to use them
- Sale and purchase of complex rural property
- Leasing of rural property
- Livestock in sale and purchase, and leasing agreements
- Drafting and putting together agreements for transactions
Presented by Heather Neeson, Senior Associate, and Sarah Baxter, Senior Associate, RMF Silva
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate due diligence and key considerations in agreements for farming transactions
- Explore many of the environmental considerations that impact rural transactions
- Assess healthy home stands, tenancy provision and the wider employment law space influencing rural property employees
Presenters
Mr. Andrew Thomas, Partner, Treadwell Gordon
Andrew joined Treadwell Gordon in August 2017 and leads the Taihape office. Originally from rural Canterbury, Andrew lives on his wife’s family farm near Mataroa where he works both on the farm and in the office. Andrew has considerable experience in London and Auckland where he focused on large scale property developments, overseas investment office applications and leasing portfolio management. He brings expert knowledge of land law and a wide breadth of general experience in commercial law and personal planning matters including farm succession and trust work. Andrew is a member of the Army Reserve and has operational experience in the Solomon Islands, Israel, Syria and Lebanon. This experience empowers Andrew with the skills that he brings to his client dealings today – dedication, commitment and partnership. While his young family keeps him busy these days, he does like to find time for hunting, trailing running and tramping in the Central Plateau area.
Mark Dineen, Partner, Anthony Harper
Mark brings a unique blend of legal expertise in agribusinesses of all sizes, and an approach grounded in sixteen years experience as a stock agent. Admitted to the bar in 2004, Mark’s is a pragmatic, collaborative and flexible style honed over years of coming to know the sector and its people. His passion for agribusiness, insights into what goes on behind the farm gate and ongoing connections within the sector mean his clients get advice that is grounded in the real world. He understands the issues that those in agribusiness grapple with every day – as well as the many opportunities on offer.
Ms. Heather Neeson, Senior Associate, RMF Silva
Hailing from a Mid-Canterbury sheep, beef, and dairy grazing farm, Heather has focused her legal expertise on the needs of rural communities. A graduate from the University of Canterbury with Law and Arts (honours) degrees, Heather has been practising law since 2013. She has also worked in London in a banking investigation role. Heather specialises in agribusiness, property, succession and trusts, financial and personal law. She particularly enjoys working together with her clients to achieve their goals, as seamlessly as possible. Outside of work, Heather enjoys spending time with family and friends, and taming the wilderness of her garden with her partner Rob.
Ms. Sarah Baxter, Senior Associate, RMF Silva
Sarah grew up on a farm in Mid Canterbury, and continues to live rurally. Attending University of Canterbury and completing a Law and Commerce degree in 2016. Sarah has worked in Ashburton for the past six years, and joined RMF Silva in September 2019. Sarah works across a range of areas, specialising in agribusiness, property, conveyancing, wills, trusts and powers of attorney. Outside of work Sarah enjoys spending time with friends and family, and playing sports such as squash and netball.
Ms. Kirsten Maclean, Director, D’Arcy Thomson Law
Kirsten studied at Otago University and graduated with a double degree in law and history. Kirsten is a Director/owner of D'Arcy Thomson Law and assist her clients in her specialist areas of dispute resolution, relationship property, and employment law. A litigator with over 20 years’ experience in all forms of dispute resolution both here and in England, Kirsten is also a qualified and admitted solicitor on the UK Solicitors’ roll. Kirsten has appeared at all levels of courts in the civil and employment jurisdiction, including the Court of Appeal in New Zealand and junioring in the House of Lords in the UK. Her significant expertise enables her to offer support to the D'Arcy Thomson team and our clients in all aspects of health and safety, to assisting in the prevention and resolution of employment-related issues for both employers and employees, relationship property matters and complex commercial, civil and trust litigation and disputes.
