Carlos Crowley
Email: crowley@origincapital.com.au
Origin’s experience extends along the agribusiness value chain from primary production, through processing and logistics to export terminals and domestic FMCG.
This provides us with a detailed understanding of the drivers of value and the linkages across the chain.
Origin’s experience in the food & agribusiness sector includes advising on the following:
Sector experience: Food & agribusiness
$500m sale of Australia’s largest beef pastoral company
$116m sale of a 40,000ha aggregation of irrigated cotton/corn agricultural properties and water rights to Webster
$30m equity raising for a 20,000ha integrated grains & malting barley production project
Sale of feedlot & beef marketing business to the Australian Agricultural Company
Sale of speciality milling operations to PB Agrifoods
Sale-leaseback by Australia’s largest table grape producer with an Asian fund
$300m sale of Gardner Smith to GrainCorp
Valuation of 50% interest in ABA for pre-emptive rights purposes
Divestment of 50% interest in Australian Bulk Alliance to Sumitomo
Valuation of assets contributed to establish the Bulk Terminals Australia joint venture
$110m merger with GrainCo Australia
Developed a grain rail project designed to reduce members’ logistic costs
Advised in respect of holding in GrainCorp and funding to exercise 9-for-10 entitlement offer
Establishment of a joint venture with GrainCorp for the purpose of bidding for Integro Foods
A$171m joint acquisition of Integro Foods from Goodman Fielder & long-term supply agreement with Goodman Fielder
Divestment of its distribution business to Fonterra
Acquisition of 50% of the Norco Paul’s Joint Venture from Parmalat
Long term pricing for six bulk sugar terminals
Advice regarding a proposed merger
Takeover defence in response to hostile takeover offers by New Britain Palm Oil & WR Carpenter
Industry restructure with operating and user agreements for bulk sugar terminals
Advised CSR Sugar (Sucrogen) in relation to the rights of Sugar Terminals Limited’s M Class shareholders
Advice regarding a corporate cane farming initiative to secure supply
Outsourcing of supply for Flora margarine & divestment of its non-retail edible oils business to Peerless