Agriculture

Today’s food and agriculture industry is broad and continues to expand. What once was a business segment based exclusively on producing and transporting crops and livestock, now encompasses input manufacturing, food processing and retail services, distribution and logistics, and specialty crop and hardwood production, among others. The industry is also rapidly adopting breakthrough innovations in the form of biotechnology, information and satellite technology, and alternative energy production. This evolution of agriculture and production increasingly takes place in the global marketplace.

Our agribusiness services are uniquely poised to meet this growing need and help our clients capture new business opportunities as they emerge.

Ice Miller is committed to assisting agribusiness companies navigate the changes in the agribusiness market as they relate to legal issues associated with production shifts, technology adoption and intellectual property protection, complex financial transactions, trade laws and requirements, and new or emerging policy shifts both in the U.S. and abroad and has built a comprehensive practice initiative to do just that. The group includes sixteen attorneys and industry specialists making it one of the country's most committed practices to the agribusiness community.

Ice Miller will provide myriad of services specifically tailored to the food and agribusiness industry including: labor and employment, immigration, employee benefits, intellectual property, environmental and real estate management, transactional and investment related services, litigation/risk management, regulatory, public affairs and lobbying and estate planning.

Our team works with you to accomplish your business objectives.