Kutak Rock LLP is based in 
We represent agricultural enterprises in all aspects of the industry, from multi-million-dollar litigation involving The Packers and Stockyards Act to giant merger transactions and other financial and real estate transactions involving cooperatives, farm corporations and farm partnerships. Our experience is rooted deeply. Some of our attorneys have worked the land with their own hands, while others retain close ties to family farms; all of us take pride in a
Our attorneys have practiced before the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Farm Credit Administration and other state and federal agencies that oversee agriculture. Our agribusiness team includes a former U.S. senator who was a member of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee.
Kutak Rock's experience in serving agriculture clients includes:
- Representing a Fortune 200 agriculture corporation in corporate securities, acquisitions, dispositions and corporate finance
- Defending a Fortune 200 meatpacker in a class-action lawsuit involving The Packers and Stockyards Act, an environmental class-action lawsuit and other major commercial litigation matters
- Advising co-ops and farm credit agencies regarding strategic initiatives, planning and major transactions
- Assisting a Fortune 200 beef producer in a state attorney general investigation of its business practices
- Serving as defense counsel to senior corporate executives in a federal investigation relating to a national recall of allegedly contaminated beef
- Serving as counsel for the acquisition, construction and financing of ethanol plants
- Advising local finance authorities regarding the first-time farmer program
- Representing multiple agribusinesses in claims relating to biogenetically modified corn products
- Serving as issuer's counsel for venture capital transactions totaling more than $100 million for international agricultural business
- Acting as bond counsel in a multi-million-dollar transaction for a large agribusiness and equine center
- Representing farm credit and agricultural lenders and other institutions in various securities, corporate finance and intellectual property (e.g., trademarks and trade names) matters
- Assisting a pre-IPO private start-up company in its effort to patent proprietary technology for treating food products
- Representing large farm and ranch operations and livestock producers in connection with financings, acquisitions and partnership taxation issues
