Agribusiness and Biotechnology

The Agribusiness and Biotechnology practice at KLA brings together a multidisciplinary team with solid expertise in Agrarian, Land, Real Estate, Environmental, Regulatory, Tax, Corporate, Capital Markets, and Carbon Markets Law.

With a strategic vision, the team supports companies across the entire agribusiness and biotechnology production chain — from structuring to operations — expanding opportunities in sectors that are fundamental to Brazil’s GDP and national economy.

Our partners and attorneys provide specialized and comprehensive legal advisory services, including drafting and reviewing contracts, land regularization, legal audits, regulatory consulting, representation in administrative and judicial disputes, and structuring operational agreements — always with a focus on legal certainty and value creation for businesses.

SERVICES

Structures

Commercial operations, barter, joint ventures, and formalization of operational agreements
Negotiation of contracts in agribusiness value chains
Structuring of multinational companies in Brazil

Land Regularization

Compulsory Adjudication
Extrajudicial Adverse Possession
Land Area and Registry Rectification
Land Regularization

Typical Rural Contracts

Lease Agreement
Rural Partnership Agreement
Integration Agreement

Contracts

Purchase contracts for agricultural products, according to the specifics of each sector
Collateral and real rights: mortgages, fiduciary sale of real estate
Sale & Leaseback, Surface Rights: Usufruct

Regulatory

Administrative and judicial practice related to inspections, notices of violation, sanctions, and the regularization and licensing of properties and activities before regulatory and environmental authorities
Practice before internal affairs offices and higher courts
Practice for cadastral regularization and compliance with legal obligations before INCRA, CVM, Land Institutes, Federal Revenue Service, and other agencies
Strategic legal advisory in environmental and sanitary licensing of industrial plants, warehouses, distribution centers, and regulated production chains
Regulatory advisory in agricultural pesticides, fertilizers, bio-inputs, inoculants, and other regulated products

Audits

Legal audits aimed at diagnostic analysis of asset qualification, identification of irregularities, and impediments to project implementation
Audits for structuring carbon projects, management of agricultural land, Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), and avoided grassland conversion