Agribusiness and Biotechnology

KLA’s Agribusiness and Biotechnology practice brings together a multidisciplinary team with solid experience in Agrarian, Land, Real Estate, Environmental, Tax, Corporate, Capital Markets, and Carbon Markets law.

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

Our partners and lawyers provide comprehensive legal counsel, including drafting and review of contracts, land regularization, legal audits, regulatory consulting, and the structuring of operational agreements — always with a focus on legal certainty and generating value for our clients’ 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 actions for regularization and licensing of properties and activities
Actions before internal affairs offices and higher courts
Support for cadastral regularization and compliance with legal obligations before INCRA, CVM, Land Institutes, Federal Revenue Service, among others

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