Global AgInvesting Europe 2018

Nuveen

Nuveen is the investment manager of TIAA, bringing a legacy of service to our responsibility of managing $988 billion in assets as of September 30, 2018. Operating in 34 countries across the globe, Nuveen's 3,300+ professionals serve over 16,000 institutions through award-winning capabilities spanning public and private asset classes.

As like-minded partners with institutional investors, Nuveen offers a distinct investment approach, delivering solutions that help clients solve their challenges and reach their financial goals. Through our dedicated investment teams, clients access best-in-class, specialist investors. With our solutions orientation, clients access advice and multi-asset strategies that leverage our entire investment platform.

As a privately-held firm, Nuveen provides financial stability and focus on successful long-term investment outcomes and, as one of the largest asset managers in the world, we deliver the benefits derived from scale. Our history as a retirement income provider, leadership in alternatives and a pioneer in responsible investing uniquely positions us to contribute meaningful results.

www.nuveen.com

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Paine Schwartz Partners

A global leader in sustainable food chain investing, Paine Schwartz Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on investment opportunities in the fast-growing, dynamic global food and agribusiness sectors. The firm’s investment, operations and finance professionals invest throughout cycles across the food and agribusiness value chain and bring a collaborative and active management approach to portfolio companies. The firm currently invests through its $893 million Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund IV, which is solely dedicated to food and agribusiness investing.

www.paineschwartz.com

Duxton Asset Management

Founded in 2009 following a spin-out from the Deutsche Bank Complex Assets team, Duxton is a leading alternative asset management firm, focusing on specialist investment opportunities for institutional, semi-institutional and high net-worth investors. It concentrates on global agricultural land and securities as well as emerging markets. The net value of assets under Duxton’s management and advice amounts to approx. USD 630m. Approximately USD $400 million of these assets are agricultural investments.

Duxton currently manages and advises investments in farming operations covering 540,000 hectares, spanning 5 continents, managed by highly specialized on the ground senior farmers and supported by over 13,000 farm hands and workers. Duxton has operating investments in Australia, Argentina, India, Tanzania, Vietnam, Zambia, Jamaica and New Zealand, and is currently working on live projects in Asia, Oceania, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Duxton’s experienced agribusiness investment team creates value by partnering with top tier farm managers and senior farmers on the ground and by adopting large-scale production systems to realise economies of scale. Duxton looks to increase enterprise value through creating operational efficiencies, adopting the latest farming technologies, vertical and horizontal integration and forging strong relationships with local end users to develop direct customer relationships.

Duxton employs 27 investment staff members, with offices in Singapore, Australia, and Germany.

www.duxtonam.com

Hancock Agricultural Investment Group

The Hancock Agricultural Investment Group (HAIG) is one of the largest and most established institutional farmland investment managers. Our vertically integrated farmland investment platform stretches across the major agricultural growing regions in Australia, Canada and the U.S. HAIG manages US$3.1 billion of agricultural real estate (as of June 30, 2018) for institutional investors, including public and corporate pension funds and taxable investors. We directly operate and lease nearly 356,000 acres of prime permanent and row cropland. We have the ability to offer investors a number of farmland investment structures to meet their overall portfolio requirements within the farmland asset class.

www.haig.com

Proterra Investment Partners

Proterra Investment Partners is an alternative investment manager focused on private equity investments in the natural resources sectors of agriculture, food, and metals & mining. Proterra manages $2.4 billion in AUM in its three investment strategies. Our fund’s investments reflect fundamental perspectives on the macro- and micro-economic trends driving the markets where we invest. Through an emphasis on strong local relationships and expertise, Proterra seeks to provide unique opportunities for our investors. Proterra launched as a standalone investment advisor for the Black River Asset Management private equity funds on January 1, 2016. The Funds spun out from Black River Asset Management, a wholly-owned, independently managed subsidiary of Cargill.

www.proterrapartners.com

Sunridge Partners

Sunridge Partners (UK) LLP (“Sunridge or Company”) is holding and investment management company that partners with exceptional agriculture and food companies to guide them through rapid yet sustainable growth, to become clear industry leaders.

The company likes to pioneer innovative approaches and technologies to solve many of the headwinds facing modern agriculture.Sunridge always puts environmental, social and governance considerations at the heart of its investments and operations.A highly accomplished team, with decades of agricultural investing, development and operating expertise across the globe, prides itself on providing patient capital, deep industry expertise and a hands-on approach to achieving outsized returns for all stakeholders.

Sunridge focuses on control equity investments, primarily in OECD countries, with a clear path for rapid growth, utilizing its expertise and capital.

www.sunridgepartners.com

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Freshfields is a leader among international law firms, providing business law advice of the highest quality throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. With more than 2,800 lawyers in 27 offices around the world, the firm provides a comprehensive service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments. Over the last five years, we have advised on over $1tn of cross-border deals – more than any other firm in the world.

In the United States, Freshfields provides integrated and proactive legal counsel to clients seeking local or international advice. The firm’s US practice is a key part of its international footprint; it has almost 200 lawyers based in the United States and more than 350 US-qualified lawyers working in its offices around the world. Cross borders with confidence. Cross borders with Freshfields.

www.freshfields.com

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Gunn Agri Partners

Gunn Agri Partners is an independent Australian farmland manager and farm services company. Gunn Agri principals have decades of hands on experience from farm owner, to farm manager and heads of some of Australia’s premier farming businesses, plus global asset and investment management experience.

Gunn Agri currently manages over A$200m of assets and committments across 2.5 million acres of agricultural land. In addition to this Gunn Agri has provided advisory services to another $300m of assets across Australia, Africa and the Americas.

Our core principles are alignment and transparency. Gunn Agri offers tailored solutions with access to direct deals, separately managed accounts and co-mingled fund vehicles in the farmland space.

www.gunnagri.com/

JAMPRO - Trade & Investment Jamaica

Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) is Jamaica's national investment and export promotion agency. JAMPRO represents the gateway which connects the world to Jamaica, enabling entrepreneurs from around the globe to tap into the wealth of trade and investment opportunities available in the country.

The agency was established in 1988 to stimulate, facilitate and promote economic development in key sectors of the island’s economy. The agency drives this process through focus on the creative industries (film, music and entertainment), manufacturing, tourism and services, agri-business, information technology enabled services, manufacturing, energy and mining. Investment and trade promotion are the two focal points of the agency, which also has regional offices in New York, Toronto and London.

To learn more visit www.dobusinessjamaica.com.

Rimonim Agro Fund / Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies

Rimonim Agro is a specialists managed Fund,created to invest in the most compelling early and mid-stage Israeli companies, developing agricultural technologies that address the unmet need of global food shortages.

Investments in Agro Technologies are increasing, yet under funded. Israel offers one of the largest pools of early stage investment opportunities and some of the most advanced global developments in the global AgTech space.

Rimonim is one of Israel’s top experts in investments focusing on agricultural productivity and efficiency. The fund started investing at October 2017, and its current portfolio includes SKYX Solutions (www.skyx.solutions) and Salicrop (www.salicrop.com).

Rimonim Agro is now raising its second investment vehicle, Rimonim II VC.

Roots Sustainable technologies, an Israeli company, was listed on December 2017 on the ASX Australia, symbol ROO.

The company main technologies are root zone temperature optimization RZTO and irrigation by condensation IBC. RZTO, is comparable to the revolution of drip irrigation, which means targeting the root zone area and not the canopy. RZTO cools and heats the root zone temperatures in one system, to allow Increase of yield quantity and quality and shortening growing cycles using ground source heated with energy savings of up to 80%.

IBC is a standalone, closed loop, solar operated system to irrigate crops by condensing air to allows farming in remote locations which are unsuited to food production due to water shortage.

ROOTS is active in 6 in territories: China, Spain, Australia, USA, South Korea and Israel. The company has already demonstrated successful interim results in the Cannabis indoor and outdoor.

www.rootssat.com.

Preqin

As the world’s leading provider of data to the alternative assets industry, Preqin has the most comprehensive and extensive information available on the private equity & venture capital, hedge fund, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and natural resources industries. Since 2003, Preqin has been providing data and market insights to our clients, helping them to make better-informed business decisions and to perform with greater efficiency. Preqin’s services include award-winning online databases, as well as industry-leading research and analysis available via our premium publications and complimentary research reports. Our rigorous data collection methods, driven largely by direct contact with industry professionals, mean that we are uniquely placed to provide exclusive, up-to-minute insights, and make us the most trusted source of information in alternatives.

www.preqin.com

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