Global AgInvesting Europe

Hancock Natural Resource Group

Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) is one of the world’s largest natural resource managers for institutional investors, managing a diverse global portfolio of farms and forests located in Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the United States, totaling US$14.0 billion total assets under management as of June 30, 2019. HNRG conducts business through two divisions, Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG) and Hancock Agricultural Investment Group (HAIG), and HNRG’s investments are integrated with comprehensive property management operations in each country through subsidiaries, affiliate companies, or investor owned entities. These include agricultural entities, Hancock Farmland Services (HFS) and Farmland Management Services (FMS), along with additional timberland and global agricultural focused entities. HNRG is a registered investment adviser, a wholly owned subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation and a part of Manulife Investment Management’s private markets platform.

hancocknaturalresourcegroup.com

Nuveen

Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA, is one of the largest investment managers in the world with $1 trillion in assets under management*.

Managing a broad array of assets across diverse asset classes, geographies, and investment styles, we provide investors access to a wide range of liquid and illiquid alternative strategies such as real estate, real assets (farmland, timberland, infrastructure), private equity and debt, in addition to both traditional and fixed income assets.

We offer agriculture strategies through our investment specialists AGR Partners and Westchester. AGR Partners provides growth capital to leading middle market agribusinesses and food companies. Westchester has more than 30 years of experience in acquiring, managing and marketing agricultural real estate assets around the world, and is the largest manager of farmland assets globally**.

For further information, visit nuveen.com.

*As of 30 Jun 2019.
**Source: Pensions & Investments, 30 Sept 2019. Rankings based on institutional tax-exempt assets under management as of 30 Jun 2019 reported by each responding asset manager.

@NuveenInv

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.

www.paineschwartz.com

8F Asset Management

8F Asset Management Pte. Ltd. manages private equity funds that invest in vertically integrated aquaculture production and processing facilities, using land-based sustainable Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) technology, creating material positive social and environmental impact.

8f-am.com

Biotalys

Biotalys is a rapidly growing and transformative food and crop protection company developing a new generation of protein-based biocontrol solutions, shaping the future of sustainable and safe food supply. Based on its groundbreaking technology platform, Biotalys has developed a broad pipeline of effective and safe products that address key crop pests and diseases across the whole value chain, from soil to plate. Combining the high-performance characteristics and consistency of chemicals with the clean safety profile of biologicals, Biotalys provides ideal crop protection agents for both pre- and post-harvest applications. Biotalys’ lead biofungicide, BioFun-1, has demonstrated consistent, high efficacy against major pests, such as Botrytis cinerea and powdery mildew, in a global fruit and vegetables field trial. The Company is on track to submit the registration dossiers later in 2020 and expects to launch BioFun-1 in the U.S. in 2022, followed by global market introductions. Biotalys was founded in 2013 as a spin-off from the VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and has raised €61 million ($66M USD) to date from specialist international investors. The Company is based in the biotech cluster in Ghent, Belgium and the Research Triangle in North Carolina, U.S. More information can be found on www.biotalys.com.

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Laguna Bay

Laguna Bay is an experienced agricultural fund manager with around AUD700m under management in a range of agricultural sectors and operating strategies.

With a demonstrated ability to successfully originate, execute and manage large scale, investment-grade agricultural assets.

Laguna Bay's new diversified fund is seeded with over AUD300m of committed institutional capital and a significant amount of this fund has already been deployed and is operational.

www.lagunabay.com.au

Morrison Foerster

We are Morrison & Foerster. We are MoFo. We are synonymous with a commitment to client service and advisors to market-changing deals and impact litigation.

Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. We represent investment funds and startup companies, and over the years have supported their growth and development as leading industry players and household brands.

www.mofo.com

Pollination Group

Pollination is a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm, accelerating the transition to a net zero, climate resilient future.

Our people are the key to unlocking change. Brought together from across industries, we are global leaders in finance, investment, technology, business, law and policy.

We combine our diverse expertise to connect dots and see around corners where others can’t. With strong relationships at the highest levels of government and the private sector, we shift barriers and catalyse transformative partnerships.

Our clients span governments, businesses and public and private capital. Using our broad experience, we help navigate the climate transition, and design and invest in breakthrough ideas that deliver financial returns.

pollinationgroup.com/climateassetmanagement

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 28 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 $1.5+tn of cross-border deals – more than any other firm in the world.

www.freshfields.com

@Freshfields

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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