Cooney Lees Morgan


Helping you make better decisions in the kiwifruit sector

At Cooney Lees Morgan, we know the business of kiwifruit. Our experience - providing commercial advice to a wide range of growers, to post harvest operators and to ZESPRI - is unrivalled. It equips us to help you with every aspect of buying, leasing, running and ultimately exiting your kiwifruit orchard business. We can help with ownership structures, financing, contracting, ZESPRI and post harvest shares, ZESPRI® GOLD and other new cultivar licences, resource consents and more besides.

While you focus on growing kiwifruit, we’ll help with growing your kiwifruit business.

Buying, selling or leasing a kiwifruit orchard

  • Sale and Purchase Agreements
  • Deeds of Lease
  • Setting up or unwinding ownership structures (partnerships, companies, trusts, etc)
  • Allocation of crop proceeds and loyalty rebates
  • Subdivision
  • Resource consents and water rights
  • Applications under the Overseas Investment Act
  • ZESPRI Group Limited and Post Harvest share transfers
  • ZESPRI® GOLD and other new cultivar licence transfers
  • New cultivar and other research trials and licences
  • KPIN registration and/or transfer
  • Spray diary and GlobalGAP compliance
  • Contracting with Post Harvest Entities
  • Employee and contractor issues
  • Financing arrangements
  • Transaction-related taxation issues
  • Insurance

For ongoing kiwifruit orchard businesses

  • Restructuring (partnerships, companies, trusts, etc)
  • Leasing arrangements
  • Subdivisions
  • Contracting with Post Harvest Entities
  • Employee and contractor issues
  • Financing arrangements
  • Insurance
  • Resource consents for further development
  • New cultivar and other research trials and licences
  • Disputes between business partners