Laguna Bay

Laguna Bay is a full service fund management and direct investment platform specialising in the Australian Food and Agriculture sector. Our team has a strong history of originating large-scale food and agricultural deals, accessing top decile operators and generating superior cash returns for institutional investment. The Laguna Bay Investment Team brings both the ability to source attractive Australian opportunities through their personal and corporate networks, and the financial acumen to analyse top performing assets for their investors. We offer a conduit between the relative value of Australian food and agribusinesses and the real asset portfolios of the world’s top institutional investors. The food and agriculture asset business is about people, trust, relationships and understanding the needs and culture of a community. Having walked on both the farming and the finance and commercial sides, we are able to offer solutions based on real world experience. This is our competitive advantage. Our differentiation: We maintain a deep value investing culture, making investments based on risk-adjusted returns, with a margin of safety and backing proven operators. We have the relationships and skills to access farms, the ability to analyse a farm like a business, and the ability to structure lower risk transactions and rework the paradigms of farming business models. We run a farm like a business, with an appropriate business model structured to align incentives, minimise risks and optimise potential. Following this logic, we invest our capital in farms that we think can be run like a business and price our entry so as to generate mandated target cash returns.