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Advisors | APAC | Professional Services | Due diligence and dealmaking
In agribusiness, deals don't happen in boardrooms, they happen on properties, over the phone at all hours, with people who've spent a lifetime building something. Rawdon Briggs, Head of Agribusiness at Colliers, knows this better than most. He leads a national team that operates across the full complexity of the food, fibre and agribusiness sector, and he needs tools that can keep up. Watch his story.
For Rawdon Briggs, agribusiness advisory is fundamentally about people. As Head of Agribusiness, Transaction Services at Colliers, a leading diversified professional services and investment company, Rawdon leads a national team that helps clients in the food, fibre and agribusiness sector realise their long-term goals. Whether that means seeking capital, finding the right partners, repositioning a business, or navigating succession planning, his work takes him deep into regional Australia, and that's exactly where he wants to be.
What sets Colliers apart, Rawdon explains, is a collective intelligence model, one that considers deals and market dynamics from a global, national and regional perspective simultaneously. It's an approach built for the growing sophistication of the sector. Over his fifteen years in agency, Rawdon has watched agricultural enterprises adopt technology at a pace that has fundamentally changed the metrics and profit drivers of the industry, with agtech private equity investment growing fivefold or more.
Rawdon first discovered Ansarada in 2017, and the impression it made was immediate. His analysts at the time noted the quality of the experience, and the team has been using the platform ever since. For Rawdon, the decision to keep coming back comes down to three things: round-the-clock support, gold-standard governance and data recovery, and a user experience that genuinely works.
Beyond support, Ansarada has changed the way Rawdon's team prepares and runs transactions. The platform's buyer engagement insights allow the team to understand exactly what bidder groups are looking for at each stage, and to show up ready. "It makes our entire team more effective because we're actually spending time on the things that 90% of buyer groups require in a due diligence set pre any launch," he says. Time that would otherwise be spent second-guessing is now spent on what matters.
For a team operating at the intersection of high-value assets and complex stakeholder groups, having one trusted, secure repository is non-negotiable. Rawdon and his team have used Ansarada as a single source of truth for 7 years running. "It's invaluable," he says. "It's governance at the gold level."

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