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Laguna Bay (also known as Laguna Bay Pastoral Company Pty Ltd) is an agricultural investment management company based in Noosa Heads, Australia. Established in 2010, Laguna Bay currently acts as owner, advisor, trustee or custodian to over AU$1 billion in assets.

Laguna Bay was founded by Timothy McGavin and Timothy Biggs in 2010 to expose institutional investors to agricultural assets in Australia.

Adveq Almond Trust 2
In November 2013, an Australian trust managed by Laguna Bay and backed by Swiss, Danish and United States fund managers agreed to pay more than $200 million for 12,000 hectares of almond groves in northern Victoria. It is the biggest agricultural deal transacted in Australia since the settlement of Inghams for $870 million earlier this year.

Timothy McGavin
Timothy McGavin is the Chief Executive Officer of Laguna Bay. He was raised on a sheep and cattle farm in Western Queensland and completed a Diploma of Agribusiness at the prestigious Marcus Oldham Farm Management College in Geelong, Victoria. At the age of 20, he started an aerial livestock mustering business in Northern Australia. Four years on, Tim purchased a small vineyard with his brother Rob. Over the next seven years the brothers turned this into one of Australia’s largest privately owned vineyards. In 2001 they sold the majority of their holdings, resulting in Tim being named in Rural Press’s top young achievers. Tim is a non-executive director of Landfill Gas Industries and a founding shareholder of Boundary Bend Ltd, which is now the largest producer of extra virgin olive oil in the Southern Hemisphere and ranks in the top 10 largest single olive oil producers in the world.

Timothy Biggs
Timothy Biggs is the Chief Investment Officer of Laguna Bay. Raised in Brisbane, Australia, Tim studied Economics and a Master of Applied Finance at Macquarie University. Prior to founding Laguna Bay, Tim specialised in the origination, structuring, sales and trading of equity securities at Pembroke Josephson Wright, Robert Fleming & Co and Credit Suisse. Post departing Credit Suisse, Tim founded Laguna Bay Capital, a firm established on the premise of performance-driven absolute return investing, with a focus on real assets such as gold, minerals, land and energy resources. Since inception, Laguna Bay Capital has consistently generated returns in excess of 50%. While on sabbatical in South America during 2008-09, Tim studied the history of financial panics, currency debasement, inflation and agriculture. During this time Tim also personally invested in real property in Argentina and Uruguay, and through Laguna Bay Capital was a cornerstone investor in Palma Linda, a 3,200ha grazing development fund. Laguna Bay Capital retains a 25% interest in the fund.

Timothy McGavin and Timothy Biggs first met at boarding school in the 1980’s.

Advisory Committee
Tim and Tim approached their key mentors to join the Laguna Bay Advisory Committee. Those appointed included:
 * Mervyn Peacock, former chair of UniSuper
 * Jonathan West, Associate Professor at Harvard University
 * Mark Nelson, Executive Chairman of Caledonia Investments
 * Jim Rogers, Agricultural Commodity Investor
 * John Moore, Ex-Federal Minister of Defence Australia