Bell Gully – Bell Gully’s The Big Picture: Takeovers Update provides an analysis of key observations from takeovers announced in 2017. New Zealand listed companies attracted strong interest from buyers last year, producing the highest level of takeover activity seen in the past decade. In the fourth consecutive year of increased takeover activity in this […]
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Perhaps New Zealand’s best known law school Dean, Professor Mark Henaghan, has stepped down from his long-held role. The head of the University of Otago’s faculty of law is stepping down as dean in the wake of an outcry over second-year law camps. A much-loved and colourful character, the Dean’s administration was recently also tainted
DLA Piper has been in the sexual harassment firing line with a report that a partner has left the Wellington practice following a complaint over “behavioural issues.” Wellington employment lawyer Barbara Buckett said her Wellington firm currently had about six cases her firm was handling involving lawyers and with what Stuff.co.nz reported as having a
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Simpson Grierson – 2018 set to be a big year for public law and regulation. The Labour-led government is creating momentum, with new legislation, significant regulatory and social sector reviews and some key policy changes. Elsewhere in public law, technology is creating new pressures for government and highlighting the need for some (overdue) changes. Closely
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Simpson Grierson have appointed commercial litigator lawyer Anne Callinan as their new chair. Ms Callinan has previously spent six years on the board and in a statement today the firm said she is well known for her strategic thinking and down to earth approach. The position takes effect immediately.
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The New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has ordered that Timothy Upton Slack be struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors. He admitted a charge that, having been convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment, that conviction reflected on his fitness to practise, and/or tended to bring the legal profession into disrepute. The
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The former asset manager of a tax-payer funded disability trust has been sentenced to eight months of home detention and ordered to pay reparations of $164,929 for charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office. Saul Brendon Roberts was sentenced today in the Auckland High Court. He had pleaded guilty earlier to all five charges he
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MinterEllisonRuddWatts performance on New Zealand’s most interesting business opportunities and transactions has been recognised in this year’s Australasian Law Awards. The Australasian Law Awards recognise leading law firms and in-house teams for their outstanding achievements. A finalist for New Zealand Deal Firm of the Year and the only national law firm to have two finalists
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Since 2012, I have been defending the United States’ attempt to extradite me to face a criminal prosecution in the United States. I have always argued that the conduct alleged online dissemination of copyright protected works by Megaupload’s users – is not an extradition offence. The High Court correctly found this conduct is not an
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The Commerce Commission has confirmed the scope for its study into mobile telecommunications markets in New Zealand. “Mobile technology is an increasingly critical enabler for business productivity and social interaction. We know that New Zealanders love their mobile devices with more than 6.4 million in use – or about 1.3 per person,” Telecommunications Commissioner Dr
