NZ Press Releases

The Commerce Commission has issued its draft decision on the maximum revenue Transpower can earn and the quality standards it must meet under its individual price-quality path (IPP) for the period 2020 – 2025. Transpower owns and operates New Zealand’s national grid, transmitting electricity from where it is generated to local lines companies that distribute […]

New union calls for change in the legal sector 20 May 2019 The Aotearoa Legal Workers’ Union (ALWU) launches today to advocate for all legal workers and to improve working conditions for junior lawyers in the legal sector. The revelations of bullying, burnout and sexual harassment in leading law firms over the past year has

Jeremy Ford, a lawyer at Juno Legal is the winner of the 2019 award. He is currently engaged in-house at the Overseas Investment Office and was nominated in his previous role as General Council, Earthquake Commission. The judges said the award recognises the significant impact that he made through his work at EQC – an

The Commerce Commission has closed its investigation into David Ferrier’s acquisition of a 70% equity interest in Cavalier Wool Holdings Limited as its concerns with the transaction have been addressed. In October last year the Commission opened an investigation of the acquisition under section 47 of the Commerce Act. The Commission was concerned that the

Russell McVeagh has been recognised as New Zealand’s top tax firm, winning the New Zealand Tax Firm of the Year award at theInternational Tax Review Asia Tax Awards last night. For the fourth year in a row, the firm was also named the New Zealand Tax Disputes & Litigation Firm of the Year. The prestigious awards