Deb Blackett – General Counsel, Z Energy General Counsel and Chief Governing Office, Deb Blackett is a highly seasoned commercial lawyer with a strong background in corporate law and in particular, competition law, regulation, and mergers and acquisitions. She held similar roles at BP New Zealand, ANZ New Zealand, and Telecom (now Spark) following a […]
Tom Thursby – One New Zealand The in-house counsel for the former Vodafone, Tom Thursby has headed the One NZ legal and regulatory team since March 2023, having a background with telco legal work in both the UK and New Zealand. The legal and regulatory team at Vodafone was shortlisted as IFLR Inhouse Team of
Specialist firm IDR Law, focused on wills disputes, has received a £3.25m investment from private equity firm BGF. The funds will be used for recruitment, technology investment, and office expansion across the Midlands, north east, and London. IDR Law is the only UK firm specializing exclusively in wills, probate, and trust disputes.
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Power List Headliner Michael Heron KC Fronts Bourkes Law Inquiry Top ranking Power List member Michael Heron KC is to head another inquiry, this time into a community magistrate who threatened to have criminal lawyer Sami Taghavi placed in a cell for allegedly using a cellphone in Court. According to her online profile, Taghavi, from
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Rich list law firm Withersworldwide has sought a capital contribution from junior partners, the first major law firm to seek capital from partners in the current rrecession
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On-demand in house law firm services in New Zealand have become more competitive with the arrival of Hamiliton Locke to rival Juno Legal in New Zealand
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Sir David Williams KC is New Zealand’s leading international arbitrator and a former High Court Judge who is now retiring.
Barrister Murray Tingey’s complainant had made the complaint about the former Bell Gully partner and senior commercial litigator many years later out of a “sense of duty” towards women in the legal profession, according to the counsel representing the Law Society Standards Committee. A meeting with Power Lawyer and Bell Gully Chairman Roger Partridge had
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The harshness of the Ardern response to Covid was one reason the ‘kindness’ factor wore off very quickly
Lawyer of the Year Sees A Less ‘Kind’ Side to Jacinda Ardern Read More »
Turner Hopkins and tax advisory firm Bellingham Wallace have joined forces with large global professional firm Andersen Global. >> New Job? Check LawFuel’s New Law Job Listings Here The two firms entered a ‘collaboration agreement’ with Andersen Global, which was founded in 2002 by a group of partners from the defunct Arthur Andersen global tax
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