Russell McVeagh continues to support its home-grown talent while building its expertise across a number of key practice areas, recently promoting five senior associates: Breanna Macara and Nicola Robbins Osborne (Corporate Advisory), James Tocher and Maddy Lister (Litigation), and Callum Dickson (Competition and Regulation). Breanna, Nicola and Callum all began their careers at the firm, with Breanna and Nicola having advanced their careers at Russell […]
New Zealand’s Minister for Infrastructure, The Honourable Chris Bishop, has recently announced a raft of measures to support infrastructure projects in New Zealand. The announcements reflect an exciting change in policy focus and direction since the election of The Honourable Christopher Luxon’s National Party-led government last year. The key measures announced recently are: The New
Among the LawFuel power lawyers list, published this week, are a new group of inhouse legal counsel wielding considerable power in the increasing influence of inhouse counsel in New Zealand’s legal scene. The recent collapse of SolarZero has seen the New Zealand Green Investment Fund’s future thrown into some doubt after the profile collapse when
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31. David Bricklebank The ‘bank’ is in the name and David Bricklebank’s role in New Zealand’s largest bank with assets exceeding $180 billion is one of significance given the increased regulatory and compliance requirements affecting all financial institutions. As General Counsel and Company Secretary of Athe bank since 2017, he holds a key role in
LawFuel Power List 2024 During the year, the legal profession has seen new entrants, as an emerging number of influential commercial lawyers and litigators increasingly exert their influence over the profession. Women continue to also better reflect the preponderance of women law graduates as capable and effective women lawyers play a key role in shaping
The former Contract Manager who pleaded guilty in a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) fraud and corruption case relating to the awarding of road maintenance contracts has been sentenced to four years and five months imprisonment in the Auckland District Court. Jason Koroheke, a former Contract Manager at Broadspectrum, was the architect of several schemes where
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The top 10 of New Zealand’s most influential and powerful lawyers on the LawFuel List for 2024 – 1. Una Jagose KC Una Jagose QC, New Zealand’s Solicitor-General since 2016, remains at the top of the 2024 Power List, notwithstanding the most challenging year of her career. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in
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Another younger dealmaker has made the cut in this year’s LawFuel Power List of the country’s 50 most powerful lawyers. Ian Beaumont at Russell McVeagh cut his dealmaking teeth at leading M&A and transactional law firm Skadden Arps in New York before returning to New Zealand and advising on some of the largest deals done
Auckland lawyer Aaron Nicholls has been struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors for misappropriating over $700,000 of client funds. The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal made this decision after Nicholls failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for the missing money. Nicholls, who was suspended earlier this year due to client complaints about missing
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Law firms are commencing their Christmas ‘bashes’ in more-or-less traditional form, and a summary of some of the plans made by the big law firms was discussed in Sasha Borissenko’s Herald column, noting that Chapman Tripp, DLA Piper and Meredith Connell failed to respond to her request for details of their Christmas functions, putting them
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