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Buddle Findlay Advise Infratril on $1.9 bn Tilt Renewables Sale

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Powered by LawFuel – Buddle Findlay is delighted to have advised Infratil on its conditional transaction announced on 15 March 2021 to sell its shareholding in Tilt Renewables Limited (Tilt) for ~NZ$1.926 billion.[1]  The proposed transaction will proceed by way of scheme of arrangement (Scheme), under which Powering Australian Renewables (PowAR) will effectively acquire Tilt’s Australian […]

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Law Firm’s Copied Correspondence Was Not The Sincerest Form of Flattery, But Simply Breach of Copyright

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Manchester-based law firm JMW Solicitors obtained a £45,000 damages payout from a law firm competitor after it saw with surprise and disappointment that the competitor had been plagiarising its correspondence. A partner at JMW saw the plagiarism when he was sent a letter of claim issued by Widnes-based law firm Hayes Connor, seeing that it was one

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DLA Piper advises Accel-KKR and Seequent on $USD1 Billion of Seequent Group

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DLA Piper has advised Accel-KKR and its portfolio company, Seequent Holdings Limited on the sale of Seequent Holdings Limited to Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY) for ~NZD 1.46 billion (USD 1.05 billion).  Seequent, head-quartered in Christchurch, is a global leader in software for geological and geophysical modeling, geotechnical stability, and cloud services for geodata management, visibility,

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Minters’ CEO Leaves After Email Firestorm

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Minter Ellison CEO Anette Kimmitt has left the firm she headed following her email to staff about partner Peter Bartlett acting for Australian Attorney General Christian Porter who faced rape allegations. MinterEllison’s chairman, David O’Brien, told staff via an email sent on Wednesday that Kimmitt had left, and would be replaced in an acting capacity

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Russell McVeagh Welcome Back Tax Expert

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Russell McVeagh is delighted to announce that Tax expert and alumnus Greg Neill is returning to the firm as Russell McVeagh’s newest Tax partner, effective 1 April 2021*. >> See the latest legal jobs on LawFuel’s Law Jobs Network Based in the firm’s Auckland office, Greg returns to Russell McVeagh following six years as a partner of

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Joseph Parker Named As High Profile Sportsman In Drug Trial

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Joseph Parker named in drug trial

Boxer Joseph Parker has been named as the ‘high profile sportsman’ with connections to an international drug syndicate that smuggled 20 kgs of drugs into New Zealand through the postal service. A Supreme Court judgment released today saw the Court say that it was not in the interests of justice to allow Parker to appeal

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Russell McVeagh Takes a Lead On Women-in-Law With 3 Key Points For Junior Woman Lawyers

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Russell McVeagh is putting its best womens’ feet forward with International Women’s Day and having the firm’s newly appointed woman Chair, Allison Arthur-Young speak to the firm’s breakfast club, their network of junior women lawyers. It’s as if the crisis of three years ago never happened – or because of it that the event and

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Buddle Findlay Advises Price Industries on First Foray To New Zealand and Australia

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Powered by LawFuel – Buddle Findlay was recently lead counsel to Price Industries Limited, a Canadian company specialising in commercial HVAC, on its acquisition of an interest in the air management solutions business of Holyoake Industries Limited in New Zealand and Australia. Headquartered in Winnipeg, Price Industries is one of North America’s leading commercial HVAC

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