Bell Gully has retained its market-leading position as a legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions, according to two major international league tables released in January. Annual reviews from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters ranked Bell Gully within the top 20 firms in Australasia in three out of four measures of merger and acquisition activity in 2017. […]
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It was always coming – the day when women outnumbered men in the New Zealand legal profession. And now it has arrived, with the NZ Law Society announcing that of the 13,103 lawyers practising, 6553 are women. Women admitted to the bar have exceeded men since the early 1990s, but the gap has now closed.
The pregnancy of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lead to Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters accepting the baubles of Ms Ardern’s office for at least six weeks while she takes leave to have her baby in June. Ironically perhaps, Ms Arderns’ pregnancy was found out during the coalition talks where Mr Peters was centre state
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Paul Crail Among New Zealand’s most powerful lawyers, outlined in the third LawFuel “Power List”, the politicians and jurists are excluded from membership. We all know they have power. The purpose of the Power List is to outline those non-political, non-judicial legal identifies who wield power within New Zealand. But one politician who has enveloped
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Acting for the bank shareholders of Paymark (ANZ, ASB, BNZ and Westpac), the law firm is advising on its signing of a $190 million sale agreement with Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment. The sale agreement includes the extension of the service agreements currently in force between Paymark and the four leading acquiring
Kensington Swan is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Special Counsel and two new Senior Associates, effective from 1 January 2018. These promotions are effective from 1 January 2018, and are part of our ongoing commitment to the development and progression of excellent lawyers within the firm. Each of the following individuals are
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Chapman Tripp acted on the most M&A deals out of all New Zealand law firms in 2017, according to latest league tables. The firm was ranked 11th in Australasia by both Bloomberg and Mergermarket for overall M&A deal count, with 28 deals recognised by both publishers. “2017 was a softer year for M&A, but Chapman
The Ministry of Justice has been criticised for failing to properly track expenditure on major projects intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts. Auditor General Greg Schollum identified projects including video conferencing, centralised administration and online fine dispute resolution as three key areas that had not properly been tracked by the Ministry
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Litigators will know that many cases rely on the testimony of experts. But their expertise to be an expert can be questionable. A one-day seminar on 26 February in Auckland, on the role of the expert, will shine a light on expert investigators, expert witnesses and expert determiners. The day includes sessions on investigator bias
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Napier lawyer Richard Henry Hill, sentenced to eight months’ home detention and 100 hours community work on a charge of criminal breach of trust, has been struck off the roll. The conviction last year related to offending in his capacity as a lawyer and trust account partner in his previous law firm McKay Hill. A
