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Bell Gully: Three New Partners, Five Senior Associates Appointed

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Jennifer Gunser Bell Gully

Bell Gully is delighted to announce the appointment of three new partners, five senior associates and a special counsel for 2021. The new partners are specialist banking and finance lawyer Jennifer Gunser (pictured)and two experienced litigators Blair Keown and Kirsty Dobbs*. Bell Gully’s three new partners “The firm’s market leading litigation and financial services teams continue to be very busy […]

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Anderson Lloyd: Promotions at Anderson Lloyd

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Senior Associate Eva Roe has been promoted to Senior Associate in Anderson Lloyd’s Queenstown Property and Private Client Team. Eva specialises in property law, with a focus on projects, property subdivisions and developments, and has a background in banking and finance. Heidi Bendikson has been promoted to Senior Associate in Anderson Lloyd’s Queenstown Property and Private Client

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Morrison Mallett Announce Auckland Promotion

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Specialist corporate and commercial law firm Morrison Mallett has announced the appointment of Victoria Anderson as partner based in Auckland effective 1 February 2021. Anderson is a leading corporate law and M&A specialist and has advised on some of New Zealand’s largest transactions in recent times, including the acquisition of Westland Milk Co-operative Dairy Company by Inner

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Is This a Law Firm Management Trend That Is Likely To Catch-On?

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law firm management professional Kate Tompkins

For many years, several leading business advisors have suggested that law firms need to broaden their management horizons by employing law firm CEOs who are not themselves lawyers. Many lawyers either dislike or show a lack of ability to managing law firms and yet there are frequently management professionals readily available to take charge and

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Chapman Tripp Veteran Nick Wells Steps Back

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Nick Wells on LawFuel's Power List 2018

Former Chapman Tripp chief executive Nick Wells has stepped back from a lead role at the firm, leaving the partnership to become a consultant to the firm’s corporate practice and to its Maori legal group, Te Waka Ture. Wells, a LawFuel Power List entrant at No. 30 last year, has been at the firm for

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Who Said 2020 Was Bad For Lawyers? World’s Highest Grossing Law Firm Set To Surge to $5bn on

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The world’s highest-grossing law firm, Power Law firm Kirkland & Ellis, is on track to post record annual revenue of ~$5 billion for the 12 months ending in January, according to the Financial Times. Despite a sagging global economy, Kirkland & Ellis has surged with growth in its three main areas of operation —private equity, restructuring, and

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The Former Regional Lawyer Who Has Become a Power Lawyer and Joined The Sunday Times Rich List

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The chief executive of law firm Knights has sold a £61.2m (US84 million) stake in the company after it underwent a secondary placing and has already joined the Sunday Times Rich List as one of Britain’s new Power Lawyers. The firm, originally back by Dragons’ Den principal James Caan (pictured left) in 2013, as we

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Chapman Tripp: Maori Economy Soars to $68bn

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Latest estimates from BERL (Business and Economic Research Limited) are that the asset base of the Māori economy was worth $68.7 billion at 2018. This does not reflect the effects of the COVID pandemic, but still represents very high growth. BERL’s estimate at 2013 in the same series was just $42.6b, while in 2017 the Māori economy

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Bob Jones: Our COVID Crisis – Were “Blatant lies” fed to the government?

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An international row broke out yesterday in Europe, with the European Union crying unfair and accusing Britain of hogging access to coronavirus vaccines at the expense of EU nations. Boris countered, saying it’s a contractual matter which they expect to be honoured. Plainly Britain had acted quickly ordering the vaccines while of all countries, amazingly

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