Bankside Chambers’ Laura O’Gorman has been appointed to the High Court. >> A New Law Job? Check The LawFuel Network Justice O’Gorman went to the University of Auckland in 1996, attaining a BCom/LLB (Hons) degree before working at Buddle Findlay until 1998. She obtained an LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1999. Subsequently, during
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New Zealand Judges’ Panoply of Privileges The Sunday-StarTimes provided an insight into something lawyers largely knew already: that New Zealand Judges are among the most privileged of any group in New Zaland. The Judges possess one of the most substantial pension plans among those in the public service, effectively boosting their salaries by nearly 40
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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
The LawFuel Power List has seen three leading lawyers leave the list in recent weeks, with the most recent being the announced retirement of NZ Super Funds CEO Matt Whineray. Whineray has headed the $60 billion Super Fund since 2018 and is expected to double in size in the next decade. He is no. 7
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Bell Gully have appointed five new partners and three special counsel in a new round of elevations for the firm. The press release announcing the appointments is below: Bell Gully’s new senior appointments represent some of the best legal talent in Aotearoa New Zealand. The five new partners are experienced banking and finance lawyers Sarah
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The Legal 500 rankings for 2023 include a range of kiwi law firms that the organisation assessing law firms in over 150 jurisdictions with the major firms unsurprisingly dominating the Tier 1 rankings. The report highlights the role of all the major firms maintaining a “strong presence in the market” in a catchall outline of
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Anthony Sinclair – Partner at Quinn Emanuel. A leader in litigation in the oil and gas, telecoms and utilities sectors, including for states and investors. Obtaining a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge after graduate in law from the University of Canterbury, he has developed a particular specialism acting in relation to investor-state disputes. However,
LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
A recent briefing from Bayleys NZ looked at the repercussions of rising inflation and interest rate rises when it comes to the outlook for property prices next year. The report from Bayleys’ property partner Knight Frank indicated that economic upheavals in the New Zealand property market are “far from done”. >> See The LawFuel Power
Wendy Miles KC specialises in international arbitration, public international and private international law from Twenty Essex, formerly a Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton and Boies, Schiller & Flexner. A graduate from Canterbury University, she helped set up the Net Zero Lawyers’ Alliance, designed to mobilise commercial lawyers and their firms to achieve climate mitigation goals.
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