DLA have appointed the first woman to take the role as country manager – employment lawyer Laura Scampion. “Laura has made a major contribution to DLA Piper since she joined us in 2011. She became a partner in March 2015, which coincided with the New Zealand firm integrating with DLA Piper,” outgoing country managing partner Martin …
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Andrew Petersen succeeded former Power List member and Bell Gully chair Anna Buchly, who returned to full time practice with the ‘Golden Triangle’ Big Law firm and unquestionably one of the country’s most powerful law firms. Petersen has a lengthy background in real estate and projects law, having headed the firm’s division in that area …
Russell McVeagh has assisted Summerset to complete a loan facility refinance for approximately $1.2 billion, incorporating a $700 million Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) component, which takes effect 1 October 2021. This is one of the largest SLLs in the market to date, and the second SLL of significance that the firm has advised on so …
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The recent High Court judgment against Radio New Zealand (RNZ) follows the approach in Slater v APN in relation to hacked information and is likely to influence future Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) and Media Council decisions. Background When the Waikato District Health Board (WDHB) refused to pay the instigators of the May 2021 ransomware attack, the media …
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Chapman Tripp have recently celebrated the success of their law firm consultancy service, Chapman Tripp Consulting (CT Consulting), which the firm says is a “collaboration of the firm’s legal experts who bring a consulting service offering after more than 18 months of concept testing, development and refinement.” Chapman Tripp Chief Executive Pip England (pictured …
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Described as the ‘one to watch’ in New Zealand’s legaltech industry, Chapman Tripp with their technology and innovation business, Zeren, has been recognised on NZ Lawyer’s Innovative Firms list for 2020. Zeren delivers automated, legal technology services to help clients become more efficient, improve performance and manage risk. Products include a document automation service, a …
Board Chair Allison Arthur-Young said, “Congratulations to all of our clients and their advisers who are finalists ahead of this year’s INFINZ Awards – we’re extremely proud to have assisted on half of the dozen transactions noted as finalists and thank our clients for choosing us to work alongside them on these market-leading transactions, undertaken in a …
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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*. Based in the firm’s Auckland office, Greg returns to Russell McVeagh following six years as a partner of an Australasian financial advisory firm in its tax group, where he has been advising on a broad range …
Buddle Findlay is delighted to have supported the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) in agreeing a cloud framework agreement with TechnologyOne Limited that will allow government agencies to access TechnologyOne’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) financial management information systems (FMIS). This cloud framework agreement was specifically designed to allow agencies to transition as easily as possible …
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Duncan Cotterill has opened a Queenstown office with the acquisition of Mackersy Legal, from the beginning of April. Mackersy Legal specialises in property syndication work and has managed property syndication company Mackersy Property, operated by Ron Mackersy (pictured) which has accumulated commercial property assets throughout New Zealand worth around $2 billion via at least 80 …
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