Selected experience.
Pick an area to see a representative selection of the work. Deal values are indicative.
Commercial property and leasing
Acquisitions, sales, developments, and both landlord and tenant leasing, including portfolio-scale work.
- Lease management and the later sale of a $100m commercial property portfolio.
- Multiple commercial property settlements of over $10 million.
- Acquisition and sale of Overseas Investment Office sensitive land.
- Development-land sales, including sales to residential developers and the retention of access and parking rights.
- Landlord-side leasing on bespoke terms: new leases with bonds and guarantees, rent reviews, renewals and consents to assignment.
- Acting for a family office to manage and extend a suburban commercial property portfolio.
Corporate, M&A and business sales
Buying and selling businesses, restructures, shareholder arrangements and the financing that sits around them, from owner-operated companies to transactions in the tens of millions.
- Advising on the acquisition of a national distribution group, $10 million.
- A founder and employee buy-in to a construction group, including a multi-million-dollar retained-earnings dividend.
- Corporate restructure and share sale for a technology business, with the full governance, subscription and shareholders-agreement suite.
- Advising founders on bringing investors into early-stage businesses, including medical-device and consumer-product start-ups.
- A successful mediation enabling a pharmacy operator to acquire her business partner's shareholding.
Banking, security and finance
Acting for the borrower on the full security package, supporting the corporate and property work.
- A $6.7 million facility and security package: facility agreement, guarantees, general security, mortgage and specific security.
- Property-development and acquisition lending across the major trading banks and non-bank lenders.
Trusts, estates and succession
Establishment and administration, and resolving the disputes that arise.
- Estate administration, trust takeovers and resettlements.
- Sale of trading businesses out of a deceased estate.
- Trusts holding property as landlord, and wills and enduring powers of attorney for private clients.
Residential conveyancing
Everyday residential property work for private clients and family trusts.
- Sales and purchases, including settlements completed with a retention held pending remedial work.
- Refinances and mortgage discharges, settled on time with the bank.
- Subdivision of land into residential sections for sale.
Credentials.
BA, LLB, MBA. Admitted in 2004.
Prior roles
- Partner in an Auckland commercial firm.
- Senior in-house counsel on a major international infrastructure and major-event programme.
- General Counsel and Company Secretary of a listed group.