Corporate & Commercial Law

Working closely with you, we can understand your vision for your business and use our legal and commercial knowledge to help you achieve the best outcomes. Your transaction is important to us, because it’s part of the bigger picture of you achieving your commercial and strategic goals.

We draw on our experience for a wide range of innovative and unique solutions for our clients, whatever their business. We apply our in-depth sectoral knowledge to provide tailor-made, commercially-focused advice on time, and within budget.

Advising both commercial clients and regulators gives us a unique perspective.  We understand New Zealand’s regulatory framework, and represent clients in their engagements with the Overseas Investment Office, the Commerce Commission and the Financial Markets Authority, among others. 

Our success in creating value for clients means our practice is a destination for the best legal talent in the field.

• Assisting a major corporate on the structure and contractual arrangements for a $200m development in Tauranga’s CBD.
• Assisting a major corporate on the structure and commercial arrangements for a 35-hectare development of land near Auckland Airport.
• Acting for the Ministry of Education in relation to its transport portfolio including contracting and health and safety matters.
• Acting for Queenstown Lakes District Council in relation to a joint venture with Ngāi Tahu.
• Acting for Auckland Council on the $4.2bn City Rail Link in joint venture with the Crown.
• Advising on structuring and commercial arrangements for the Moana Pasifika rugby franchise.
• Advising a Crown Research Institute on governance matters and local and international commercial contracting.
• Advising various start-up entities on structuring and funding.
• Acting for a European luxury accommodation provider on its merger and subsequent demerger with a United States developer.
• Assisting a tourism sector client with the acquisition of various entities worldwide specialising in luxury hotel and lodge accommodation.
• Working with an NZX-listed hospitality chain on its supply agreements with logistics operators for nationwide F&B delivery arrangements.
• Advising a major developer of social housing on its structure, funding and contractual arrangements with community housing providers.
• Advising a financial service provider on corporate structuring and its merchant acquiring service contracts with major New Zealand banks.
• Advising iwi on entity structuring and limited partnership arrangements for a large-scale housing development in Auckland.
• Advising an NZX-listed retirement village developer on construction and commercial matters.
• Advising a property syndication group on capital raising and commercial contracts relating to its acquisitions and developments.
• Advising a New Zealand dredging and marine construction company on significant local and international contracts, including for the Caltex redevelopment of Sydney Harbour and the Port of Melbourne redevelopment.
• Advising a national retailer on the structuring of development entities for its retail and residential development projects.
• Assisting an NZX-listed hospitality chain with the sale and purchase of various retail businesses around New Zealand.
• Assisting with acquisitions of a number of service stations on the sale of energy assets and a service station business.
• Strategic advice to the Ministry of Education in relation to the weathertightness remediation programme concerning its $21b property portfolio.
• Advising the New Zealand government on the $200m underwrite of the Rugby World Cup 2011.
• Advising on the restructure of the Eden Park Trust Board.
• Advising PE fund entity on its joint venture with Time Inc.
• Advising New Zealand ear, nose and throat surgeons on joint venture structure.