Our team provides advice on all aspects of corporate and commercial law. Our clients in this area range from entrepreneurs through to multinational concerns.
We make it easy for them to achieve the results they’re seeking by looking for ways to make the deal happen. We think about how each client likes to work, the nature of their issue, and their attitude to risk. We then make recommendations based on this information, designed to get them their desired outcome in a way that works for them.
If you want to work with a team that will look for ways to get the deal done, contact one of our partners listed below.
Our services include
- Asset and share purchases/sales
- Company constitutions and shareholder agreements
- Company sales and purchases
- Company structuring
- Competition law issues
- Corporate governance and directors’ duties
- Debt/equity securities and capital raising (including Securities Act issues)
- Financial Reporting Act and company law disclosure requirements
- General business advice
- Joint venture arrangements
- Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers
- Public listings
- Share issues, rights issues, offers and buy backs
- Statutory compliance
- Succession planning
Partners

- Alistair Moore
- Phone: 03 477 3973

- Anne McLeod
- Phone: 03 471 5409
- Also: 03 364 9219

- Ben Johnston
- Phone: 03 335 1230

- Stephen Brent
- Phone: 03 450 0739

- Warwick Deuchrass
- Phone: 03 467 7169
Consultants
Associates
Solicitors
- Olivia Crisp
- Phone: 03 450 0736
- Sonia Reiber
- Phone: 03 471 5423
Publications
- Lawlink publication - Corporate Governance
- Phoenix Companies – Personal Liability and Penalties for Directors
- Investment Advisers and Brokers – New Disclosure Obligations
- Limited partnerships as an investment destination
- Are you sure you have the best claim to your own wine?
- Law Commission's Review of Privacy Act 1993
- Obligations of a Purchaser in the event of a Breach of a Vendor Warranty on Settlement
- 90 Day Trial Period for Employees
- Cashing in Annual Leave
- Overseas Investment in Farms
- Cancellation of Leases due to "Untenantability"
- Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Bill Update
- Employees' Access to Information
- What staff do in their own time - Is it your business?
- How to successfully introduce a 90 day trial period for employees
- Draft Recovery Strategy for Greater Christchurch
- Existing Use Rights and the Draft Christchurch Central City Plan
- Build Green Christchurch
- Remedies against ex-employees
- Sleepovers and the Minimum Wage Obligations
- Managers can be "vulnerable" too
- Contracts for Supply of Services
- When is Finance Arranged?
- Sympathy Strikes? Unlawful?
- Southland Dairy Conversions Require Consent
- Oral Contracts
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