Recent Case Law

Recent Projects

• Advising on a significant potential class action relating to alleged breaches of the Securities Act and Financial Markets Conduct Act arising from an IPO.
• Acting for the purchaser in litigation arising from a $200m business sale that collapsed.
• Providing advice to clients on commercial contracts including the terms of sale and purchase agreements.
• Advising on the terms of restraints in leases.
• Acting in numerous relationship property matters including an extremely contentious one that settled after four days of mediation.
• Providing advice regarding the terms of a significant construction contract for a project worth approximately $100m.
• Successfully obtaining without notice injunctions freezing defendants’ assets.
• Acting in construction contract adjudications.
• Leading concluding negotiations for a client for the settlement of an insurance claim in excess of $100m.

• Acting for a shareholder of a substantial family-owned business in a shareholder dispute.
• Acting for shareholders in response to s174 claims in a family-owned business
• Advising a member of one of New Zealand’s wealthiest families in relation to trusts and shareholder matters.
• Provided advice on intellectual property issues, including involving breach of copyright and passing off and acting in two disputes involving trademarks for a winery.
• Acting as lead counsel in a significant claim involving a company that collapsed owing in excess of $30m involving application of the Securities Act and the Financial Markets Conduct Act.
• Successfully acting as a mediator.
• Acting on an estate claim involving constructive trust claims.
• Acting in an injunction arising from shareholder dispute relating to the sale of a business.
• Acting for liquidators of a trustee company attempting to realise its assets for the benefit of creditors.