Alastair Hercus
Partner, Wellington
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Allan Yeoman
Partner, Auckland
Allan is a partner in Buddle Findlay's Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) team. He specialises in providing…
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Amy Ryburn
Partner, Wellington
Board of Management
Amy specialises in commercial law. She advises on a range of commercial matters but has a particular focus on technology, media and te…
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Bridie McKinnon
Partner, Wellington
Bridie has over 15 years' experience in a range of litigation matters in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.…
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Charlotte von Dadelszen
Partner, Wellington
Board of Management
Charlotte specialises in leasing, construction and land-related property advice. She has been involved in the development…
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Daniel Collins
Partner, Auckland
Daniel specialises in banking and finance and has extensive experience working in New Zealand, the Asia Pacific and the Middle East…
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Daniel Kelleher
Partner, Auckland
Daniel has earned his reputation as a leading practitioner in the property sector by developing strong and lasting relationships with p…
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David Allen
Partner, Wellington
David specialises in all aspects of resource management, environmental and natural resources law and local government law…
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David Broadmore
Partner, Auckland
David specialises in commercial litigation. He has over 17 years' experience in resolving banking and finance, insolvency, insurance…
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David Perry
Partner, Auckland
David specialises in banking and financial services, and restructuring and insolvency law. He represents banks and financial…
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David Randal
Partner, Wellington
David specialises in resource management, environmental and Māori law. He has advised clients at the heart of intensive RMA…
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David Thomson
Partner, Auckland
David specialises in corporate and commercial law with considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures…
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Grant Dunn
Partner, Auckland
Grant specialises in corporate and commercial law and has over 20 years experience. He previously spent six years with the London…
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Hak Jun Lee
Partner, Auckland
Hak Jun specialises in banking and financial services and has extensive experience in property law and overseas investment…
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Hamish Kynaston
Partner, Wellington
Hamish specialises in employment relations, litigation, health law, health and safety, and education…
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Hamish Selby
Partner, Auckland
Hamish specialises in intellectual property and leads the Buddle Findlay intellectual property team…
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Jan Etwell
Partner, Christchurch
Jan leads the Christchurch banking and financial services team. She has particular expertise in regulatory compliance including…
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Jennifer Caldwell
Partner, Auckland
National Chair
Jennifer specialises in resource management, environmental and local government law, with extensive experience as a strategic…
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John Buchan
Partner, Christchurch
John specialises in corporate and commercial law and in particular, commercial property. He acts on a wide range of transactions…
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Julia Gabrielle
Partner, Christchurch
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Kelly Paterson
Partner, Christchurch
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Lisette Hood
Partner, Auckland
Lisette specialises in corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on commercial contracting, corporate governance and merge…
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Luke Sizer
Partner, Auckland
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Mark Odlin
Partner, Christchurch
Board of Management
Mark specialises in corporate and commercial law and advises on a range of financial, commercial and corporate law matters, including…
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Miriam Andrews
Partner, Auckland
Miriam specialises in banking and finance. Prior to re-joining Buddle Findlay in 2013, Miriam was transaction director at…
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Natasha Wilson
Partner, Wellington
Natasha is a member of our public law team in Wellington, and has extensive experience in the health, education, and science and…
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Nick Bragg
Partner, Auckland
Nick specialises in corporate and commercial law with considerable experience across a broad range of mergers and acquisitions…
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Olly Peers
Partner, Christchurch
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Paul Beverley
Partner, Wellington
Paul was the National Chair of Buddle Findlay from 2017 to March 2020. Paul specialises in Māori Law, Treaty settlement negotiations…
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Paul Farrugia
Partner, Auckland
Board of Management
Paul specialises in banking and finance law and has a broad range of experience in domestic and cross-border financings with…
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Peter Chemis
Partner, Wellington
Peter specialises in employment law, industrial relations and related areas, and leads Buddle Findlay’s national employment team…
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Peter Owles
Partner, Auckland
Peter specialises in all aspects of banking and financial services law, with over 30 years' experience…
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Philip Wood
Partner, Auckland
Philip specialises in providing commercial, IT, telecommunication, media and television/film sector advice including strategic advice…
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Rupert Rouch
Partner, Wellington
Rupert specialises in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate advisory matters, including a particular focus on…
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Sarah McEwan
Partner, Auckland
Sarah specialises in corporate and commercial law with a broad range of experience in capital markets and securities transactions…
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Scott Abel
Partner, Auckland
Scott specialises in insolvency and debt restructuring, corporate and secured finance, and specialist personal property security and…
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Scott Barker
Partner, Wellington
Scott specialises in litigation and insolvency law. He advises both private and public sector clients…
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Sherridan Cook
Partner, Auckland
Board of Management
Sherridan specialises in employment, industrial relations and health and safety as well as litigation and dispute resolution…
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Steve Nightingale
Partner, Wellington
Steve specialises in corporate law including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, limited partnership…
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Susan Rowe
Partner, Christchurch
Susan specialises in litigation, local government, insurance, industrial relations and health and safety. Susan currently advises…
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Susie Kilty
Partner, Wellington
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Terence Ng
Partner, Auckland
Terence specialises in banking and finance, corporate and commercial, and property law…
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Thaddeus Ryan
Partner, Wellington
Thad specialises in resource management and Māori law. Thad has a particular specialty in RMA consenting and…
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Tom Bennett
Partner, Auckland
Tom specialises in real estate, construction, procurement and infrastructure projects…
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Tony Wilkinson
Partner, Auckland
Tony has a highly regarded practice acting for public and private sector clients. He is the lead tax advisor for Buddle Findlay’s most…
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Vanessa Evitt
Partner, Auckland
Vanessa specialises in resource management, environmental and local government law. She has acted…
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Willie Palmer
Partner, Christchurch
Willie specialises in commercial litigation including construction, insurance and insolvency law. He has broad experience in…
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Aisling Weir
Special Counsel, Auckland
Aisling is a senior commercial lawyer who specialises in health and technology matters…
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Anna Parker
Special Counsel, Auckland
Anna specialises in competition and consumer law, economic regulation of infrastructure, and public law…
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Bassam Maghzal
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Bassam is a highly driven commercial lawyer specialising in infrastructure and construction projects…
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Benjamin Sutton
Special Counsel, Auckland
Benjamin specialises in corporate and commercial law. He advises clients on a range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions…
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Blake Cescon
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Blake specialises in property, local government and banking law. He acts for various local authorities, central government, and a…
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Brannavan Gnanalingam
Special Counsel, Wellington
Brannavan specialises in property, litigation, insolvency and debt recovery. Brannavan has been involved in large-scale…
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Catherine Miller
Special Counsel, Auckland
Catherine specialises in health, education, privacy and commercial law. She advises a wide range of public and private sector clients…
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Cedric Carranceja
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Cedric specialises in a wide range of resource management and environmental issues arising from aviation…
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Damien Steel-Baker
Special Counsel, Wellington
Damien specialises in commercial contracting and procurement, with a focus on technology, media and telecommunications (TMT)…
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Fiona Heiford
Special Counsel, Wellington
Fiona specialises in tax with particular expertise in commercial transactions…
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Frances Wedde
Special Counsel, Wellington
Frances specialises in the Resource Management Act (RMA) and Māori law…
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Myles O'Brien
Special Counsel, Auckland
Myles specialises in transactional banking and restructuring. He has extensive experience on corporate transactional banking and…
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Nicola Cuervo
Special Counsel, Wellington
Nicola specialises in health law, information privacy, managing complaints, employment and industrial relations, and dispute…
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Paul Appleyard
Special Counsel, Auckland
Paul specialises in banking and finance with a focus on event driven finance, complex and cross border financing, syndicated lending…
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Peter Niven
Special Counsel, Wellington
Peter specialises in litigation, insolvency and credit recovery. He advises both private and public sector clients on a broad range…
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Rebecca Green
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Rebecca specialises in financial markets regulation, including in relation to financial product disclosure and compliance…
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Shaun Brookes
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Shaun specialises in employment law, industrial relations, human rights, and health and safety…
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Sophie Thoreau
Special Counsel, Auckland
Sophie specialises in intellectual property law and the provision of commercial advice in an IP context. She has extensive experience…
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Renee Stiles
Senior Consultant, Wellington
Renee is a member of our Wellington corporate and commercial team, specialising in commercial contracting, information and communicatio…
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Simon Vodanovich
Senior Consultant, Auckland
Simon specialises in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), general corporate advice and the laws and rules regulating New Zealand’s…
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Alastair Sherriff
Consultant, Wellington
Alastair specialises in representing and providing alcohol licensing advice to medical officers of health…
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John Glengarry
Consultant, Auckland
Patent Attorney | Trade Marks Attorney | Notary Public
John specialises in intellectual property law and has extensive experience in New Zealand and overseas…
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Mel Easton
Consultant, Auckland
Mel specialises in local government, property and construction law…
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Shane Johnstone
Consultant, Auckland
Shane has more than 25 years' experience in banking, finance, structured finance (including securitisations) and securities law…
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Simon Jensen
Consultant, Auckland
Simon specialises in financial sector regulation, payments and clearing systems, and projects and advice for financial institutions…
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Stephen Whittington
Consultant, Wellington
Stephen specialises in negotiation and documentation of commercial property transactions, development and construction advice…
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Tony Dellow
Consultant, Wellington
Tony specialises in competition law and regulatory processes, especially in infrastructure industries. Tony’s practice is unique…
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Alastair Pettitt
Senior Associate, Auckland
Alastair specialises in commercial property and local government law. He advises local authorities, Crown entities, banks and…
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Alex Chapman
Senior Associate, Wellington
Alex specialises in commercial contracting with a focus on technology, privacy and data protection and intellectual property. Her expe…
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Amy Goatley
Senior Associate, Auckland
Amy specialises in corporate and commercial law with particular experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures…
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Amy Watson
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Amy specialises in property, public and local government law. She advises clients on a wide range of commercial…
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Anna Wishart
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Anna specialises in trust, commercial, corporate and property law. Anna has particular expertise in trust law and advises on the…
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Celia Olds
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Celia specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution…
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Cerridwen Bulow
Senior Associate, Wellington
Cerridwen specialises in resource management, environmental and Māori law. She advises on a range of resource management matters…
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Danielle Elley
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Danielle specialises in general commercial and corporate law, commercial and residential property, and trust law…
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Diana Thomas
Senior Associate, Wellington
Diana specialises in public law and advises government departments, Crown entities and private clients on a range of public, regulatory…
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Ed McGimpsey
Senior Associate, Auckland
Ed specialises in real estate, construction and procurement…
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Elizabeth Rose
Senior Associate, Wellington
Elizabeth specialises in commercial contracting and procurement, with a focus on technology media and telecommunications…
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Emma Geard
Senior Associate, Wellington
Emma specialises in financial services regulation and corporate law. She has experience advising a broad range of financial…
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Emma von Veh
Senior Associate, Wellington
Emma specialises in health, privacy and employment law…
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Erika Hendy
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Erika specialises in health, privacy and employment law...…
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Esther Bennett
Senior Associate, Wellington
Esther specialises in environmental and resource management law, acting for a range of public and private sector clients including…
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Faisal Halabi
Senior Associate, Auckland
Faisal specialises in banking and finance. He has a broad range of experience acting for lenders and borrowers in property finance…
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Holly Hedley
Senior Associate, Wellington
Holly specialises in health, employment and privacy law. Her health expertise includes advising on treatment and consent…
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Jane Maltby
Senior Associate, Wellington
Jane specialises in litigation and dispute resolution.…
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Jenna Silcock
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Jenna specialises in environment and resource management, and local government law. She advises a wide range of local authority…
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Kelly Williams
Senior Associate, Auckland
Kelly advises on a broad range of international and domestic financing transactions representing borrowers and banks…
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Keri Johansson
Senior Associate, Auckland
Keri specialises in IP, technology and media law with a commercial focus. She works closely with media, science and technology…
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Leigh Ziegler
Senior Associate, Auckland
Leigh specialises in resource management, environmental and local government law, with particular experience working on large scale…
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Liam Edginton
Senior Associate, Auckland
Liam specialises in commercial litigation. He has a wide range of experience including having acted in proceedings relating to…
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Libby Cowper
Senior Associate, Wellington
Libby specialises in resource management and Māori law…
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Lorraine Hercus
Senior Associate, Wellington
Lorraine specialises in employment law, health and safety, information law, litigation and dispute resolution…
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Louise Brazier
Senior Associate, Wellington
Louise specialises in construction and commercial property transactions…
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Mark Mulholland
Senior Associate, Wellington
Mark specialises in resource management, environmental, and Māori law. He has a particular focus on the consenting of major energy…
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Mathew Gribben
Senior Associate, Auckland
Mathew specialises in environmental and resource management law and advises on a wide range of resource management, environmental and…
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Matthew Triggs
Senior Associate, Auckland
Matthew specialises in insolvency and enforcement transactions. He also has experience in restructuring, refinancing and secured…
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Morgan Powell
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Morgan specialises in commercial, insurance and leasing disputes. Morgan has acted for a number of insurers arising from the…
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Natalie Summerfield
Senior Associate, Auckland
Natalie specialises in resource management, environmental and local government law. She has represented public and…
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Rebecca Dudley-Cobb
Senior Associate, Wellington
Rebecca specialises in public sector legal support, including public sector contracting and procurement, and health and information law…
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Ryan Ellis
Senior Associate, Auckland
Ryan specialises in corporate and commercial law. He advises clients on a range of matters, including commercial contracts…
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Scott Holdaway
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Scott specialises in property, local government law, and regulatory issues. He acts for various territorial authorities, central…
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Stephanie Snedden
Senior Associate, Wellington
Stephanie advises on the full spectrum of commercial and residential real estate work including acquisitions and disposals…
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Tammy Solanki
Senior Associate, Auckland
Tammy specialises in commercial property law and has experience assisting clients with significant property portfolios. Her primary…
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Tom Montgomerie
Senior Associate, Auckland
Tom specialises in corporate law, with broad experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets…
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Victoria Brunton
Senior Associate, Wellington
Victoria specialises in environment, resource management, natural resources and local government. Victoria's practice also includes…
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Victoria Watt
Senior Associate, Auckland
Victoria specialises in corporate and commercial law, with broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures…
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