Special Counsel, Wellington
Renee Stiles
Contact DETAILS
- Wellington office
- DDI +64 4 498 7308
- M +64 21 722 990
Profile
Renee is a member of our Wellington corporate and commercial team, specialising in information and communication technology, corporate transactions and regulatory compliance, payments, procurement and outsourcing in the financial sector.
Renee has over 10 years TMT experience, including drafting, and negotiating large scale and complex ICT and outsourcing contracts for both public sector and private clients. She is also highly experienced in e-commerce, data licensing, data protection and privacy, intellectual property commercialisation and general corporate and commercial law.
Renee is also an experienced provider of legal advice in respect of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and drafting and negotiation of complex commercial contracts.
In addition, Renee has significant experience advising financial institutions, fintechs and corporates, including in relation to the development of financial applications and payments products and on the outsourcing of systems and services.
Renee has experience in a range of industries including banking, telecommunications, transit, media, financial institutions, energy, government departments and aviation. She has worked with large and small organisations to develop key contractual relationships, commercialise intellectual property and develop customer terms (including online and app terms).
Prior to joining Buddle Findlay in 2014 Renee spent eight years in the commercial advisory group, specialising in corporate and commercial law at another top tier commercial law firm in Wellington.
“They work with our in-house team rather than imposing their view over those of the in-house team. They also try their best to accommodate our needs. Amy Ryburn, Damien Steel-Baker and Renee Stiles have been particularly good to work with.”
The Legal 500 2020
- Recommended as a next generation partner by 'The Legal 500' 2020
- Member of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals
- Associate Chartered Accountant
Experience
Sector / Expertise
Work highlights
Advised Infratil and Brookfield
on their $3.4b acquisition of Vodafone NZ
Acting for CFG
on a large forest portfolio acquisition (subject to regulatory approval)
Advised Infratil
on the sale of Snapper Services Limited
Advisor on venture capital funding rounds
including for IMAGR
Advising the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
on its transactional banking, foreign exchange, payment and card services procurement programme. This was the first time in over 25 years that the government banking services had been put to tender. This project involved working closely with MBIE's Financial Centre of expertise over a three year period from the very early stages of procurement through to execution of 15 contracts with six counterparties
Advising on the syndicated procurement
of national infrastructure platforms across multiple government common capability agreements, including infrastructure as a service, telecommunications as a service and IT managed services
Alternate contacts
Amy Ryburn
Partner, Wellington
Amy specialises in commercial contracting and procurement, with a particular focus on technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), i…
- DDI +64 4 462 0904
- M +64 21 242 5889
Steve Nightingale
Partner, Wellington
Steve specialises in corporate law including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, limited partnership…
- DDI +64 4 498 7312
- M +64 27 668 2832