Partner, Auckland
Board of Management
Sherridan Cook
Contact
- Auckland office
- DDI +64 9 357 1858
- M +64 27 545 9768
Profile
Sherridan specialises in employment, industrial relations and health and safety as well as litigation and dispute resolution.
Sherridan advises a wide range of private and public sector clients across the full ambit of employment and health and safety issues. He has considerable strength in industrial relations and employment related litigation, including confidentiality and restraint of trade disputes.
Sherridan has particular expertise in property and construction disputes, including Construction Contracts Act adjudications, leasehold disputes and rent reviews, as well as contractual, company and intellectual property disputes and judicial review.
Sherridan regularly appears in the Employment Relations Authority, the Employment Court, the High Court and appellate courts, and at arbitrations and mediations.
Sherridan has been admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (2002) and is a qualified Solicitor-Advocate of the Higher Courts of England and Wales (2003).
Sherridan is the consulting editor of the Lexis Nexis publication Health and Safety Law Made Easy, second edition - A comprehensive guide to New Zealand's health and safety scheme.
"Respected by sources for the breadth of his employment practice."
Chambers and Partners
Sherridan "is a ready sounding board, and gives very clear advice around difficult and challenging employment and contractor relationships”
Chambers and Partners
- Member of HRINZ (Human Resources Institute of New Zealand)
- Member of the New Zealand Society of Construction Law and NZILA
Experience
Sector / Expertise
- Administrative law, consultation and judicial review
- Agribusiness, horticulture and forestry
- Airports and ports
- Biotechnology and life sciences
- Construction and projects
- Early stage and high growth companies
- Education
- Employment
- Entertainment, film and television
- Food and beverage
- Health and safety
- Intellectual property
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Official information law
- Privacy and data protection
- Radio spectrum and telecommunications
- Regulatory and investigations
- Technology, media and telecommunications
- Transport
Work highlights
Acting for Unitec Institute of Technology and Manukau Institute of Technology
providing strategic industrial relations advice during bargaining, strikes and lock-outs and union related issues
Acting for Unitec, Northtec, Wintec, WITT, Whitireia and BOPP
in their multi-employer bargaining with the Tertiary Education Union
Acting for Precision Tracking
(a GPS technology company) in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court
Advising Steelpipe NZ
in an unjustified dismissal claim brought by an employee
Advising a multinational oil company
on all aspects of a major organisational change project throughout New Zealand
Acting for HIH Global, the owners of the BNZ and GE buildings in Auckland's Quay Park
in ground rent review arbitrations against Ngati Whatua O Orakei Maori Trust Board.
Alternate contacts
Peter Chemis
Partner, Wellington
Peter specialises in employment law, industrial relations and related areas, and leads Buddle Findlay’s national employment team…
- DDI +64 4 498 7339
- M +64 27 444 6619
Hamish Kynaston
Partner, Wellington
Hamish specialises in employment relations, litigation, health law, health and safety, and education…
- DDI +64 4 462 0439
- M +64 21 279 2147