Partner, Auckland
National Chair
Sherridan Cook
Contact
- Auckland office
- DDI +64 9 357 1858
- M +64 27 545 9768
Profile
Sherridan specialises in advocacy and commercial litigation, with considerable expertise and experience in:
- Employment and health and safety (including privacy and human rights)
- Intellectual property disputes, including trade mark and copyright disputes
- Other commercial litigation, particularly property and leasehold disputes, contractual and company related disputes and regulatory litigation.
Sherridan has appeared on numerous occasions in the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court, in the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) Hearings Office, and in the District Court, High Court and appellate courts, and at arbitrations and mediations.
Sherridan is also 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).
"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
"'Key contact’ Sherridan Cook, who spearheads the Auckland based practice, has considerable experience in confidentiality and restraint of trade disputes"
Legal 500
- Sherridan is listed as a 'leading partner' for labour and employment by Legal 500, a 'leading individual' for employment by Chambers, and 'bronze' for IP enforcement and litigation by WTR 1000
- Author of 'Personal Grievances' part of LexisNexis’ Employment Law collection, and Consultant Editor for 'Health and Safety Law Made Easy' and 'Employment Law Made Easy' (LexisNexis)
- Member of Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)
- Member of International Trade Mark Association (INTA)
Experience
Sector / Expertise
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Employment
- Health and safety
- Intellectual property
- Trade marks
- Privacy and cyber security
- Property
- Government
- Official information
- Agribusiness, horticulture and forestry
- Biotechnology and therapeutic products
- Education
- Health
- Technology, media and telecommunications
- Transport
International
Work highlights
Acting on numerous contentious employment actions for private and public sector clients
including arising out of personal grievances, restraint of trade and confidentiality disputes and change management processes
Advising various public and private sector clients
in their industrial relations strategies when bargaining with unions, including leading the bargaining team
Advising on the employment aspects
of numerous M&A transactions
Acting for the firm's major Mānuka honey portfolio client, the UMF Honey Association
in trade mark enforcement actions in the IPONZ Hearings Office, the High Court and the Court of Appeal
Acting for clients on numerous trade mark actions
including defending oppositions to pending trade mark registrations, opposing pending trade mark registrations and applying for the invalidity and non-use of existing registrations
Acting for tenants of buildings in Auckland's Quay Park
in ground rent review arbitrations against Ngati Whatua O Orakei Maori Trust Board