We act for companies, directors, trustees, executors, beneficiaries, employers and private clients. Our work spans the District Court, the High Court and the appellate courts, the Employment Courts and the Family Court, and arbitrations and mediations throughout New Zealand and the Pacific.

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What we do.

  • Breach of contract, misleading conduct under the Fair Trading Act, professional negligence, guarantees and securities, construction and supply disputes, and claims arising out of failed transactions.  We advise on strategy before proceedings are filed when the decisions that shape a case are usually made.

  • Minority oppression and prejudiced shareholder claims under the Companies Act, deadlock, breach of shareholders' agreements, derivative actions, valuation disputes, and the unwinding of business relationships between people who used to trust each other.

  • Statutory demands and the applications to set them aside, liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings, voidable transaction and insolvent trading claims, and enforcement of judgments.  We provide strategic and realistic commercial advice.

  • Copyright, passing off, breach of confidence and trade mark disputes, including urgent injunctive relief.  Copyright claims often turn on ownership and chain of assignment before they turn on infringement at all; we are experts at navigating those arguments.

  • Division under the Property (Relationships) Act, contracting out agreements and challenges to them, trust-busting under s 44 and s 182, and disputes where relationship property and trust interests overlap.

  • Claims by beneficiaries against trustees, applications for information and accounts, removal and replacement of trustees, sham and alter ego arguments, and claims under the Family Protection Act, the Law Reform (Testamentary Promises) Act and the Property (Relationships) Act.  These are technical disputes with a family sitting behind them.

  • Personal grievances, restraints of trade, confidential information and departing employees, disciplinary and restructuring processes, and urgent applications for interim relief.  We act for employers and employees in some of New Zealand’s most important Employment cases. 

  • We have experience in all forms of alternative dispute resolution including negotiation, arbitration, and mediation. We work closely with leading barristers throughout New Zealand to ensure the best and most cost-effective resolution for you whether in a courtroom or any other room. 

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