Allan Yeoman
Partner, Auckland
Allan is a partner in Buddle Findlay's Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) team. …
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Amy Ryburn
Partner, Wellington
Board of Management
Amy specialises in commercial law. …
Bridie McKinnon
Partner, Wellington
Bridie has over 15 years' experience in a range of litigation matters in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.…
Charlotte von Dadelszen
Partner, Wellington
Board of Management
Charlotte specialises in leasing, construction and land-related property advice. …
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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…
Daniel Kelleher
Partner, Auckland
Daniel has earned his reputation as a leading practitioner in the property sector by developing strong and lasting relationships with…
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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. …
David Randal
Partner, Wellington
David specialises in resource management, environmental and Māori law. …
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David Thomson
Partner, Auckland
David specialises in corporate and commercial law with considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, governance,…
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Grant Dunn
Partner, Auckland
Grant specialises in corporate and commercial law and has over 20 years experience. …
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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…
Hamish Kynaston
Partner, Wellington
Hamish specialises in employment relations, litigation, health law, health and safety, and education…
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
Board of Management
Jan leads the Christchurch banking and financial services team. …
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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. …
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Julia Gabrielle
Partner, Christchurch
Julia is a commercial partner with a focus on a range of property transactions. …
Kelly Paterson
Partner, Christchurch
Kelly specialises in commercial litigation. …
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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…
Luke Sizer
Partner, Auckland
Luke specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration. He regularly acts on matters involving complex corporate fraud, insolvency…
Mark Odlin
Partner, Christchurch
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 has extensive experience in advising public sector bodies on decision-making processes, legislative design, governance…
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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 (includi…
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Olly Peers
Partner, Christchurch
Olly specialises in litigation and dispute resolution. Olly's experience and areas of interest include company law, contract law…
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Paul Beverley
Partner, Wellington
Paul specialises in public law, Māori/Treaty of Waitangi law, Treaty settlements, conservation law and resource management law.…
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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Paula Ormandy
Partner, Auckland
Paula specialises in complex leasing, property development, and high-value portfolio acquisitions and disposals. …
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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…
Philip Wood
Partner, Auckland
Philip specialises in providing commercial, IT, telecommunication, media and television/film sector advice including strategic advice…
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Renee Stiles
Partner, Wellington
Renee is a member of our Wellington corporate and commercial team, specialising in commercial contracting, information and…
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Rupert Rouch
Partner, Wellington
Rupert is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer who advises on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate …
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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…
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 advocacy and commercial litigation, with considerable expertise and experience in…
Susan Rowe
Partner, Christchurch
Susan specialises in litigation, local government, insurance, industrial relations and health and safety. Susan currently advises…
Susie Kilty
Partner, Wellington
Susie specialises in competition, fair trading, overseas investment consents and economic regulation, particularly of infrastructure in…
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Terence Ng
Partner, Auckland
Terence specialises in banking and finance, corporate and commercial, and property law…
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…
Vanessa Evitt
Partner, Auckland
Vanessa specialises in resource management, infrastructure, and environmental law.…
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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…
Anna Parker
Special Counsel, Auckland
Anna specialises in competition and consumer law, economic regulation of infrastructure, and public law…
Bassam Maghzal
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Bassam is a highly driven commercial lawyer specialising in infrastructure and construction projects…
Blake Cescon
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Blake specialises in property, local government and banking law. …
Brannavan Gnanalingam
Special Counsel, Wellington
Brannavan specialises in property, litigation, insolvency and debt recovery. …
Catherine Miller
Special Counsel, Auckland
Catherine specialises in health, education, privacy and commercial law. …
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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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- M +64 21 616 742
Damien Steel-Baker
Special Counsel, Wellington
Damien specialises in technology, media and telecommunications and general commercial law.…
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Fiona Heiford
Special Counsel, Wellington
Fiona specialises in tax with particular expertise in commercial transactions…
Frances Wedde
Special Counsel, Wellington
Frances specialises in the Resource Management Act (RMA) and Māori law…
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Helen Pryde
Special Counsel, Auckland
Helen specialises in health and safety, employment, and insurance.…
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Keri Johansson
Special Counsel, Auckland
Keri specialises in technology, media and privacy law. …
Myles O'Brien
Special Counsel, Auckland
Myles specialises in transactional banking and restructuring. He has extensive experience on corporate transactional banking and…
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…
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…
Ryan Ellis
Special Counsel, Auckland
Ryan specialises in corporate and commercial law. He advises clients on a range of matters, including commercial contracts, procuremen…
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Scott Holdaway
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Scott specialises in property, local government law, and regulatory issues. He acts for various territorial authorities, central…
Shaun Brookes
Special Counsel, Christchurch
Shaun specialises in employment law, industrial relations, human rights, and health and safety…
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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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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- M +64 21 612 810
Alastair Hercus
Consultant, Wellington
Alastair specialises in public and commercial law. …
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David Perry
Consultant, Auckland
David specialises in banking and financial services, and restructuring and insolvency law. …
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- M +64 21 632 268
Holly Hedley
Consultant, Wellington
Holly specialises in health, employment and privacy law. …
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Mel Easton
Consultant, Auckland
Mel specialises in local government, property and construction law…
- DDI +64 9 358 7038
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Peter Owles
Consultant, Auckland
Peter is an expert in all aspects of banking and financial services law, with over 30 years' experience…
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Shane Johnstone
Consultant, Auckland
Shane has over 30 years' experience in banking, finance, structured finance (including securitisations) and securities law. …
Simon Jensen
Consultant, Auckland
Simon specialises in financial sector regulation, payments and clearing systems, and projects and advice for financial institutions…
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. …
Alex Chapman
Senior Associate, Wellington
Alex specialises in commercial contracting with a focus on technology, privacy and data protection and intellectual property.…
Amy Goatley
Senior Associate, Auckland
Amy specialises in corporate and commercial law with particular experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures…
Amy Watson
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Amy specialises in property, public and local government law. …
Andrew Morris
Senior Associate, Auckland
Andrew specialises in banking and finance and has a broad range of experience across domestic and international financing transactions.…
Andrew Suggate
Senior Associate, Auckland
Andrew specialises in financial services law.…
Andy Dysart
Senior Associate, Auckland
Andy specialises in commercial contracting with specific expertise in technology procurement.…
Anna Muru Paenga
Senior Associate, Wellington
Anna specialises in commercial property law. She advises on Māori land issues, leasing (both commercial and retail), property…
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Anna Wishart
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Anna specialises in trust, private client, commercial and corporate law.…
Caitlin Olsen
Senior Associate, Wellington
Caitlin specialises in commercial property and construction law.…
Calina Tataru
Senior Associate, Auckland
Calina specialises in general commercial litigation, insolvency and contractual and leasing disputes.…
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Celeste Brown
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Celeste specialises in corporate and commercial law and has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance…
Celia Olds
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Celia specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution…
Cerridwen Bulow
Senior Associate, Wellington
Cerridwen specialises in resource management, environmental and Māori law. She advises on a range of resource management matters…
Charlotte Jones
Senior Associate, Auckland
Charlotte specialises in tax for corporate transactions...…
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Colleen Columbus
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Colleen advises domestic and international clients on a range of corporate and commercial matters including property acquisitions and d…
Cora Morrison
Senior Associate, Auckland
Cora specialises in complex commercial and civil litigation. …
Danielle Brittain
Senior Associate, Auckland
Danielle specialises in banking and finance law and has a broad range of experience across domestic and international financing transac…
Danielle Elley
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Danielle specialises in general corporate and commercial law, commercial and residential property, and trust law…
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…
Ed McGimpsey
Senior Associate, Auckland
Ed specialises in real estate, construction and procurement…
Eleanor Mishra
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Eleanor specialises in civil litigation and employment …
Elizabeth Rose
Senior Associate, Wellington
Elizabeth specialises in commercial contracting and procurement, with a focus on technology media and telecommunications…
Emma von Veh
Senior Associate, Wellington
Emma specialises in health, privacy and employment law…
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…
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…
Graeme Dill-Russell
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Graeme specialises in litigation and dispute resolution…
Hannah Lee
Senior Associate, Wellington
Hannah specialises in overseas investment, public and administrative law, and consumer law, and advises both private and public sector …
Jacey McGrath
Senior Associate, Wellington
Jacey specialises in commercial litigation and insolvency. She has acted for private and public sector clients on a range of matters i…
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Jane Maltby
Senior Associate, Wellington
Jane specialises in litigation and dispute resolution…
Jenna Silcock
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Jenna specialises in environment and resource management, and local government law. …
Jessica Taylor
Senior Associate, Wellington
Jessica specialises in employment, health and safety, and dispute resolution…
Kelly Williams
Senior Associate, Auckland
Kelly advises on a broad range of international and domestic financing transactions representing borrowers and banks…
Leigh Ziegler
Senior Associate, Auckland
Leigh specialises in resource management, environmental and local government law, with particular experience working on large scale…
Libby Cowper
Senior Associate, Wellington
Libby specialises in resource management and Māori law…
Lisa Bazalo
Senior Associate, Auckland
Lisa is a member of the Auckland environmental and resource management team. Lisa has extensive experience promoting…
Lorraine Hercus
Senior Associate, Wellington
Lorraine specialises in employment law, health and safety, information law, litigation and dispute resolution…
Louise Brazier
Senior Associate, Wellington
Louise specialises in construction and commercial property transactions…
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Louise Robertson
Senior Associate, Wellington
Louise specialises in employment and industrial relations, privacy and official information, litigation and dispute resolution…
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Mace Gorringe
Senior Associate, Auckland
Mace specialises in restructuring, corporate rescue, insolvency and general finance. …
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…
Mathew Gribben
Senior Associate, Auckland
Mathew specialises in environmental and resource management law and advises on a wide range of resource management, environmental and…
Matthew Triggs
Senior Associate, Auckland
Matthew specialises in insolvency and enforcement transactions. He also has experience in restructuring, refinancing and secured…
Natalie Summerfield
Senior Associate, Auckland
Natalie specialises in resource management, environmental and local government law. She has represented public and…
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Nick Hume
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Nick specialises in corporate and commercial law and in particular, commercial property and property development…
Rebecca Cresswell
Senior Associate, Christchurch
Rebecca specialises in general commercial, corporate and property law.…
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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…
Stephanie Snedden
Senior Associate, Wellington
Stephanie advises on the full spectrum of commercial and residential real estate work including acquisitions and disposals…
Syavie Ghamry
Senior Associate, Auckland
Syavie specialises in corporate law, particularly in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, equity capital raising and general…
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Tasha Ioelu
Senior Associate, Auckland
Tasha specialises in employment and privacy. She also has broader experience in dispute resolution.…
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Tom Montgomerie
Senior Associate, Auckland
Tom specialises in corporate law, with broad experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets…
Victoria Brunton
Senior Associate, Wellington
Victoria specialises in environment, resource management, natural resources and local government. Victoria's practice also includes…
Victoria Stillwell
Senior Associate, Auckland
Victoria specialises in corporate and commercial law, with broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures…
William Hunnam
Senior Associate, Auckland
Will specialises in banking and finance with particular expertise in derivatives and securities financing…