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Russell McVeagh lawyers have been named as finalists in several categories at this year's ALB Australasian Law Awards.
Pip Greenwood has been nominated as NZ Dealmaker of the Year. Pip has won this award twice before in 2008 and 2010.
The firm’s Corporate Advisory Group is a finalist for the NZ Deal Team of the Year Award, from a pool of five. Deal teams are judged on the quantity, quality, importance and innovativeness of their deal involvement during calendar year 2011.
The firm has also been nominated for its work on all five of the shortlisted NZ Deal of the Year Award nominations.
In two Australasia wide categories, Russell McVeagh has also been nominated for the Insolvency and Restructuring Deal of the Year (for our work on the Borders/Angus and Robertson restructure) and for Equity Market Deal of the Year (for our work on the Fairfax Media and Trade Me Group IPO).
The award winners will be announced at an event to be held at the Sydney Town Hall on Thursday 24 May.
Click here to read more information about the Awards.
Global Competition Review's GCR 100 has confirmed that Russell McVeagh's competition team has retained Elite status in competition law in New Zealand. The London based research house undertakes a comprehensive annual evaluation to assess the work undertaken by specialist lawyers worldwide. Russell McVeagh's practice, which is led by partners Andrew Peterson and Sarah Keene, has been ranked as Elite (the very top category) for several years in the Global Top 100 Competition practices.
The variety of work undertaken by the team was commented on by the publication which also noted that the team has been at the forefront of proposals to criminalise cartel offences in New Zealand: it submitted responses to the discussion papers and it held the only forum for clients following the release of draft legislation.