Corporate Advisory
Russell McVeagh's Corporate Advisory Group is widely recognised as the New Zealand market leader and advises on top New Zealand and international deals. Why is the team so successful? It's the ability to assemble a group of specialists to best meet our clients' individual needs. It's also the group's unparalleled dedication to providing top quality advice and getting the job done.
We advise clients on:
- Mergers and Acquisitions, including takeovers and share and asset deals;
- Insolvency and Debt Restructuring and business reorganisations;
- Funds Management;
- Infrastructure and projects, including advising on tendering and construction and preparing and negotiating relevant contracts;
- Public Law and Policy issues;
- Private Equity and Venture Capital, including acquisitions, exits and divestments, financing and fund structuring;
- Capital Markets/Securities Offerings including public listings and public offers of securities (including advising issuers and underwriters);
- Competition and regulatory law, including clearances and authorisations of mergers;
- privatisation and public private partnerships;
- structuring joint ventures and other commercial arrangements;
- Information Technology and E-business;
- Outsourcing;
- investment in New Zealand by overseas entities;
- compliance and corporate governance; and
- general commercial law.
Russell McVeagh acts for New Zealand's leading listed companies, all of the country's retail banks, many of New Zealand's energy companies, numerous multi-national corporations as well as major utilities, infrastructure companies, manufacturers and primary producers.
When managing major projects, the Corporate Advisory Group draws upon the resources of lawyers in other specialty groups such as our Finance, Tax, Employment, Resource Management, Litigation and Property teams, providing a seamless service to our clients.
Recent examples of the Corporate Advisory Group's work include representing:
- Ontrack (New Zealand Railways Corporation) and the Crown on the renegotiation / arbitration of the New Zealand Rail access regime with Toll NZ Consolidated Limited, and the subsequent acquisition of Toll's rail and ferry business by the New Zealand Government.
- British United Provident Association (BUPA) in its acquisition of DCA Agedcare, a leading Australian and New Zealand healthcare business, for AUD$1.225 billion.
- Suncorp-Metway Limited on its AUD$7.9 billion merger with dual listed insurance company Promina Group Limited by way of an Australian scheme of arrangement.
- Auckland International Airport Limited in relation to the amalgamation proposals made by Dubai Aerospace and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
- Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited on potential capital restructure options.
- Infrastructure funds managed by Macquarie Bank in the acquisition of Qualcare Group from certain Ironbridge funds and the substantial follow-on restructure of the existing and acquired assets.
- Tourism Holdings Limited in respect of a proposed takeover by MFS Living & Leisure Limited.
- Guinness Peat Group on its partial takeover of TOWER Limited.
Specialists
Partners
- Chris Bargery
- Pat Bowler
- David Clarke
- Tim Clarke
- James Every-Palmer
- Pip Greenwood
- David Hoare
- Derek Johnston
- Sarah Keene
- Matthew Mallett
- Andrew Peterson
- Graeme Quigley
- Campbell Rose
- Garth Sinclair
- Joe Windmeyer
Associates
Consultants
