NEW ZEALAND Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Briar Shaw, Julia MacGibbon, Kate Hatwell, Tina Liu, Jessica Phillips and Natalie Foster Tompkins Wake
Tompkins Wake is one of New Zealand’s leading full- service commercial law firms, known as “the law firm at the centre of New Zealand’s economic and com - mercial heartland”. Located in Hamilton, Auckland, Rotorua and Tauranga with more than 200 staff (in - cluding 29 partners and approximately 120 lawyers), the firm is globally connected as the New Zealand member of elite global law network MultiLaw, with al - liances in over 100 countries. The firm advises major businesses, iwi organisations, infrastructure provid -
ers and public sector bodies across corporate and commercial, banking and finance, property, con - struction, employment, dispute resolution, environ - ment, and Māori business law, and regularly advises foreign investors entering New Zealand, including on Overseas Investment Office approvals. Recent work includes advising Grant Thornton New Zealand Ltd on a strategically significant and highly complex cross-border transaction, supporting its agreement to join the Grant Thornton Advisors global platform.
Authors
Briar Shaw is a senior associate in Tompkins Wake’s commercial prop - erty team. She specialises in com - mercial property and commercial leasing transactions, overseas investment and large rural transac -
Kate Hatwell is a partner in Tompkins Wake’s property team, specialising in property and local government law, with extensive experience in leasing
(retail, commercial and industrial), commercial property transactions (sales and acquisitions) and development (develop - ment agreements, mixed-use and large-scale developments). She acts for private and public sector clients across the retail, commercial, office, industrial and residential property sectors. Kate has practised law since 2004, joining Tompkins Wake in 2013 and becoming a partner in 2018. Of Ngāti Maniapoto descent, she is deputy chair and trustee of the South Waikato Investment Fund Trust.
tions, assisting both corporate and private clients in all aspects of property transactions. Briar joined Tompkins Wake in 2017 as a graduate and has since assisted the firm’s commercial property, corporate, resource management and property teams, develop - ing a broad range of knowledge across property and real estate law.
Julia MacGibbon is a senior associ - ate in Tompkins Wake’s Auckland- based employment team and an experienced litigator, having assisted both local and international clients with all aspects of dispute resolution
Tina Liu is a partner at Tompkins Wake and leads the firm’s life science, biotechnology and food and beverage practice groups. Her expertise encompasses a wide range of legal areas, including commercial con -
in health and safety and employment matters. She regularly advises clients on Holidays Act 2003 issues and audits, disciplinary processes and organisational restructuring, and her experience extends to acting as an independent investigator. Before joining the firm, Julia spent close to a decade at a leading international law firm, where she built a strong practice in employment and workplace health and safety.
tracts, complex regulatory matters and substantial projects within these sectors. She regularly advises global and local clients on all aspects of the sale, distribution and marketing of innovative therapeutic and food and beverage products, including product categorisation, pre-market approval, advertising, pharmacovigilance, licensing, commercialisation, data protection and joint ventures. Tina has negoti -
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