NEW ZEALAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Deemple Budhia, Ling Yan Pang, Fred Ward and Matt Kersey, Russell McVeagh
Russell McVeagh is a premier law firm in New Zealand, employing approximately 350 staff and partners across its Auckland and Welling - ton offices, and is expanding to Te Waipounamu South Island with the opening of a Queenstown office in 2025. The firm operates on the cutting edge of legal practice and boasts award-winning lawyers who are internationally recognised for their thought-leadership, depth of experience and ability to translate complex legal issues into client success stories. Specialties include banking and finance, corporate and commer - cial, competition/antitrust, employment, health
and safety, environment and resource manage - ment (including energy), litigation, restructuring and insolvency, property and construction, tax, technology and digital, and public law and reg - ulation. The banking and finance team advises local market participants, inbound lenders and investors, and inbound financial service provid - ers, and has significant experience advising on leveraged and other acquisition financing, take - over finance, securitisations and repackaging transactions, structured derivatives, and project and asset finance.
Authors
Deemple Budhia is a partner with Russell McVeagh. Her key practice areas are securitisation; debt capital markets; banking and finance (including derivatives); and financial
Ling Yan Pang is a senior associate in Russell McVeagh’s banking and finance group. She
returned to Russell McVeagh from the structured finance group at Linklaters in London. Her practice focuses on structured finance and capital markets, and she also advises on financial markets regulation and derivatives. Ling Yan’s recent experience includes securitisations and listed debt and covered bonds programmes.
markets regulation, including bank regulation. Deemple is a member of the New Zealand sub-committee for the Australian Securitisation Forum, and chairs the NZ Markets Disciplinary Tribunal (NZMDT), an independent regulatory body that ensures that the integrity of the country’s markets is maintained through determining whether an issuer or market participant has breached NZX’s market rules.
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