Bell Gully news

Bell Gully appoints new partners and senior associates
Two new partners and eight senior associates have been appointed to leading New Zealand law firm Bell Gully.

Bell Gully tops global guide law firm rankings
Bell Gully has topped the New Zealand law firm rankings for a consecutive year in a leading international legal publication. The just released 2005/06 Chambers Global Guide shows Bell Gully has achieved the most No.1 ranked practice areas and ranked partners among the New Zealand law firms listed. It is the second year that the firm has led the field in results published by the UK-based independent researcher.

Bell Gully has a No.1 ranking in four of the five practice areas covered by Chambers Global:

• banking and finance;
• corporate/M&A;
• dispute resolution; and
• tax.

Bell Gully is also the only New Zealand firm to receive a top tier ranking in the corporate/M&A practice area.

Employee surveillance: a new age in hi-tech spying
Employers have been monitoring their staff since time immemorial. What is changing is the tools they use to do it. The days of punch time clocks are gone - today the employer has access to a bewildering range of technology to spy on workers.

Bell Gully tops M&A rankings for third successive year
Bell Gully has been named New Zealand 's leading mergers and acquisitions law firm for the third consecutive year. Thomson Financial figures just released show that in 2005 Bell Gully completed 52 deals worth in excess of US$7.5 billion. Thomson's figures also reveal that while total M&A deal value in Australasia declined slightly by 0.3% the number of deals in the region went up 3.1%.

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Other useful articles and publications from Bell Gully.

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