Phil co-heads Bell Gully's national competition law practice. He is an extremely experienced competition lawyer, who has been involved in the competition law aspects of many leading New Zealand corporate transactions over the past 20 years.

Phil's work has included mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restrictive trade practices and corporate restructurings. He regularly represents clients before competition bodies such as the Commerce Commission and has forged long-standing relationships as a trusted advisor to major companies such as Air New Zealand.

Phil features in Chambers Global 2011 as a leading individual in competition law, who "stands out for his competition law expertise", and in previous editions is "highly recommended for his strong intellect across the domain" and described as "experienced and measured".

The Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers, PLC Which Lawyer?, Who's Who Legal 2011 and Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2011 all recognise him as a leading individual in the competition field and Global Competition Review describes him as "very experienced" with "good judgment".

 

Qualifications

LLB, University of Canterbury

Admitted

1971 New Zealand

Publications

Contact

Email: Phil Taylor

DDI: 64 9 916 8940

Mobile: 64 21 994 216

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Areas of Expertise

Recent Work

Carter Holt Harvey sale of forestry interests
Advised Rank Group's subsidiary, Carter Holt Harvey, a New Zealand-based forest products company and also New Zealand's largest forest owner, on the competition aspects of the sale of its forestry business comprising substantially all of its forestry interests including approximately 260,000 hectares of freehold and non-freehold forestry estate, to US-based forestry manager Hancock Natural Resource Group Inc. for in excess of NZ$1.5 billion.

Air New Zealand
Advised Air New Zealand on the proposed codeshare arrangement between Air New Zealand Limited and Qantas Airways Limited.

Pernod Ricard
We successfully assisted Pernod Ricard in an investigation by the Commerce Commission into whether or not it could retain a number of key brands acquired in its acquisition of Allied Domecq plc. The brands had previously been the subject of a divestment undertaking.