Our corporate team comprises highly experienced leading lawyers who have advised New Zealand's largest listed and unlisted corporates for many years. We are trusted advisers to boards, executive teams and inhouse counsel and have expertise across the full spectrum of issues that New Zealand businesses may face. We also regularly advise international clients on their compliance obligations in connection with their investments in New Zealand.
We have extensive knowledge of current and emerging regulatory developments and corporate governance best practice in New Zealand, including how this may compare to international practices and trends. We also regularly engage with New Zealand government bodies and regulators (including the FMA, NZX and Takeovers Panel) in relation to policy issues and contribute to law reform initiatives. We can therefore offer meaningful insights into market practice and horizon scanning and support clients and their boards through an increasingly complex and regulatory landscape.
Our work includes advice on:
- the design and implementation of best practice corporate governance frameworks and procedures for matters such as risk management, regulatory compliance and sustainability and climate change
- market disclosure obligations and insider trading (including related procedures and systems)
- crisis management and other complex / strategic matters considered by boards
- shareholder engagement, including preparation for shareholder meetings, shareholder activism and proposals, and annual reporting
- directors' duties and liabilities (including health and safety obligations) and managing conflicts of interest
- director and senior executive remuneration structuring, including employee share plans and incentive arrangements
- board composition and sub-committees (including charters) and succession planning
