Mergers and acquisitions

Our unmatched expertise and experience advising on most of the key private and public M&A matters in New Zealand enables us to be at the forefront of innovation, issues and market practice developments, and to deliver strategically-focused, results-orientated advice as part of our clients' broader adviser teams.

Our corporate team is regularly involved in New Zealand's highest profile public and private M&A transactions. We have a track record of being a key and trusted member of our clients' core adviser team, including helping deliver execution certainty through actively assisting with managing transaction risks and the broader transaction process. We pride ourselves as having an innovative, proactive, commercial and results-orientated approach to advising on a broad range of M&A transactions and related matters.

Working closely with our international and domestic clients, including some of the world's largest private equity and infrastructure funds, large multinational companies and some of New Zealand's largest corporates and other organisations, provides us with unparalleled insights into M&A developments, trends and issues, as well as significant expertise and experience advising across a wide range of sectors and industries, including technology, telecommunications, energy and resources, infrastructure and utilities, transportation, retail, agriculture and building and materials.

Our specialist teams also provide our clients with the necessary support, and relevant expertise and experience on their M&A transactions. This includes our competition law and OIO experts, as well as our banking and finance, litigation, employment, property, resource management, tax, consumer, regulatory and compliance and intellectual property teams.

In addition to regularly advising on some of the largest private and public M&A matters in New Zealand, we appreciate the importance of being able to scale our service offering to assist not only our largest clients, but also those smaller clients that are undertaking key transformation transactions and who require our expert advice.

Market recognition

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 Corporate and M&A, 'Tier 1'.

Chambers Asia Pacific 2025 Corporate/Commercial, 'Band 1'.

IFLR1000 2024 M&A, 'Tier 1'.

Clients say the team is a "Well established NZ practice. Strong oil and gas expertise. Knowledgeable, user friendly and always delivers."

"Bell Gully provides excellent legal services that go beyond legal advice. They work hard to understand the business of their clients in order to support achieving key commercial outcomes. The lawyers are willing to express their opinions and judgements beyond pure legal advice."