Ture Pakihi/ Kaupapa Pakihi
Corporate & Commercial Law is a major part of Auld Brewer Mazengarb & McEwen’s practice.
Our clients include major corporates and institutions as well as a large number of private companies.
Areas of Advice
- Corporate governance and directors’ duties (including conflict of interest issues, governance issue, board protocols and decision-making procedures)
- Company constitution issues (including the balance between shareholders’ and directors’ powers)
- Shareholder concerns (including terms of issue of shares, shareholding rights and remedies, distributions to shareholders and satisfying the solvency test)
- Shareholder relationship structures (including shareholder agreements, different classes of shares and special and constitutionally entrenched rights)
- Wide range of commercial contracts
- Joint venture agreements
- Partnership agreements
- Business structuring – choice of business vehicle, establishing and modifying business structures, amalgamations and liquidations and other restructurings
- Statutory compliance – specific and systematic
- Protecting intellectual property (including trade mark and copyright protection)
- Climate change and the Emissions Trading Scheme
Highlights of Our Work
- Acting on the establishment of a Public Health Organisation, involving various sector groups
- Preparing compliance systems for a bank and other major corporates
- Advising on the restructuring (finance and ownership) of a start-up dairy company
- Tenders and the resulting agreements for infrastructure construction
- Acting for a public corporation listed on the Malaysia Stock Exchange on the purchase of a major engineering company in New Zealand
- Acting on the sale of a major group of companies involved in the petro chemical sector both in New Zealand and Australia, to a consortium of overseas buyers
- Advising on the structural aspects of a joint venture between two major health providers contracting with a DHB including preparation of purpose drafted JV Constitution and Shareholders Agreement
- Advising a Treaty Settlement recipient on property/land bank matters relating to assets to be received as part of a settlement package
- Acting for creditors in a major insolvency
- Acting for a bank on the purchase of a substantial loan book from a financial institution
- Acting for a bank on the restructuring of its ownership
