I have been recognised as a leading dealmaker in New Zealand for a number of years, reflecting my highly sought after M&A skills, both within New Zealand and from international clients.

My international experience is outstanding – I spent 10+ years in New York and London, including 7.5 years with premier US law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and working for Credit Suisse. I was admitted to the New York Bar in 2002 and have an MBA in finance from London Business School.

With an extensive international and domestic profile, I am regularly invited to speak at international conferences on M&A. I am also an Officer of the International Bar Association and Chair of the board of Athletics New Zealand, the governing body for athletics in NZ and a member of the NZ Olympic Committee. I am also a former Olympic athletic, having competed at the 1992 Olympics.

I also sit on the board of legal technology and AI innovator McCarthyFinch. McCarthyFinch is advancing machine learning to help industry leaders reimagine their businesses and seize new opportunities. Its artificial intelligence engine, Author, has been purpose built to correlate the unstructured language of law, giving lawyers exponential virtualised problem-solving capabilities.

Career highlights

• TOMRA – Purchase of BBC Technologies Advised TOMRA on its $67m acquisition of BBC Technologies, a leading manufacturer of Blueberry sorting equipment.
• TOMRA Systems ASA Acted for the purchaser of Compac Holdings on the acquisition of 100 per cent of its share capital from the founder and a number of other shareholders, assisting in all aspects of the transaction including the sale documentation and post-completion work.
• Rangatira Limited Acted for Rangatira Limited in their capacity as owner of approximately one third of the share capital of craft beer manufacturer Tuatara Brewing Company Limited on its sale to DB Breweries Limited who acquired 100 per cent of the company.
• Tegel Group Holdings Limited Part of the team that advised Affinity Equity Partners (majority shareholder) and Tegel Group Holdings Limited (as issuer) on the IPO of Tegel Foods, New Zealand’s largest vertically integrated poultry producer.

• Chair, Athletics New Zealand
• Officer, Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee, International Bar Association (IBA)
• FINSIA – AFin
• INFINZ – CFIP
• Institute of Directors (N.Z.) – MInstD
• Institute of Directors (U.K.)

• International Bar Association