• Advising a multi-national manufacturing company on all its domestic employment matters, including a large scale restructure
• Advising one of New Zealand’s largest Universities with respect to employment and health and safety advice and training
• Representing a New Zealand technology development company, and its senior executives, in High Court proceedings alleging breach of restraint of trade and confidentiality/IP rights
• Representing sportspeople with respect to contractual, selection and disciplinary matters (including international rugby players before IRB and SANZAR judicial hearings)
• Providing advice to a large energy sector company in respect of the implementation of a comprehensive KiwiSaver and superannuation policy
• Acting as co-counsel to a leading New Zealand corporate in respect of a claim for in excess of $5m in the Employment Court
• Providing commercial health and safety advice to a solid energy sector client in respect of its third party contractual arrangements
• Acting for a number of professional services firms in relation to a range of employment related matters, including personal grievances, partnership disputes, and allegations of improper moonlighting, theft of intellectual property and breach of restraints of trade

White Collar

Aaron is the convenor of the firm's white collar practice group, and regularly advises executives and corporations with respect to government investigations and prosecutions. Examples include:

• Advising company directors and corporations involved in investigations and prosecutions by the Police, Serious Fraud Office, Inland Revenue Department (IRD) and the Companies Office National Enforcement Unit (NEU)
• Working with US counsel to represent a New Zealand based defendant in the major US cartel prosecution United States Department of Justice v Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group et al
• Advising a major international financial institution in respect of a suspected instance of "rogue trading'
• Advising a major New Zealand financial institution with respect to its obligations and potential liability under anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) law
• Defending (with Paul Davison QC) a solicitor charged with money laundering offences under the Financial Transactions Reporting Act
• Defending transport sector clients in relation to criminal prosecutions taken by New Zealand Customs and the Police for alleged breaches of the Customs and Excise Act and the Land Transport Act
• Defending a maritime captain in a prosecution by the Department of Labour for health and safety violations

Commercial Litigation and other matters

• Acting as counsel for the former Managing Director of Sensation Yachts Limited in High Court litigation against the company
• Acting at external general counsel, to NavSec International, a New Zealand based maritime security firm
• Appearing as junior counsel (with Howard Keyte QC) in respect of litigation involving the validation of void securities issued in breach of exemption notices under the Securities Act
• Acting for former MP, Donna Awatere Huata in her High Court litigation (and subsequent appeals) against the ACT Political Party over her status as an MP under the electoral integrity provisions of the Electoral Act (including appearing as co-counsel in the first case heard by the New Zealand Supreme Court)
• Appearing as counsel (with Richard Craddock QC) in judicial review proceedings in the High Court, in relation to a challenge to a decision of the New Zealand Stock Exchange Takeover's Panel
• Appearing as counsel (with Paul Davison QC) in respect of High Court litigation to determine matters of governance in respect of the holdings of a major Maori iwi following their Treaty settlement with the Crown
• Appearing as counsel (with CJ Allan (now Justice Allan)) in a High Court trial for a major New Zealand telecommunications company regarding a dispute over the commercial provision of Internet bandwidth
• Appearing as counsel at coronial inquests, including with respect to medico-legal matters

Seminars and publications

• RadioLive interview "A clamp-down on identity fraud" - 25 August 2010
  Aaron Lloyd speaks to Marcus Lush, RadioLive Host
• NZLawyer magazine 'Is the system broken' - April 2010
  Aaron Lloyd and Bridget Smith discuss the Government’s recent review of the ‘personal grievance’ regime in the Employment Relations Act 2000
• Investigating and managing employee and management fraud - March 2010
  Conference workshop Brightstar HR/IR Conference
• NZLaywer magazine 'Don’t believe everything you hear…' - February 2010
  Aaron Lloyd and Bridget Smith review a NZPA article
• TVNZ interview on 'Criminalisation of Cartel Conduct' - January 2010
  Aaron Lloyd talks to Corin Dann, host of TVNZ NZI Business programme
• NZ wakes up to anti-money laundering risks - you should too - August 2009
  Aaron Lloyd and Lloyd Kavanagh explain what it will mean for New Zealand (NZLawyer Article Issue 118)
• TV3 interview on 'Financial Reform Aims to bring NZ in line with International Standards' - July 2009
  Aaron Lloyd talks to Michael Wilson about the AML/CFT bill
• The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Bill - July 2009 
  Conference paper to Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS)
• Transparency International 2009 Report into Combating Bribery of Foreign Officials - July 2009
  Minter Ellison contributed to New Zealand chapter of this OECD report
• Keeping Investigations on the Straight and Narrow - 23 June 2009
  Presentation to the Certified Fraud Examiners Group Auckland
• Employment Issues in Insolvency - May 2009
  Presentation to INSOL
• Privacy versus the media and the state the Independent - April 2009
  Privacy Article written for the Independent businessday publication
• Employment issues in an economic downturn - April 2009
  Aaron Lloyd, Jennifer Mills and Rochelle Price look at what this means
• Employment Law in a Suspected Fraud Scenario - April 2009
  Conference paper to the Conferenz Inaugural Corporate Fraud Conference
• You are not alone: Managing the battle in the war against sickies - March 2009
  Conference paper to the Bright Star HR/IR Conference
• OSH Law Update for Retirement Villages and Aged Care Facilities - February 2009
  Conference paper