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Advising one of the shareholders of Flavoured Beverages Group Holdings Limited (holding company of the Independent Liquor Group) in the sale of 100% of the shares in Flavoured Beverages to the Asahi Group for a purchase price in the order of $1.5 billion
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Advising Agria Corporation and New Hope Group Co., Limited on Agria (Singapore) Pte Limited's NZ$141,000,000 partial takeover of PGG Wrightson Limited
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Advising the shareholders of Independent Liquor (NZ) Limited on the sale of 100% of the shares in the company to Pacific Equity Partners and CCMP Capital Asia Pte Limited. This transaction was a finalist in the 2007 Australasian Legal Awards as "NZ Deal of the Year"
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Advising Canadian Helicopters Limited on its NZ$160 million acquisition of Helicopters (NZ) Limited
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Advising Next Capital on its acquisition of the Nutra-Life business in Australia and New Zealand
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Advising Next Capital on its acquisition of Healtheries of New Zealand
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Advising Next Capital on its $172million acquisition of Hirepool
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Advising Most Excellent Holdings Ltd on the sale of Hubco Automotive Ltd
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Advising Synlait Milk Limited in its capital raising project, involving the investment of $82 million by Bright Dairy
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Advising Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA on its $1.015 billion acquisition of Carter Holt Harvey's tissue business
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Advising Anchorage Capital Partners Pty Ltd on its acquisition of Burger King
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Advising New Zealand Post Limited on its joint venture with DHL and Deutsche Post Beteiligungen GMBH in relation to its express and logistics business
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Advised Publishing and Broadcasting Limited on NZ law aspects of its $A4.5 billion deal with CVC in relation to its media assets
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Advised AMP on corporate law issues relating to its acquisition of the $172m purchase of the Lion Nathan site in Auckland
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Advised Heinz Wattie's on its acquisition of La Bonne Cuisine
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Advised Pencarrow Private Equity on its acquisition of B J Ball
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Advised a significant foreign investor in its acquisition of 19.9% of AMP Office Trust for $178m and 50% of the management company of AMP Office Trust
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Advised a significant foreign investor in its acquisition of 50% of Great Northern Developments Limited (AMP's vehicle to develop the Lion Nathan site in Newmarket)
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Advising Goldman Sachs JBWere on its underwriting of SKYCITY Entertainment Group's capital raising of $185 million
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Advising Goldman Sachs JBWere on the New Zealand law aspects of the sale of its private wealth management business to BNZ and NAB
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Advising Phil and Teds Most Excellent Buggy Company Limited on its acquisition of Mountain Buggy from the receivers of that business
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Advising the major shareholders of The New Zealand Wine Fund Limited on the sale of the shares in that company to a US investor
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Advising the major shareholders of the management company of Calan Healthcare Properties Limited on ING Property Trust's takeover offer for Calan Healthcare and the sale of the management company to ING Property Trust
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Advising a private equity player on its bid for New Zealand Dairy Foods
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Advising a private equity player on its bid for Kathmandu
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Advising Kingett Mitchell on the sale of its business to Golders Associates
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Advised New Zealand Post Limited on its acquisition of AirPost Limited
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Advising Express Couriers Limited on its acquisition of Roadstar Transport Limited and Robertson Transport Limited
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Advised New Zealand Group Holdings Limited on a restructuring and sale of a majority stake to AMP Funds managed by Pencarrow Private Equity
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Advising New Zealand Group Holdings Limited on the acquisition of Todd & Pollock
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Advising New Zealand Post Limited and Datamail Limited on the acquisition of Moore Gallagher
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Advised the shareholders of Phil and Teds Most Excellent Buggy Company Limited on the sale of a minority interest to AMP Funds managed by Pencarrow Private Equity
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Advising New Zealand Post Limited on its bid for the Express Freight Services Division of Freightways Limited, the acquisition of its minority shareholding in RD1.com and subsequent sale, the acquisition of XP Group, the acquisition of Phoenix Parcels, the acquisition of Ansett Express, its investment in Message Media Limited and subsequent buy-out of the company, its joint venture with Blue Star to form Books & More and the subsequent sale of interests in that joint venture
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Advised Most Excellent Holdings on its acquisition of Hubco Limited in Christchurch
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Advising Southern Cross Healthcare on the acquisition of Aetna Health NZ, Auckland Surgical Centre and various joint ventures
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Advised the Receivers of the Central North Island Forestry Partnership in respect of the sale of the forestry assets to Harvard Management Company (NZ's largest receivership sale) - assets sold valued in the region of $820 million
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Advised Honey NZ on its acquisition of Beesonline
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Advised the New Zealand Dairy Board and Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited on issues surrounding the formation of Fonterra
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Co-ordinated a worldwide review of all of the New Zealand Dairy Board's and its subsidiaries businesses to identify risks on the formation of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and advising on how best to manage those risks
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Co-ordinated the necessary foreign antitrust law review and clearances needed for the formation of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited
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Advised the New Zealand Dairy Board on New Zealand law aspects and provided a legal overview in relation to its acquisition in 2000 of a shareholding in Bonlac Foods Limited
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Advised Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited on New Zealand law aspects of its restructuring in 2002 of the Australian Food Holdings Limited group including obtaining necessary New Zealand regulatory consents
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Advised Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited in 2003 on aspects of its Australasian investments including Bonlac Foods
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Advised Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited on a number of foreign investments, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions
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Advised Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited in 2004 on its capital notes trading facility
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Advised Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited on various securities law issues
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Advised the New Zealand Dairy Board on numerous offshore joint ventures, acquisitions and divestments
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Acting for Brierley Investments Limited on the sale of its shareholding in the NZ News Group
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Acting for the New Zealand Railways Corporation in the sale of its passenger business group
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Acting for Stagecoach Holdings Plc in its acquisition of shares of Wellington City Transport Limited
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Acting for Allflex New Zealand Limited in the sale of its animal health food business to Nestlé New Zealand Limited
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Acting for the Dow Chemical Company on the sale of its shares in Transpak Packaging Limited to Containers Packaging Limited
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Advising Serco Group Plc on the sale of its shareholding in Serco Group NZ Limited to management
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Acting for the Taupo District Council on the sale of its shares in Taupo Electricity Limited and Taupo Generation Limited
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Advising Schroder Capital Partners on the acquisition of the business of Mainguard Packaging
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Assisting Stagecoach NZ on its acquisition of the Yellow Bus Company
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Advised the New Zealand Dairy Board , Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and New Zealand Post Limited on directors duties and general corporate law matters
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Provided independent advice to various boards of directors on corporate governance issues
Former Member, Subcommittee of the Legal Education Committee of the New Zealand Law Society
