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Great deals

Award winning deals

Our client:  BNZ
The deal:  Financing of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy
The awards:  Films win Oscars, Golden Globes, Baftas...

Our client:  Brunswick
The deal:  The NZ$56 million investment in Navman (a GPS innovator)
The award:  Clients win USA Investor of the Year award in 2003

Some of our other great deals
 
Our client: Dogs Breakfast Trading Company
The deal:  Purchase of the retail assets of Arbuckles from Postie Plus Group
 
Our client: SC Johnson, Inc
The deal:  Acquisition of the Innovair business assets from Innovair Group Limited
 
Our client:  Tetra Laval Group
The deal: Acquisition of two specialised food processing companies, Downer MBL Pty Ltd and Downer MBL, from Australian-based Downer EDI

 

Our client: Most Excellent Roofracks Limited
The deal:  Acquisition of Hubco Automotive Limited
 
Our client: Village Roadshow Limited
The deal:  Acquisition of Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World from Tourism Holdings Limited
 
Our client: NZ Diagnostics Group (NZDG)
The deal:  Sale of NZDG to Healthscope New Zealand Ltd
 
Our client: Weyerhaeuser Company
The deal: Sale of its majority interest in the Nelson Forests Joint Venture
 
Our client: Cavalier Corporation Ltd and Norman Ellison Holdings Ltd
The deal:  Clearance application for a three-to-two joint venture
 
Our client: Great Northern Development Ltd (the majority of which is owned by companies managed by AMP Group)
The deal: Acquisition of the Lion Brewery Site in Newmarket
 
Our client: Southern Cross Health Trust and QE Health Trust
The deal: Clearance application to merge the Trusts' private hospital operations in Rotorua
 
Our client: NZ Post and Salmat
The deal: Clearance application to merge the unaddressed mail business of NZ Post and catalogue distributor Salmat
 
Our client: Synlait
The deal: $30 million capital raising for construction of a milk powder plant
 
Our client: Express Couriers
The deal: Acquisition of Roadstar Transport Ltd
 
Our client: Southern Cross Health Trust
The deal: Joint venture with Mercy Ascot to build New Zealand's first private radiotherapy clinic
 
Our client: Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) and private equity fund manager CVC
The deal: Obtaining Overseas Investment Office approval for PBL's divesture of a significant percentage of its interest in PBL Media to CVC
 
Our client: Maruha Corporation Ltd
The deal: Successfully represented Maruha Corporation in a complex partnership litigation in the Supreme Court
 
Our client: Brunswick Corporation
The deal: Sale of Brunswick New Technology's marine electronics business (including that conducted by Navman New Zealand), to Navico International
 
Our client: Brunswick Corporation
The deal: Sale of Brunswick New Technology's personal navigation device business (including that conducted by Navman New Zealand), to MiTAC International Corp
 
Our client: Reed Elsevier Group plc
The deal: New Zealand aspects of its sale of the Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International business to Pearson plc
 
Our client: Yahoo! Australia & NZ Pty Limited
The deal: Establishment of Yahoo!Xtra - a joint venture between Yahoo! and Telecom, which replaced the XtraMSN site
 
Our client: Shareholders of Independent Liquor (NZ) Limited
The deal: Sale of Independent Liquor (NZ) Limited to Pacific Equity Partners and CCMP Capital Asia Pte limited
 
Our client: Next Capital
The deal: Acquisition of Nutra-Life in New Zealand and Australia
 
Our client: New Zealand Post
The deal: Joint venture with DHL and Deutsche Post Beteiligungen GMBH

Our client: Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA
The deal: Acquisition of Carter Holt Harvey's tissue business

Our client: Qantas Airways Limited
The deal: Proposed investment in Air New Zealand

Our client: Ferrier Hodgson
The deal: Receivership administration and sale of the Central North Island Forestry Partnership

Our client: Owen’s Group
The deal: Sale of the Hirepool business

Our client: Shell New Zealand
The deal: $4 billion acquisition of Fletcher Energy

Our client: TrustPower Limited
The deals: Conversion of Electricity Power Board to a public company, takeovers of 22 other electricity businesses/generation schemes, sale of lines business

Our client: FERNZ/NuFarm
The deal: Corporate migration to Australia

Our client: EDS (New Zealand) Limited
The deal: Advising on and assisting with the day-to-day implementation and operationalisation of EDS (New Zealand) Limited’s $1.5 billion IT outsourcing with Telecom New Zealand

Our client: Brierly Investments and Sky City Limited
The deal: Purchase, construction, development and operation of Sky City Casino Hotel and Sky Tower Complex in Auckland

Our client: Omaha Beach Limited
The deal: All the resource consents for its $350 million residential beachfront development of 600 households

Our client: Department of Corrections
The deal: Tender documentation, earthworks and construction contracts for 5 new prisons throughout New Zealand

Our client: Transpower Limited
The deal: $300 million cable installation from Penrose to Albany

Our client: New Zealand Refining Company
The deals: $500 million plant upgrade and iwi partnering arrangements 




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