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Wendy Blennerhassett

Special Counsel
Auckland
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DDI:        +64 9 353 9858
FAX:        +64 9 353 9701
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Wendy is a commercial litigation lawyer with a wealth of general civil litigation experience. She specialises in complex, large scale commercial claims, with a particular focus on contractual and regulatory cases.

Professional Qualifications

LLB University of Auckland, 1988

Areas of expertise

Commercial Litigation
Competition and Regulatory

Wendy has extensive litigation experience advising and acting for clients in a wide variety of civil disputes.  She specialises in large scale commercial litigation, contract law issues and regulatory proceedings.  Wendy has appeared as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal and before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
 
Some of Wendy's major projects
  • Working in defence of proceedings brought by the Commerce Commission under the Commerce Act against major clients for price fixing and other restrictive trade practices
  • Issuing proceedings to recover assets for receivers in the context of a major receivership in the dairy farming industry
  • Conducting a claim for substantial damages for breach of warranty arising out of the sale and purchase of an equipment hire company
  • Bringing and managing proceedings for breach of warranty in relation to the supply of ingredients claimed to be out of specification and incorporated into a food product for export
  • Advising and acting for a solicitor in a dispute with his insurer over his professional indemnity cover
  • Acting as junior counsel for an entity central to the Winebox Commission of Inquiry throughout the Commission’s proceedings,  and in the civil litigation that proceeded that Inquiry 
  • In the United Kingdom, working as part of the regulatory enforcement team responsible for successfully bringing disciplinary proceedings against directors of a fund management company for conduct that saw the company pay £210 million in compensation to investors
Work history

Special Counsel, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, Auckland (2000 - present) formerly Senior Associate to 2005
Foreign Lawyer on Secondment, Financial Services Authority (Enforcement Division), London (1999) 
Foreign Lawyer, Dibb Lupton Alsop (now DLA Piper), London (1997 - 1999)
Senior Associate, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, Auckland (1991 -1996)




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