Ko Muriwai te awa
E noho ana au ki Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara
Ko Fielding tōku whānau
Ko Daniel tōku ingoa
Career highlights
Advising the Department of Internal Affairs on implementing the Three Waters Reform Programme, including a secondment to the National Transition Unit as acting lead legal adviser.
Advising the United Kingdom Department for International Trade on the UK-New Zealand free trade agreement negotiations and the UK’s negotiations to accede into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Providing modern slavery and supply chain risk advice to clients with operations in Australia and New Zealand, including updating contractual clauses, responding to due diligence requests, drafting policies and modern slavery statements, and assisting with modern slavery risk assessments.
Providing ongoing general employment advice to a range of clients, including drafting employment agreements and HR policies, restructuring and redundancies, and disciplinary investigations.
Commencing Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) arbitrations for disputes arising out of a coal mine in Indonesia, defending a state-owned enterprise in a SIAC arbitration for a dispute arising out of an independent power project in the United Arab Emirates, and commencing enforcement proceeding of a SIAC award before the Federal Court of Australia for a dispute involving a mine in Vietnam (and advising on the setting aside application of the same award before the High Court of Singapore).
Affiliations
- Alternate Board Member, New Zealand International Business Forum
- Member, Leadership Network, Asia New Zealand Foundation
- Member, Wellington Club
- Accredited Arbitral Tribunal Secretary, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
Achievements and recognition
- Band 1 team, Public Law, Chambers Asia-Pacific
- Tier 1 team, Dispute Resolution, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific