Daria Withers
Senior Associate - Corporate and Commercial

Daria is a Senior Associate in the corporate and commercial team. She has advised both public and private clients on numerous M&A transactions in various sectors and has significant corporate and commercial experience including IPOs, capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, listing rule compliance, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, overseas investment, and commercial contracting. She also advises on film and television productions, acting for a range of major US studios.
Professional background
Recent work
Acquisition of Tip Top
Advised Froneri on its $385m acquisition of Tip Top from Fonterra.
Tegel Group Holdings Limited
Advised Tegel Foods on its IPO and dual listing on the NZX and ASX, which valued Tegel at $550m.
Evolve Education Limited
Part of the team that advised on its childcare roll up and IPO. Evolve entered into 39 separate transactions to purchase 85 childcare centres and two home care businesses. Evolve then conducted an IPO to raise the $132m required to fund the acquisitions and listing on NZX and ASX.
Admitted
- 2012, New Zealand
Qualifications
- LLB (Hons), BA, University of Auckland
Specialisations
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Equity Capital Markets
- Corporate Governance
- Commercial Contracts
- Film and Entertainment
Daria Withers
- Office
- Auckland
- Phone
- +64 9 353 9861
- Mobile
- +64 21 162 3792
- Daria.Withers@minterellison.co.nz
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/daria-withers-24104b6b/?originalSubdomain=nz