James Marriner
Senior Associate - Corporate and Commercial
James is a Senior Associate in our Corporate and Commercial team. James has considerable experience advising a broad range of clients on various aspects of corporate and commercial law, including M&A transactions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, overseas investment, corporate governance and licensing advice, and other general corporate advisory work.
James brings international experience, having worked at a major international law firm in the United Arab Emirates before joining MinterEllisonRuddWatts, and has also spent time at another major New Zealand law firm.
Professional background
Recent work
Sale of MediaWorks TV to Discovery
Advised MediaWorks on the sale of MediaWorks TV, New Zealand’s only privately owned major free-to-air television network, to Discovery, Inc.
Sale of Westpac advisory business to Forsyth Barr
Advised Westpac New Zealand on the sale of its retail wealth and financial advisory business to Forsyth Barr and formation of a strategic partnership between the parties.
LIC sale of automation business
Advised Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited on the sale of its automation business to MSD Animal Health (a division of Merck & Co, Inc).
Sale of timber mill
Advised Craigpine Timber Limited on the sale of its Southland sawmill to Niagara Sawmilling Company.
Sale of Healthscope’s New Zealand pathology business
Part of the team that advised Healthscope on the sale of its New Zealand pathology business, Asia Pacific Healthcare Group, to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and the Canadian Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, each taking a 50% share.
Admitted
- 2010, New Zealand
Qualifications
- LLB, BCom, University of Otago
Specialisations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Shareholder arrangements
- Overseas investment
- Procurement & distribution arrangements
James Marriner
- Office
- Auckland
- Phone
- +64 9 353 9868
- Mobile
- james.marriner@minterellison.co.nz
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-marriner-aa1a5492/?originalSubdomain=ae