Harmans Lawyers

Corporate and Commercial Law

Harmans has a significant corporate and commercial team, with proven experience in providing innovative solutions for our corporate clients in the running of their businesses.

The strong relationships that we have forged with our small and medium enterprise clients enable us to provide valuable input into their structure, operations and strategic planning.  We have an energetic and practical approach that our clients enjoy.  We are focussed on providing solutions that are tailored to best suit each client.

Our commercial clients range from small business start-ups to large national and international companies involved in fields as diverse as finance, banking, retail, accommodation, land development, hospitality and manufacturing.

Our services include advice and advocacy on:

  • Business structuring and strategic planning
  • Construction disputes
  • Consumer legislation
  • Contract preparation and negotiation
  • Debt recovery
  • Dispute resolution
  • Due diligence
  • Business funding
  • Formation and establishment of companies and partnerships
  • Governance and compliance issues including advising boards on their responsibilities under various pieces of legislation
  • Insurance law
  • Mergers, acquisitions and amalgamations
  • Professional negligence litigation
  • Prospectuses and public offerings
  • Resource management
  • Securities and capital raising
  • Share issues
  • Joint ventures
  • Leases
  • Property development
  • Stakeholder issues 

To read an article written by Robin Standage on The need for a Shareholders' Agreement, click here.


Contact our specialised team for further Corporate and Commercial Law information (03) 379 7835:

Partners: Alan Prescott alan.prescott@harmans.co.nz
  Seaton Read seaton.read@harmans.co.nz
  Mark Sherry mark.sherry@harmans.co.nz
  Chris Simpson chris.simpson@harmans.co.nz
  Kath Standage kath.standage@harmans.co.nz
     
Consultant: Robin Standage robin.standage@harmans.co.nz
     
 Senior Associate: Nalini Meyer nalini.meyer@harmans.co.nz
     
 Associates: Catherine Gilvray catherine.gilvray@harmans.co.nz
  Margaret Lister margaret.lister@harmans.co.nz
     
     
 Lawyer: Amy Hyland amy.hyland@harmans.co.nz

 

 

 

 




Seaton Read, Brent Selwyn, Chris Simpson, Alan Prescott, Kath Standage, Robin Standage, Mark Sherry

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