Harmans Lawyers

Rural and Agricultural Law

There are many challenges facing farmers and rural landowners today.

We have a dynamic team who provide pragmatic advice tailored for the rural community. We pride ourselves on offering a prompt user friendly service that focuses on providing legal solutions to make matters simple for our clients so that they can concentrate on what matters - running their businesses.

Over the years our partners and staff have forged strong ties with generations of rural families. Some of our partners have their own farming interests which gives them a real appreciation for the issues affecting our broad range of rural based clients, from those operating large scale farming operations to those seeking the good life on smaller holdings.

Harmans is proud to have recently become the only legal firm to be a supplier to CRT which means that CRT members can enjoy all of the advantages of using their CRT cards to pay for our services which include:

  • Buying, selling and financing rural land, machinery and livestock
  • Advice on the most appropriate structures for the ownership of assets, operation of businesses and strategies for succession planning
  • Resource management compliance
  • Advice on wind farm projects and dealing with network utility operators
  • Relationship property issues
  • Rural subdivisions
  • Leasing rural land
  • Off-farm investment
  • Foreign ownership and Overseas Investment Office issues
  • Forestry rights
  • Employment of staff including health and safety issues 

To read the latest article written by Kath Standage on National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT), click here.


Contact our specialist team for further Rural & Agricultural Law information
(03) 379 7835:

Partners: Brent Selwyn brent.selwyn@harmans.co.nz
  Jeremy Daley jeremy.daley@harmans.co.nz
  Kath Standage kath.standage@harmans.co.nz
  Mark Sherry mark.sherry@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




Brent Selwyn, Jeremy Daley, Kath Standage, Mark Sherry

Harmans - Passionate, Proven, Professional