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About
Provided by Polly Pope
Practice Areas
Polly is the Chair of the Partnership at Russell McVeagh and a highly respected litigator. She is known for her expertise in insolvency and restructuring, class actions, construction, and financial regulatory disputes. Her client list includes a number of New Zealand’s largest listed companies, multinational corporations, major trading banks and financial institutions. She accepts appointments as an arbitrator in domestic and international disputes.
Career
Polly has been a partner since 2012, and elected Chair of the Partnership in 2021. She was admitted to practise in New Zealand in 1999, and England and Wales in 2003, gaining international experience in the arbitration and litigation teams of leading global firms Debevoise & Plimpton and Clifford Chance.
Professional Memberships
Polly is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and the Arbitrators' and Mediators Institute of New Zealand. Polly co-founded Women in Restructuring and Insolvency and is a member of Society for Construction Law, and the Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association of New Zealand.
Publications
Polly co-authored the New Zealand chapter in the 2021 Collective Redress and Class Actions Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide. She co-authored Consumer Credit, Laws of New Zealand (LexisNexis), and was editor of the arbitration chapters of Sim's Court Practice (LexisNexis).