Greenwood Roche

Number of partners: 15

Number of lawyers: 55

New Zealand’s specialist project lawyers.An integral part of your team.

Greenwood Roche is a specialist projects law firm with offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, established specifically to offer an end-to-end service for clients with major projects.

Greenwood Roche’s partners and senior lawyers are regarded as leaders in their fields, having worked in large traditional law firms both nationally and internationally.This enables the firm to deliver unrivalled expertise to all aspects of projects from pre-project regulatory settings through to structuring, regulatory advice, overseas investment approvals, landowner negotiations, iwi consultation, permitting and consenting, financing, construction, commissioning and operation, upgrades, restructuring, and decommissioning.We also have extensive experience in Project-related dispute resolution and claims management, including adjudication, independent expert determinations, mediation, arbitration and litigation.

Greenwood Roche’s unique governance structure means we offer a different model of legal services that is cost-efficient, fully collaborative and outcome-focused. Our lawyers operate fluidly within cohesive teams selected from the firm’s specialist areas on a “best for client” basis.We don’t over-complicate concepts or documentation and we know how to deal with risk and do so commercially and pragmatically.Central to this philosophy, our lawyers also integrate into our clients’ teams to deliver the high levels of care, rigour and performance clients would expect of themselves.

National Specialist Area Leaders

• Banking & Finance: Anthony Staples
• Construction and Infrastructure: Amy Rutherford & Barry Walker
• Corporate & Commercial: Brigid McArthur
• Energy & Natural Resources: Brigid McArthur & Nick Dunn
• Property & Real Estate: Antonia Shanahan & Barry Walker
• Public Law: Nick Dunn
• Resource Management & Environment: Francelle Lupis

Banking & Finance

Our specialists have significant experience in all legal aspects of corporate and project funding, working with a number of New Zealand’s leading banks, financial institutions and corporate borrowers.

Construction and Infrastructure

Greenwood Roche boasts one New Zealand’s largest fully integrated construction and projects teams, combining deep industry knowledge with leading international experience.Our construction and infrastructure projects team comprises lawyers with leading NZ law experience and international experience gained in the UK, the Middle East and Australia.

We advise international and domestic clients at all stages of New Zealand’s highest profile construction and infrastructure projects – from procurement through to project delivery and assisting our clients to resolve disputes (including, through adjudication, litigation, arbitration and all forms of alternative dispute resolution).

Corporate & Commercial

Fit-for-purpose governance and appropriate structures are essential to any major infrastructure project.

Greenwood Roche regularly establishes companies, limited partnerships, trusts and other business structures and provides on-going advice to boards on corporate governance within the full range of company, financial reporting, and securities laws.

Our lawyers also advise on all manner of commercial contracts, including procurement and commercial negotiations, and are fully versed with the government procurement policies.

Energy & Resources

The Greenwood Roche team has extensive experience in the energy and resources sectors, including renewable energy, and a deep understanding of how to best navigate the New Zealand regulatory environment.

Our team advises on all stages of energy and resources projects, including, transaction structuring, Overseas Investment Office approval where required, due diligence reviews,electricity and gas industry regulation, grid connection, PPAs and other offtake contracts/ CfDs, as well as negotiation of land interests and options, resource consenting (including fast track consenting processes), obtaining regulatory approvals, financing, project development contracts and project delivery.

Property & Real Estate

The commercial property landscape in New Zealand is anything but uniform. Each locality and project has its own requirements and challenges. Greenwood Roche provides experts with the experience to navigate them all, in both the public and private sectors.

The firm’s property team is the largest in New Zealand (by some margin) and acts for a broad range of public and private sector clients in the commercial, industrial and retail space. This specialist experience places Greenwood Roche at the forefront of the market and this is dictated by the types of projects that we work on.

Resource Management & Environment

Our resource management team comprises specialist lawyers with extensive experience in all aspects of resource management and planning law, including: law reform, district and regional plan formulation, significant re-zoning proposals, fast-track consenting processes, large-scale urban development projects and consenting in the education, healthcare, infrastructure, residential, justice and corrections, industrial and renewable energy and natural resources sectors.

Our team has a reputation for working on the “hard” projects - those that require innovative thinking, a commitment to success and a desire to achieve that which sometimes seems impossible.

Auckland, New Zealand

Address: Hayman Kronfeld Building, Level 6, 15 Galway Street, Auckland 1010

Phone: +64 9 306 0490

Email: [email protected]

Christchurch, New Zealand

Address: Level 3, 1 Kettlewell Lane, 680-690 Colombo Street, Christchurch 8011

Phone: +64 3 353 0570

Email: [email protected]

Wellington, New Zealand

Address: Level 13, 36 Customhouse Quay, Wellington 6011

Phone: +64 4 494 8500

Email: [email protected]