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Bell Gully has appointed six new senior associates, including four returning alumni. Dean Alderton joins the Auckland corporate team from SNR Denton in Dubai where he was a partner. Simon Consedine re-joins Bell Gully in the Wellington litigation team, having completed his LLM at Columbia University and subsequently worked for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris. Deborah Doak re-joins the employment team in the Auckland office as a senior associate. Leigh Kissick re-joins the firm in the Wellington banking and finance team, having spent four years at Slaughter & May in London. Laura Littlewood also joins Bell Gully’s corporate team after six years overseas practising at Macfarlanes in the UK and AttrideStirling & Woloniecki in Bermuda. Glenn Shewan re-joins the firm in the Auckland competition team after six years in Australia and the UK. Most recently he was a managing associate in the London office of Linklaters.
Kate Ashcroft, employment law specialist, has joined Brookfields Lawyers as a senior associate in the litigation team. Kate’s background includes all aspects of employment law in New Zealand and in corporate human resources in Australia. Kate has an interest in and commitment to volunteering and the not-for-profit sector and is a trustee on the board of Volunteering Auckland.
and trust issues.
Buddle Findlay has promoted Alexandra Low to special counsel. Alexandra is a senior taxation practitioner specialising in disputes, litigation Victoria Dryden has joined Dennis King Law’s litigation team. Victoria’s focus will be on civil and commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution and employment law.
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Meetra Wong has joined Crown Law as an assistant Crown Counsel in the criminal law team. Before joining Crown Law, Meetra studied a BA/LLB(Hons) at Auckland University and she is currently completing an honours dissertation on New Zealand’s preventive detention regime. Elana Geddis has begun practice as a barrister in Harbour Chambers, Wellington. A former senior public sector lawyer, she provides advice in all areas of public law and has particular expertise in the domestic legal implications of international obligations. Environmental law specialist Hans van der Wal has been appointed as special counsel at Duncan Cotterill Lawyers. Hans has acted for local government and private clients on plan and consent-related legal issues both at council and court hearings and in environmental enforcement
and prosecution proceedings. Chris Shannon joins Duncan Cotterill as an associate. He was formerly a Crown prosecutor for more than seven years, the past five as a senior Crown prosecutor in Palmerston North. Bridgette White has rejoined Buddle Findlay’s Auckland office as a senior solicitor in the litigation team. Bridgette specialises in commercial litigation and insolvency, and has recently returned to New Zealand after two years working in the United Kingdom. Rob Noakes has joined Wynn Williams as a partner and heads up the new Auckland office on Shortland Street. Rob specialises in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, trade practices, competition law, corporate governance and risk assessment. He advises listed, multinational and private companies. Nick Lodder joins Wynn Williams as a partner in Auckland on completion of New Zealand Law Society requirements. He advises financiers and borrowers across a variety of banking and finance matters. Nick is a specialist in banking and finance and his work has included asset finance, syndicated lending, structured