Our Profession · Our People partners. Ed works predominantly as a general civil litigator. He regularly appears in the High Court and Court of Appeal on commercial matters. Andrew specialises in Andrew Tait commercial and property law. He has transactional experience and a particular focus on property development and subdivisions. Michael Gartshore has been made a partner of Webb Henderson, a law firm with offices in Auckland, Sydney, Singapore and London. Michael advises clients on Michael Gartshore corporate and commercial transactions including mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, takeovers, corporate restructurings, foreign investment in New Zealand and other corporate advisory, commercial contract and governance matters. He also advises on and energy and infrastructure projects. Michael joined the firm in 2011 having previously been at Linklaters and Russell McVeagh. Webb Henderson has also promoted public lawyer Edward Willis to senior associate. Edward Willis Ed is a regulatory law specialist who advises on competition law, economic regulation, and other legal and policy matters. He has particular experience working with clients in telecommunications, energy, finance, transport and media sectors. Lawyer, public policy specialist and political commentator Linda Clark is joining Kensington Swan’s public law team as a special counsel. “I am a public affairs junkie and am looking forward to helping solve clients’ problems through a range of public law, strategic communications and dispute resolution tools,” she says. Before becoming a lawyer, Linda was TVNZ’s Political Editor throughout the 1990s, and later was host of Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme.
L AW F I R M N E W S
Auckland firm Ross & Whitney has merged with AlexanderDorrington. Ian Ross and Ken Whitney have joined AlexanderDorrington as consultants. Ian and Ken specialise in property law, trusts and estates. Patrick Rotherham has merged his practice Rotherhams Law with Parry Field Lawyers in Christchurch. Pat, who specialises in business and property acquisitions and sales, Patrick Rotherham asset protection and succession planning, has been made a partner of Parry Field Lawyers.
Hunter Cup golf The Canterbury-Westland branch’s annual Hunter Cup golf day will be held at the Clearwater Golf Club on 3 April. The Hunter Cup itself, for the best nett score, is open to Law Society members and judiciary who have official handicaps. It is not the only competition on the day. Men’s and ladies’ Stableford competitions will be open for all official grades, and nonhandicap players will also qualify for prizes. Participants from the Ministry of Justice will compete against a drawn team of lawyers for the E A Lee Trophy. Tee off will be at noon and a barbecue lunch will be available from 11am. The prizegiving will start at around 6pm, with dinner to follow. Dinner and drinks will be open to non-playing practitioners from 5pm. For more information email susan.newman@lawsociety.org.nz.
Chance meeting leads to research award A chance meeting on Robben Island, outside the prison where Nelson Mandela was held for 27 years, has led to a profitable and rewarding collaboration for Waikato law professor Neil Boister. Professor Boister has been awarded a Freidrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the German-based Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of his achievements in international and transnational criminal law research. He was nominated by Dr Florian Jessberger, professor of criminal law at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
“I was visiting Robben Island in 2001, and it just so happened that Florian was there too. He knew the friend I was with, we got talking and since then I have visited Hamburg and we are now planning to work on a project on the EU’s influence on the development of transnational criminal law,” he says. Professor Boister will travel to Germany in November initially for a period of seven months followed by shorter periods, and work with Professor Jessberger, researching how the European Union is spreading its ideas on criminal law world-wide. LawTalk 837 · 14 March 2014 ·
17