Services & Expertise

Brown Partners are specialist corporate lawyers with experience spanning a broad range of service areas.

Click on one of the service headings below to learn more about the work we do

Mergers & Acquisitions

Asset and share acquisitions and disposals
Management buy-outs
Due diligence for vendors and purchasers
Bid processes
Terms sheets, heads of agreement, memoranda of understanding and confidentiality agreements

Venture Capital

Acting for venture capital investors and venture capital investee companies
Structuring
Seed and early stage investment and expansion
Subscription and shareholders’ agreements
Exit strategies

Financial Markets and Products

Capital raisings and securities offerings including rights issues and private placements
Preparation of offering documents
Advice on the application of the Financial Markets Conduct Act/Securities Act to debt and equity offerings
Employee share plans

Joint Ventures, Limited Partnerships and Shareholding Arrangements

Structuring joint ventures and other similar commercial arrangements
Subscription and shareholders’ agreements
Joint venture agreements
Limited partnership agreements

Corporate Restructuring

Amalgamations
Other solvent restructures and reorganisations of businesses
Removal of companies from the New Zealand Register

Capital Raising and Corporate Finance

Advice on equity and debt instruments
Lending and borrowing for corporate lenders and borrowers (in both an intragroup and a third party context) including facility agreements, shareholder and intragroup loans, security agreements, security sharing and intercreditor agreements and deeds of priority and subordination

Corporate Governance

Directors’ duties and liabilities
Advice on directors’ indemnities and insurance
Conflicts of interest
Board and strategic advice
Shareholders’ rights
Conduct of board and shareholder meetings

Commercial Contracts

Supply agreements
Distribution agreements
Manufacturing agreements
Licensing agreements
Franchising agreements
Procurement agreements
Confidentiality agreements
Marketing, agency and sponsorship agreements

General Corporate and Commercial Advice

Advice on the Companies Act, Takeovers Code, Personal Property Securities Act, Receiverships Act, Privacy Act, Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act, Sale of Goods Act
Compliance with New Zealand consumer law, including the Fair Trading Act and the Consumer Guarantees Act
Advice on receiverships and insolvency issues
Terms of trade and standard terms and conditions
Online terms of use
Privacy policies
Registration under financial service providers legislation
Financial reporting requirements
Registration requirements for overseas companies

Property Acquisitions and Sales

Contract negotiations
Due diligence
Real estate financing
Land ownership structures
Land title advice and registration
Land swaps

Developments

Development contracts
Due diligence
Development vehicle structures
Design/build agreements
Professional/consultant contracts
Subdivisions

Leasing

Commercial leases
Advising on telecommunications leases
Ground leases
Design/build/lease agreements

Subdivisions

Titles
Easement and covenant arrangements
Encumbrances and interests in land
Residents’ society rules
Unit title developments
Body corporate rules
Boundary adjustments

Overseas Investment in New Zealand

Structuring advice
Overseas Investment Office applications and advice

Immigration

Advice regarding eligibility for New Zealand visas including investor and business categories
Advice and preparation of section 61 applications (unlawful status in New Zealand)
Advice and preparation of appeals to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal

Brown Partners calls upon its seamless and responsive network of external specialists if clients require advice outside Brown Partners’ core competencies.