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
- 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
- Acting for venture capital investors and venture capital investee companies
- Structuring
- Seed and early stage investment and expansion
- Subscription and shareholders’ agreements
- Exit strategies
- 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
- Structuring joint ventures and other similar commercial arrangements
- Subscription and shareholders’ agreements
- Joint venture agreements
- Limited partnership agreements
- Amalgamations
- Other solvent restructures and reorganisations of businesses
- Removal of companies from the New Zealand Register
- 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
- Structuring advice
- Overseas Investment Office applications and advice
- 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
- Supply agreements
- Distribution agreements
- Manufacturing agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Franchising agreements
- Procurement agreements
- Confidentiality agreements
- Marketing, agency and sponsorship agreements
- 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
- Contract negotiations
- Due diligence
- Real estate financing
- Land ownership structures
- Land title advice and registration
- Land swaps
- Development contracts
- Due diligence
- Development vehicle structures
- Design/build agreements
- Professional/consultant contracts
- Subdivisions
- Commercial leases
- Advising on telecommunications leases
- Ground leases
- Design/build/lease agreements
- Titles
- Easement and covenant arrangements
- Encumbrances and interests in land
- Residents’ society rules
- Unit title developments
- Body corporate rules
- Boundary adjustments
Brown Partners calls upon its seamless and responsive network of external specialists if clients require advice outside Brown Partners’ core competencies.