Liz Rowe

Special Counsel Mātanga Ture

Liz is a corporate lawyer with 20 years’ experience specialising in both mergers and acquisitions and retirement village and aged care law.

For retirement villages and aged care, Liz has deep sector knowledge and relationships and provides specialist legal advice to stakeholders across the industry. In particular, Liz is a trusted adviser to many large corporate retirement village and aged care operators on matters including resident issues, regulatory and compliance matters, occupation right and admission agreements and business changes and restructures. She also acts for Covenant Trustee Services (the largest statutory supervisor of retirement villages in New Zealand) on its village supervisions.

For mergers and acquisitions, Liz specialises in mid-market transactions bringing an expert, efficient and collaborative approach to transactions from due diligence to negotiation of transaction documents and completion.

To any advice, project or transaction, Liz brings energy and enthusiasm and is known for her responsiveness, care for clients and pragmatic, problem-solving approach.

Career highlights

Liz is a trusted adviser to many large retirement village operators. Her work spans the myriad of issues that arise, from day-to-day challenges with residents and regulations, to broader strategy, policy and transactional matters. Liz regularly advises Oceania, Bupa, Ryman and Hoppers including in respect of structuring and registering new villages, drafting village documents and transaction matters.

Liz regularly acts for operators on acquisitions and dispositions both small (single village or facility) or large (portfolio). Liz acted for Metlifecare on the acquisition of The Selwyn Foundation’s portfolio of retirement villages.

Liz specialises in mid-market M&A and in recent years has acted on a number of international and domestic transactions, including acting for Multi-Color Corporation’s acquisition of Hexagon Holdings and for shareholders of Bay Radiology Limited on the sale of their shares to Infratail.

Trusted adviser to Covenant Trustee Services Limited in relation to its retirement village supervisions, including numerous consent applications for acquisitions, borrowing, and security.

Liz is particularly passionate about the coming impact of New Zealand’s ageing population on our country and how we can best shape New Zealand’s policy, infrastructure and economics to both serve that population and grow.

Regularly advising various warranty and indemnity insurers underwriting W&I policies in the New Zealand M&A market.

Affiliations
  • Associate Member, Retirement Villages Association of New Zealand Inc (RVA)
  • Associate Member, Aged Care Association of New Zealand Inc (RVA)
Achievements and recognition
  • Recognised team, Corporate/Commercial, Chambers Asia-Pacific
  • Tier 1 team, Corporate and M&A, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific