Career highlights
Working with the internal project team to determine Z’s desired outcome from the closure of the Marsden Point refinery and the resulting move to import all product requirements.
Advising The Treasury on the Government’s response to Rio Tinto’s signalled closure of its Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, including assessment of the environmental framework for that closure.
Advising the Crown on the implications to it of the partial sale of NZ Post by Kiwibank (to ACC and NZ Super) including the restructure of the Crown’s standby guarantee of Kiwibank, involving its redocumentation and the Crown being a participant to ongoing shareholder arrangements.
Leading the team that advised Z Energy on its $785 million acquisition of Chevron New Zealand (which owned and operated the Caltex retail fuel brand in New Zealand).
Affiliations
- Chair, Booster Financial Services Limited
- Chair, Dryland Carbon LLP
- Director, Darling Group Limited
- Director, Lifetime Group NZ
- Chartered Fellow, New Zealand Institute of Directors
Achievements and recognition
- Senior Statesperson, Energy and Natural Resources , Chambers Asia-Pacific
- Senior Statesperson, Energy and Natural Resources, Chambers Global
- Expert Consultant, Capital Markets: Equity, M&A, Energy and Infrastructure, IFLR1000
- Recognised, Capital Markets Law, Best Lawyers
- Recognised, Energy Law, Best Lawyers