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Projects and resource management
Other recommended firms
Leading individuals
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- Chris Gordon Bell Gully
- Paul Majurey Atkins Holm Joseph Majurey Limited
- Brigid McArthur Greenwood Roche Chisnall
- Derek Nolan Russell McVeagh
- Elisabeth Welson Simpson Grierson
Bell Gully has ‘tremendous depth of talent over a broad area’. Chris Gordon is recommended for his ‘good service ethic’ and ‘strong affinity for client relations’. Andrew Beatson was successful in the High Court in relation to Meridian Energy’s Project Hayes, the hotly contested NZ$2bn project in Central Otago involving 176 wind turbines. The firm also won the Treasury adviser role on the development of New Zealand’s model PPP terms. David Coull is recommended.
Buddle Findlay’s national projects and resource management practice ‘carries a wide range of skills’; its ‘business acumen and industry knowledge are excellent’. The firm was appointed as legal adviser on four sections of the government’s Roads of National Significance, and is advising Central Plains Water Trust on the establishment of New Zealand’s largest irrigation scheme.
Russell McVeagh acted for Meridian, New Zealand’s largest electricity generator, on the restructuring of government commercial interests in the electricity industry, and for TrustPower on an amendment to a water conservation order and related resource consent applications relating to the Lake Coleridge project. Derek Nolan ‘gives confidence’, and is noted for his ‘excellent senior advice’.
Anderson Lloyd is a ‘good firm on the South Island’, and works with corporate and entrepreneurial clients, developers and tourism operators. It recently acted on the application of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu and the Department of Conservation to amend an existing Water Conservation Order for Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere, the first application of its kind under the ECan Act 2010.
Chancery Green’s significant projects include the Hauauru ma Raki wind farm Board of Inquiry Hearing, for Contact Energy, and Mighty River Power’s Turitea wind farm Board of Inquiry Hearing. The firm’s recent appointment by the Ministry of Economic Development as a member of its Energy Consultants Panel reflects its strength in energy generation.
Service levels at Chapman Tripp are ‘excellent’; the team provides ‘very good, pragmatic and strategic advice’. Recent work highlights include acting for the New Zealand Transport Agency on the Waterview Connection project, and advising Meridian Energy on property, stakeholder, consenting, construction and procurement issues in relation to its proposed North Bank hydro generation scheme.
Simpson Grierson has a well-established commercial projects practice, and is recommended for regulatory work. It is regularly instructed by government and state enterprises on infrastructure projects. Clients include industry corporates and major local councils.
Kensington Swan gained some significant new clients, including Solid Energy, Transpacific Industries Limited and Unison Networks Limited. It recently acted for the New Zealand Transport Agency.
Sarah Sinclair, formerly general counsel at Genesis Energy, and Mark Crosbie have joined the team at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts. The firm recently acted for Opepe Farm Trust in relation to Contact Energy’s Tauhara II geothermal power station proposal, and for the NZ Historic Places Trust in relation to the Hauauru ma raki Waikato wind farm project.