Peter Fanning > Tompkins Wake > Hamilton, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile
Tompkins Wake Offices
WESTPAC HOUSE, LEVEL 8
430 VICTORIA STREET, PO BOX 258
HAMILTON
New Zealand
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Peter Fanning
Work Department
Property and Real Estate | Private Client and Trusts
Position
Partner
Career
Peter is a property law specialist, with expertise in agribusiness and rural law. Peter has nearly 30 years’ experience practicing law across the agriculture and commercial sectors joining Tompkins Wake as partner in 2009.
Peter’s experience includes acting on large and complex infrastructure, farming and commercial property transactions, developments and land acquisitions.
Peter is passionate about New Zealand agriculture and spends time ensuring he is up with the latest industry developments.
A significant part of Peter’s practice also specialises in personal asset planning for Tompkins Wakes private clients. Peter is a qualified practitioner and member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the worldwide professional association for those advising families across generations. Peter enjoys building long term relationships with clients, assisting them to develop, grow and manage their businesses and assets.
Peter previously spent 13 years in Taupo during which he acted for a wide range of Māori clients and entities including Ahu Whenua Trusts, Māori Incorporations and Assembled Māori owners with various appearances in the Māori Land Court. Work included advising in respect of the Te Ture Whenua Act, forestry, farming (both pastoral and dairying), power generation and ownership structuring with national and international generation entities, long-term leasing and sale arrangements, constitutional and trust advice.
Larger clients included Tauhara North No 2 Trust, Opawa Rangitoto 2C Incorporated, Opepe Farm Trust and Whenuatupu-Ohinemoa Trust. Peter continues to act for a number of Māori organisations and is currently involved with various matters for Whenuatupu Ohinemoa and providing advice on the Waituhi Forest Hapu Cluster Trust structure (being the ultimate recipients of the CNI Crown forestry interests settled as a result of the CNI Forest Claim).
Peter has acted for and advised:
- Staggered acquisitions of land from SOE for a significant strategic roading project valued in excess of $100m.
- Variation of power generators interests protecting geothermal resource.
- Major commercial subdivisions of significant value.
- Providing advice in respect of Central North Island electricity project valued in excess of $100m.
- Syndication of various farming interests.
- Rural leasing and profit a prendre work.
- Providing general property advice to one of New Zealand’s large private dairy farming groups and one of New Zealand’s largest Kiwifruit producers.
Memberships
Board of Partners, Tompkins Wake
NZ Law Society Property Section – Treasurer
NZ Law Society Rural Law Committee
TEP, Society of Trust and Estate Planners
Education
BA, LLB, TEP, University of Otago
Lawyer Rankings
New Zealand > Real estate and construction
Tompkins Wake‘s practice provides a full range of property services throughout New Zealand. Scott Ratuki leads the commercial property department and has an excellent track record in handling large-scale commercial developments and subdivisions. Property and real estate lawyer Peter Duncan is well known for advising on local government property matters. Peter Fanning‘s workload includes infrastructure, agriculture, and commercial property mandates, and Rotorua-based Catriona Gordon‘s broad practice takes in commercial property developments and transactions. Kate Searancke and Campbell Stewart are noted for their commercial property and overseas investor expertise respectively. In April 2023 Gemma Bodle and Rotorua-based Jasmine Findlater made partner, bolstering the team with their expertise in commercial and residential property, covering leasing, transactions, and local government matters. Unless stated otherwise, all named individuals are based in the Hamilton office.