Igor Drinkovic > MinterEllisonRuddWatts > Auckland, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile

MinterEllisonRuddWatts
PWC TOWER, 15 CUSTOMS STREET WEST
PO BOX 105 249
AUCKLAND 1143
New Zealand

Work Department

Corporate and M&A

Position

Special Counsel

Career

Igor specialises in public mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and securities law. He assists listed companies with their most significant projects as well as their “business as usual” matters.

Igor enjoys working with his clients and other investment professionals to design and provide innovative solutions to achieve their goals. He advises local and foreign clients on public takeovers, initial public offerings (IPOs), public capital raisings, private placements, Overseas Investment Office (OIO) consents, employee share schemes, regulatory investigations, continuous disclosure issues, and listed company matters in general. He is widely regarded as an expert on public M&A, including the application of the Takeovers Code, Overseas Investment Act, and Financial Markets legislation.

He has advised some of New Zealand’s largest companies including MediaWorks, Tourism Holdings, Channel Infrastructure, The Warehouse, and NZ Merino, as well as large international clients including CITIC Capital and Brookfield Asset Management.

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Education

LLB, University of Auckland

Lawyer Rankings

New Zealand > Corporate and M&A

(Rising stars)

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The corporate team at MinterEllisonRuddWatts is ‘well-versed on commercial realities’ and praised for its ‘very pragmatic and commercial’ approach.’ The team’s expertise covers public and private M&A, private equity and capital markets, corporate governance, and regulatory matters to its clients which operate across a myriad of sectors and industries, spanning food and beverage, manufacturing, agriculture, financial services, transport, healthcare and education. The team is jointly led by the ‘commercial and realistic’ Neil Millar and John Conlan. Millar spearheads the corporate team in Auckland and is a key port of call for some of the world’s largest corporates, while Conlan, who leads the Wellington team, specialises in M&A, corporate advisory and complex commercial contracting and restructuring. Mark Forman is noted for his expertise in overseas investment laws, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, and employee shareholding arrangements. Other notable individuals include Mark Stuart who possesses the capability to advise clients on all aspects of M&A, capital markets, and commercial and business transactions, and associate Igor Drinkovic who specialises in public M&A and securities law.