Lane Neave > Christchurch, New Zealand > Firm Profile

‘As a client you feel respected and are provided with the best advice from experts. The team are approachable, have a sense of humour, reliable and deliver a great customer service.’

‘Fiona McMillan is a great leader, creates a positive work environment, leads by example, mentors and continually supports the teams development.’

‘Alex Bell has been great to work with and is very responsive to queries. Andrew Shaw’s knowledge and fast pick-up of situations is reassuring – he’s seen it all before!’

‘Andrew Shaw is highly regarded, experienced and pragmatic.’

‘Great practitioners, especially Evelyn Jones, who is commercial, technically excellent and responsive.’

‘Evelyn Jones takes a truly relationship-based approach to her work. She is a trusted advisor for our Australian-law transactions with a New Zealand-law leg.’

‘Lane Neave has a small but good B&F team. They have a breadth of expertise from transactional through to regulatory compliance.’

‘Evelyn Jones is a trusted advisor on property development financing transactions.’

‘Speed of solution delivery is second to none and they have a pragmatic way of dealing with issues.’

‘Evelyn Jones always finds a way to deliver a solution that will work for all parties and keeps the end client in sight. She responds to queries very quickly and care of the client is always front of mind.’

‘Lane Neave’s strength is in its team, which is smaller and more tight-knit, but they are able to provide services to their customers that rivals the big firms, with a personal touch.’

‘Evelyn Jones has become a trusted advisor in banking and finance legal matters. While clearly very knowledgeable and up-to-date on legal matters, the real value-add is her understanding and appreciation of the drivers/quirks of both her customer’s businesses, and indeed their customer’s businesses too.’

‘Rebecca Scott is smart, strategic, pragmatic, tough, but very personable with clients. She is an impressive talent on the rise.’

‘A strong South Island practice. An absolute go-to firm for litigation and insolvency advice in the South Island, no matter how large or complex the case is.’

‘Ben Russell is really coming into his stride, leading a strong litigation team.’

‘The Lane Neave dispute resolution team are technically excellent, but what marks them out is their absolute focus on achieving their client’s preferred outcome, whether that be a “principled” outcome or a commercially pragmatic one’

‘They have an excellent team, a good depth of knowledge and smart tools to isolate core information. Delivery of solutions is well-documented, strategy well-thought and results celebrated.’

‘Most of my dealings are with Ben Russell, who is an outstanding lawyer and court advocate.’

‘Smart, well-educated and very approachable.’

‘Ben Russell was excellent to deal with, personable, accommodating and thoroughly across the issues and invested in the case.’

‘For investment funds engagements, the Lane Neave team worked to tight deadlines and helped push the engagements forward. They provided a very quick turnaround on documents and were focused on enabling us to achieve the right outcomes.’

‘Claire Evans gave us confidence in the firm’s ability to provide comprehensive and appropriate advice to the detail we required.’

‘Alex Stone was able to deliver appropriate advice and documents to tight deadlines and made himself available where required at short notice to support various engagements.’

‘They are thorough, detail-oriented, but also reasonably pragmatic and effective.’

‘I find Joelle Grace to be thorough, persistent, helpful, pragmatic and knowledgeable about inbound investment. She has become our trusted counsel in the APAC region.’

‘A strong South Island corporate and commercial team.’

‘Joelle Grace is a rising star, with her calm and efficient manner winning her work.’

‘Joelle Grace is a trusted advisor for the management of M&A transactions. She provides clear, well considered advice and is reliable and efficient with her project management of transactions.’

‘The Lane Neave team are quick to respond and get into the detail of complex engagements. They have provided well thought-out advice with a commercial view.’

‘Claire Evans’ insight and pragmatic commercial input was much appreciated, particularly for complex matters.’

‘Our dealings with Lane Neave have been very professional, efficent and knowledgable in overseas companies operating in New Zealand. We will continue to use Lane Neave on all future matters.’

‘A leading team in the environment space, especially when it comes to mining.’

‘Joshua Leckie is an outstanding partner, who is well regarded for his work in the environment space.’

‘Highly effective practice, cost efficient and knowledgable.’

‘The Lane Neave resource management team is incredible. They are dedicated and knowledgeable. It is always a pleasure to work with them and they look after their clients very well. Their work is efficient, high quality, focused and always on point.’

‘Joshua Leckie is always available to give efficient and focused advice. He has a great understanding of our values and goes the extra mile to ensure we feel supported and well-resourced. Josh is down to earth and a pleasure to work with.’

‘Katharine Hockley is intelligent, savvy and gives thoughtful and thorough advice. Katharine is kind, practical, and also ensures we feel well supported.’

‘They make a real effort to understand and work with our business needs.’