Peter Duncan > 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 Duncan
Work Department
Property and Real Estate | Private Client and Trusts
Position
Partner
Career
Peter is a property law specialist, with an interest in local government property law. Peter joined Tompkins Wake as a partner in 2006 and has nearly 40 years’ experience practicing law.
Peter has taken a leading role in the delivery of property legal advice to the firms Local Government clients, including Hamilton City Council, Rotorua Lakes Council, and others. In addition Peter is an expert in strategic asset planning, working with our private clients on personal asset planning and property related matters.
Peter has acted for and advised:
- The development, subdivision and sale of a very large greenfield residential development in Te Atatu Peninsula for Waitakere Properties Limited (1995-2004)
- Negotiating complex contracts for the construction and operation of a wind farm at Te Uku for a Farmer Client (2007)
- Helping design and implement the strategy for the sale and securitisation of Hamilton City Council’s pensioner housing portfolio (2015-16)
- Designing and implementing succession strategies for several successful Waikato families (2006-16)
- On the complexities relating to land status and development potential of significant landholdings by Hamilton City Council (2013-16)
Memberships
Senior member of the Hamilton Caledonian Society’s Pipe Band
Trustee of the Lewis Turrell Memorial Trust
Life member of The City of Auckland Pipe Band
Education
LLB, University of Auckland
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.