Matthew Booth > Wotton + Kearney > Wellington, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile
Wotton + Kearney Offices
LEVEL 13, HARBOUR TOWER
2 HUNTER STREET
WELLINGTON
New Zealand
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Matthew Booth
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Matt acts for insurers and their clients across a range of practice areas including material damage, business interruption, general liability, professional indemnity, and statutory liability. Matt has extensive experience in the construction and property sectors having been heavily involved in the complex issues arising out of the defective repair of homes damaged by the Christchurch earthquakes, including insurers’ responsibility for this damage and recovery against responsible builders, contractors, and project managers. Matt has handled the leading cases in this area and regularly appears in the District Court, High Court, Canterbury Earthquake Insurance Tribunal, and in mediations and judicial settlement conferences.
In addition, Matt helps insureds defend charges laid under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and Resource Management Act 1991. He also acts in disciplinary proceedings against professionals such as solicitors, accountants, builders, and electricians.
Matt regularly handles subrogated recoveries for insurers.
Matt has been recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 2021 insurance rankings and was named in the inaugural NZ Lawyer Rising Stars list for 2020.
Lawyer Rankings
New Zealand > Insurance
(Rising stars)Market-leading practice Wotton + Kearney represents major players in the New Zealand and London markets, as well as local brokers and corporate insureds. Key areas of work include general liability, financial lines, complex property claims, employment practices liability, cyber/privacy and subrogated recoveries. Managing partner in Wellington Antony Holden
is supported by a sizeable team in Auckland and Wellington including professional indemnity specialist Mathew Francis, experts in material damage and business interruption claims Richard Flinn and Caroline Laband, as well as senior partner Peter Leman. Misha Henaghan, Shane Swinerd and counsels Andrew Moore, Matthew Booth and Hugh King are also recommended for such claims. Rebecca Scott leads on employment litigation.