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Australia and New Zealand Teams 2017

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Metlifecare is one of New Zealand’s largest retirement village providers owning and operating 24 retirement villages throughout the North Island of New Zealand with a legal team of four lawyers and three non-legal staff led by Andrew Peskett in his role of general counsel and company secretary. A relatively new function, Peskett states that in the last two years the position of legal counsel was created to ‘enable more work to be undertaken in-house with a more business centric approach’ and as a result the team’s legal executives have become ‘increasingly involved in both the corporate and wider legal work which adds more value to the business.’ The team has been involved in a number of cases and most significantly, ‘the legal team was heavily involved when Infratil sold their shares in April 2017. Additionally, the acquisition of part of the Pakuranga Golf Course and land in Red Beach for future village developments’. Working with an approach that is based on teamwork and camaraderie, Peskett is proud of a ‘collaborative, supportive and non-hierarchal team which has an empathetic and customer centric approach to providing excellence service. Our team culture has evolved over time and through various team development opportunities. We are all likeminded and hold a high level of integrity which results in a tight-knit, high functioning legal team’.

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