Nick specialises in corporate and commercial law with considerable experience across a broad range of mergers and acquisitions (including takeovers and schemes of arrangement), corporate structuring and restructuring arrangements, capital markets and securities transactions, commercial contracts and corporate governance matters.

He has significant experience with cross-border transactions, having previously been involved in a number of large-scale international financings effected using a variety of corporate and financing structures.

Nick rejoined Buddle Findlay after spending several years working in international law firms in Tokyo and New York and the in-house legal team at one of New Zealand's largest banks.

Buddle Findlay is one of New Zealand's leading commercial and public law firms, with offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and a global reach of contacts and experience.

We offer comprehensive commercial legal service advising both public and private companies on a full range of corporate and commercial issues and transactions.

Our key point of difference as a firm is our reputation as New Zealand's collaborative law firm. Our central value proposition is Ôexceptional outcomes through collaboration'.

Our team is focused on our clients and their businesses and is dedicated to providing expert advice with a strategic and commercial approach. We are acknowledged as a market leader in collaborative working relationships with our clients and their other advisers. We also take pride in our reputation as pragmatic, solution focused and approachable legal advisers.

We are committed to helping clients achieve their strategic objectives, by providing tailored, strategic and commercially focused legal advice. We are dedicated to promoting best practice, technical excellence and commercial insight across every aspect of our business.

We place great importance on team work, initiative and integrity and have a track record of maintaining strong client relationships. We operate in a highly competitive environment and have built relationships with some of New Zealand's most significant organisations. Our clients include national and multi-national corporations, private equity and venture capital funds, banks and financial institutions, state-owned enterprises, government departments, and local and other statutory authorities. We have strong links with law firms in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Asia.

Why Buddle Findlay?

• Specialist industry knowledge and the ability to contribute strategic advice in key industries
• Commercial solutions based on a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• 'Can do' flexible approach to client service
• Seamless national service - providing a fully integrated service from New Zealand's three major commercial centres - Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
• Commitment, integrity and solutions that anticipate the real problems - these are the things that sum up our approach to doing business.