Pheroze Jagose is a partner specialising in competition, regulatory & antitrust; employment; and securities law.
Pheroze's career highlights include acting on most telecommunications competition litigation since 1995; defeating interest groups' challenge to sale of public assets; striking out challenges to $500 million tender for provision of navy vessels; striking out allegations of Securities Act breach, including on appeal to New Zealand’s ultimate Court (establishing common law limitation period precedent); obtaining findings of Securities Act breach in first Takeovers Code challenge to be heard in New Zealand; and securing the sale of substantial asset in the face of minority shareholders’ allegations of directors' misconduct.
Pheroze is listed as a leading lawyer in dispute resolution by Chambers Global and Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers.
Recent experience
Pheroze's experience includes:
- acting for Telecom in relation to Commerce Commission competition law prosecutions
- successfully defending PGG Wrightson Limited, including at the Supreme Court, on challenge to its amalgamation under Part 15 of the Companies Act
- establishing cost-based terms of interconnection between telecommunications companies in statutory arbitration
- defending allegations of Securities Act breach in forestry securitisation
- preventing rival publications from establishing themselves in competition with ACP Media
- defending clients in regulatory prosecutions under the Fair Trading and Health and Safety in Employment Acts, and
- enabling various waterfront developments to proceed, in the face of challenges to Wellington Waterfront’s activities.