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10 February 2012
Professor Rob Salmond’s claims (reported in the New Zealand Herald on Tuesday) that the rich are taxed less in New Zealand than in comparable countries because New Zealand has a comprehensive GST but no capital gains tax ignores some important facts, says Casey Plunket, a member of the 2010 Tax Working Group and a tax partner at Chapman Tripp.
10 January 2012
Chapman Tripp was one of the top 20 legal advisers for mergers and acquisitions in Australasia in 2011, according to recently released research into global M&A activity. Chapman Tripp was the only New Zealand firm to feature in the table of Australian and New Zealand law firms, released by global financial information publisher Thomson Reuters in January.
12 December 2011
Chapman Tripp is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Partner, Garth Gallaway, in the firm’s Christchurch office, effective 12 December 2011.
Chapman Tripp is pleased to announce three new partners in the firm’s Auckland office, two in the Wellington office and one in the Christchurch office. The firm’s new partners are members of Chapman Tripp’s litigation and dispute resolution, financial services regulation, finance and resource management practices.
01 December 2011
Chapman Tripp is pleased to announce five new partners in the firm’s Auckland and Wellington offices, effective 1 December.
28 November 2011
Chapman Tripp is the only New Zealand law firm to be ranked Tier One across all practice areas listed in the 2012 edition of IFLR1000 Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms.
26 September 2011
Chapman Tripp is pleased to congratulate five new senior solicitors from the firm’s Wellington and Christchurch corporate, litigation and resource management teams on their promotions, effective 1 September.
02 September 2011
It is an article of faith lying at the core of corporate and securities law that, as the American jurist Louis Brandeis famously observed, “sunlight is the best disinfectant”. Securities offering documents must disclose all material matters, financial advisers must disclose commissions - and companies must disclose senior executive’s remuneration. But is our faith misplaced? In the case of executive remuneration disclosure, perhaps.
05 August 2011
Chapman Tripp has pledged substantial funding over a five year period to support the establishment of the Chapman Tripp Chair in Corporate and Commercial Law at The University of Auckland's Faculty of Law. The agreement between The University of Auckland and Chapman Tripp is the first time that a New Zealand law firm has provided funding for a professorial chair.
28 June 2011
The Australian Federal Court’s Centro judgment yesterday in relation to directors’ duties is relevant to New Zealand also, says Chapman Tripp partner Roger Wallis.
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