Nick specialises in structuring for Māori, private equity, businesses and charities.
Nick was the independent expert to the parliamentary select committee on the Limited Partnership legislation. Limited Partnerships are one of the most significant structuring initiatives in recent times. Nick also leads our Māori Services Group, Te Waka Ture, within Chapman Tripp.
Nick is an honorary lecturer at the University of Auckland, lecturing on limited partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. He is also co-author of Wells' Limited Partnership Handbook published by LexisNexis.
Nick joined Chapman Tripp in March 2003, having been a partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s Sydney office. He is happy advising clients on both sides of the Tasman.
Nick is a trustee of KiwiAde (a New Zealand charity helping Namibian children in need), on the committee of the New Zealand Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and has previously been a member of Chapman Tripp’s board. He assists a number of community organisations including the Sir Hugh Kawharu Foundation, Te Potiki National Trust, Sir Peter Blake Trust, and the First Foundation.
Recent experience
Nick's experience includes:
negotiating and documenting the Maui Indigo Fund, one of New Zealand’s most recent and largest private investment funds with investment from within New Zealand and offshore
establishing a number of private equity funds using corporate and/or limited partnership structures, and
advising Ngāpuhi on structuring its commercial and fisheries activities.