Andrew Leete
Partner, T+P Chair

Having represented some of the largest and most innovative commercial enterprises in the country, Andrew is highly attuned to what it takes to succeed commercially in an increasingly competitive and fast-paced world.

While highly competent in all aspects of commercial law, Andrew specialises in company establishment and restructuring, acquisition, disposing of companies, commercial undertakings, forming commercial joint ventures and banking and finance. He has a similarly impressive track record in corporate, commercial and securities law.

andrew.leete@tp.co.nz
021 221 7718

Mark Tavendale
Partner

Mark offers an unrivalled expertise in applying the law to the agribusiness sector to deliver the desired outcomes for his clients. He has considerable experience in the sale and purchase of large and complex farming operations, succession planning, New Zealand's overseas investment laws and high country tenure reviews.

His business acumen is widely acknowledged and he is as highly regarded for his strategic ability as he is for his technical skills.

mark.tavendale@tp.co.nz
021 221 0724

Mark Dineen
Partner

With a previous career in the agricultural livestock sector here in Canterbury, Mark has an intimate understanding of what it takes to succeed in agri-business. Mark advises private and corporate clients and equity partnerships in relation to property, commercial, and estate planning

mark.dineen@tp.co.nz
021 229 0727

Olivia Macgregor
Partner (on parental leave)

Olivia advises clients on a range of commercial and corporate legal issues, with a focus on acquiring and divesting businesses, capital raising and securities law, structural advice, and financing requirements.

Olivia’s clients operate across various sectors, including information technology, construction and agri-business, and range from closely held businesses through to large corporates.  

olivia.macgregor@tp.co.nz
021 221 6654

Alana Crampton
Partner

From a dairying background, Alana is well equipped when advising families and businesses around the complexities of rural and commercial acquisitions and sales, leasing and financing.  She has strong expertise in succession planning and asset protection under New Zealand’s relationship property laws.  Alana has strong relationships and connections right across the Canterbury region.

alana.crampton@tp.co.nz
021 965 801

Kirsten Todd
Partner

Kirsten specialises in corporate and commercial law. Her expertise is in banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, commercial contracts and commercial property and statutory and regulatory compliance. She is as adept acting for small businesses as she is for multinationals requiring syndicated funding arrangements.

Her business pathway into law gives her a real-world understanding of the complexities of financing and the broader impact of financial matters on a business and on its stakeholders. The combination of this commercial pragmatism, her understanding of the legislative regime around the financial sector and her intuitive understanding of the peripheral issues often at play is reflected in the solutions Kirsten curates for her clients.

kirsten.todd@tp.co.nz
027 320 7097

Amanda Strong
Partner

Having been General Counsel for a telecommunications infrastructure business and a member of the executive team, Amanda is a strategic, commercially focussed and pragmatic lawyer.  Amanda has real insight into business challenges.

 Amanda advises on all aspects of business law, with particular expertise in infrastructure, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, commercial contracts and commercial property across a variety of sectors.  Amanda has negotiated significant infrastructure, supply, services, operational and technology development contracts and has led complex mergers, acquisitions and investment transactions.

amanda.strong@tp.co.nz
027 212 7329

Bill Dwyer
Consultant

Bill’s primary focus is corporate and commercial law catering to a diverse client base from international corporates to small enterprises over various sectors in both New Zealand and abroad.  

While highly competent and experienced in all aspects of commercial law, Bill specialises in establishment and restructuring, acquisition, disposing of companies, banking and finance and securities. 

In addition to being a highly experienced lawyer, Bill advises companies on compliance matters including corporate governance and holds various independent directorships.

 bill.dwyer@tp.co.nz
021 831 701

Kit Mouat
Consultant

Kit brings a detailed and unsurpassed understanding of all land matters to the team.

His particular expertise relates to conservation land and Queen's chain issues and resource law - including foreshore and seabed. Kit has been involved with many a high-country tenure review.

Kit is one of a few accredited suppliers to LINZ (Land Information New Zealand) in the country.

kit.mouat@tp.co.nz
021 278 0790

Linda Adams
Senior Associate

Linda’s expertise is in commercial and property matters and advises clients around the establishment of family trusts, asset planning and all matters relating to estate administration.

Aside from her technical competence, Linda is highly regarded by peers and clients alike for her empathetic approach to a client’s particular circumstances.

linda.adams@tp.co.nz
021 220 0729

Sara Jamieson       
Senior Associate

Sara specialises in civil and commercial litigation, relationship property and employment matters. 

She is an experienced courtroom advocate, having been a Crown Prosecutor, conducting jury trials, regulatory prosecutions and appearing in the High Court and Court of Appeal.   

However, she also understands that not all disputes have to be resolved in court and will work alongside clients to solve problems in the best way for them or their business. 

She also acted as Senior Legal Adviser to the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission. 

sara.jamieson@tp.co.nz
021 221 7725

Jonathan Pow
Senior Associate

Jonathan is an experienced commercial lawyer, providing corporates and business owners with sound advice in respect of various contracts (including construction contracts), business transactions and restructurings, financing arrangements, leasing and disputes.    

He also advises insurers on policy response and liability matters and has particular expertise in acting for bodies corporate. 

jonathan.pow@tp.co.nz
021 070 2068

Matt Davidson
Senior Associate

Matt works in our commercial team and specialises in company establishment and restructuring, acquisition, disposing of companies, commercial undertakings, forming commercial joint ventures and banking and finance.

 matt.davidson@tp.co.nz 
021 841 231

Greer Miller
Associate

Greer is an experienced commercial law practitioner, providing corporates with sound advice in respect of contracts, business transactions, financing arrangements, and disputes. She also advises on property transactions.  Greer has worked in both urban and rural environments, in NZ and London.

greer.miller @tp.co.nz
021 140 5253

Katrina Palmer
Associate

Katrina principally advises on both rural and residential transactions, including the sale, purchase and leasing of farming properties.   Coming from a farming background, Katrina has a good understanding of the challenges clients face in this area.

She also assists clients with complex residential transactions including lifestyle block purchases and purchasing properties “off the plan” and financing related to this.   She also works closely with her colleagues in relation to succession planning for farming families.

katrina.palmer@tp.co.nz
021 841 812

Renee Powell
Associate

Renee specialises in all aspects of agri-business and private client related matters.   

With a family background of dairy farmers and having spent most of her legal career as a private client lawyer Renee is well placed to assist with all your property affairs extending from assets planning and family structures and has a real world understanding of your farming needs. 

Renee’s commitment to her clients, and their needs, has meant that very rarely is a client left unsatisfied.

renee.powell@tp.co.nz
027 434 2726

Julian Springer
Employment Advisor (English qualified solicitor)

 Julian specialises in employment and business immigration. He is as adept acting for small businesses as he is for multinationals with hundreds of staff. Julian is an experienced employment solicitor who has worked in the city of London for one of the largest firms in the UK. In addition, to his experience in the city Julian has worked in other mid-tier firms in the UK in the sports sector as an employment and immigration lawyer.

 julian.springer@tp.co.nz
021 919 234

Jacqui Watson
Associate (currently on parental leave)

Jacqui principally advises on rural transactions, including equity partnerships.  Living on a dairy farm, Jacqui has real world understanding of the challenges clients face in this area.

She is also experienced in matters relating to subdivisions, and assists clients with conveyancing, commercial leases and refinancing related to this.

jacqui.watson @tp.co.nz
027 655 2431

Johanna King
Associate

Johanna is a solicitor in our litigation team and specialises in a number of dispute resolution areas, including civil and commercial disputes, employment and debt recovery. Johanna has appeared in the District and High Courts as lead counsel, and has also appeared in the Court of Appeal as junior counsel. 

Originally from the West Coast, Johanna understands the challenges that rural clients face.  Johanna also has a background in resource management, including providing advice on consent compliance matters, all the way to representing clients through resource consent hearings and judicial review. 

 johanna.king@tp.co.nz
021 917 140

Greer Halloran
Associate

Greer was first admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and gained two years’ experience as a solicitor at a North Queensland firm that shares T+P’s focus on agribusiness and commerce. Having relocated to New Zealand, Greer works in our commercial team, providing advice to clients on a range of commercial and corporate legal matters, including company establishment and restructuring, business acquisitions and sales, banking and financing arrangements, and leasing.

 greer.halloran@tp.co.nz
021 642 224

Gemma Wragg
Associate

Gemma is a specialist agri lawyer.  Her farming background allows her to provide both practical and legal advice to clients on succession planning, rural property sales, purchases, leases and financing. 

Gemma’s calm approach to complex and intergenerational situations ensures she is sought after to structure and protect assets for the next generation.  

gemma.wragg@tp.co.nz
027 318 2141

Jo Mechaelis-Wall
Senior Solicitor

Jo’s practice is in private client work and specialises in estate administration, wills and enduring powers of attorney.  She has a wide range of legal experience and supports families through a difficult time in their lives.  With experience in pastoral work as well, Jo brings empathy and understanding to estates of many sizes and complexities.

jo.mechaelis-wall@tp.co.nz
027 383 7666

Linda de Paor
Senior Solicitor

Linda is an experienced property and commercial  lawyer who advises on a range of  property matters and succession planning, including  family trusts, with a keen interest in the area of relationship property. 

Linda is also admitted as a Solicitor of the High Court of Ireland and gained seven years post qualification experience including a four year tenure as in-house counsel at one of Ireland's largest local authorities. Linda also worked as a company lawyer in the financial services sector for Ireland's largest provider of  fund administration services.

linda.depaor@tp.co.nz
021 0283 1423

Emma van der Kley
Senior Solicitor

Emma is an experienced property and commercial law practitioner and advises on a range of property and commercial matters including; residential and commercial conveyancing, financing, subdivisions, restructuring of companies and trusts, as well as succession planning.

Emma’s positive attitude, efficiency and strategic advice assist clients with achieving the best outcome.

emma.vanderkley@tp.co.nz
027 362 2118

Claire Brownlie
Senior Solicitor

Claire has a broad general practice knowledge with particular experience in residential conveyancing, including assisting first home buyers with Kiwisaver withdrawals, house and land packages and build contracts.  Claire has personal knowledge in the residential building industry which assists with those types of transactions.    

Claire also works in the areas of estate administration, wills, EPAs, trusts and succession planning and is always happy to go the extra mile for clients.

claire.brownlie@tp.co.nz
027 371 4376

Isabella Senior
Senior Solicitor

Isabella is a solicitor in our private client team, and offers advice on a variety of matters including residential property matters (particularly working with first home buyers), personal financing, trusts, wills and succession planning. Isabella is very thorough and pays great attention to detail. She is warm and personable and always works with clients to achieve the best outcome for them.

isabella.senior@tp.co.nz
027 841 6086

Michelle Chen
Senior Solicitor

Michelle is a specialist immigration lawyer.  Being a first-generation New Zealand born Chinese, and being able to communicate in Mandarin and Cantonese, she empathises with the challenges migrants can face navigating through the New Zealand immigration system.

 Michelle provides effective and practical advice on various migration pathways to New Zealand.  She is well-travelled and is comfortable working with clients from different nationalities and cultures.

michelle.chen@tp.co.nz
021 948 680

Grainne Ryan
Solicitor

Grainne graduated with an Irish Law Degree and recently completed her studies in New Zealand to become a solicitor in our litigation team.  Grainne offers our clients advice on relationship property and employment matters. She is very approachable and thrives to achieve the best outcome for our clients.

grainne.ryan@tp.co.nz    
021 197 5904

 Emma Booth
Solicitor

Emma is a solicitor with our litigation team, offering advice on both civil and employment queries and disputes. Emma’s previous experience in the building department of a local authority gives her a unique insight into commercial and construction disputes. Emma also assists clients with their relationship property matters, offering pragmatic and strategic advice.

emma.booth@tp.co.nz
021 197 7234

Jared Higby
Solicitor

Jared is a solicitor in our litigation team and specialises in a number of dispute resolution areas, including civil and commercial disputes, employment and debt recovery. Jared has appeared in the District and High Courts.

Jared previously worked in Chambers as an employed barrister, specialising in acting for homeowners in earthquake disputes.

jared.higby@tp.co.nz
027 238 0838

Rose Robinson
Solicitor

Rose is based in our commercial and agri teams, working with clients on a variety of areas including company incorporations, refinancing and trusts. Having grown up on a farm in North Canterbury, Rose enjoys helping commercial and farming clients find practical solutions to their business matters.

rose.robinson@tp.co.nz
027 244 3368

Honor Mills
Solicitor

Honor works within our private client team, working with clients on various matters including residential property (with a particular enjoyment of working with first home buyers), subdivisions, financing, trusts, wills and succession planning.

Honor is hardworking and prides herself on her attention to detail. She is approachable and efficient and will always work to achieve the best outcome for her clients.

honor.mills@tp.co.nz
027 772 6973

Ben Methven
Solicitor

Ben is based in our commercial team, and works with clients on a range of corporate and commercial matters including company establishment and restructuring, acquisitions, and financing. Ben also has a keen interest in resource management, and works closely our litigation team to advise clients on resource consent and compliance matters. He is hard-working and approachable, and driven to achieve practical results for our clients.

ben.methven@tp.co.nz
027 551 2823

Dallas Keenan
Senior Legal Executive

Dallas has extensive experience in all aspects of property law specialising in residential and rural conveyancing, refinancing, subdivisions and boundary adjustments.  As a member of the property team she also advises clients on Trust, Wills and Powers of Attorney.

Dallas has a wealth of practical experience and is able to translate that experience into down to earth, good sense, practical legal advice to clients of the firm and prides herself in providing clients with an efficient friendly service. 

dallas.keenan@tp.co.nz    
021 188 5762

Kelly Wing (on parental leave)
Registered Legal Executive

Kelly works in our private client team and has extensive experience working with clients on residential conveyancing, wills, power of attorney documents and succession planning matters.

Kelly also provides advice in relation to family trusts and particularly reviewing our client’s current trusts whilst considering the changes to rest home subsidies and the new legislation due to come in January 2021.

kelly.wing@tp.co.nz    
027 469 7609

Rachael Cridge
Business Manager

Rachael is critical to the effective and efficient running of the firm. Her drive is fuelled by a sincere passion to support the team in delivering the very best outcomes for T+P clients. With a background as a legal executive, Rachael fully understands the business of law.

Rachael comes from a well-known family of Central Canterbury seed growers and merchants. Her understanding of the challenges our farming and related commercial clients face in running their businesses greatly complements her understanding of the legal world.

rachael.cridge@tp.co.nz
021 663 551 

Jo Preston
Finance Manager

 Jo is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a wealth of experience that spans corporate, commercial and not-for-profit sectors.

Jo is responsible for the firm’s finance functions, including management of our Trust Accounts.

Aside from her obvious financial skills, Jo brings many other business management skills to the T+P team.

 jo.preston@tp.co.nz
027 485 9856

Clinton Tamati
General Manager, Trust Management

Clinton has 15 years of experience in the trustee and financial services industry and has built a wealth of trustee and trust management knowledge and expertise. Formerly a Senior Client Manager at Perpetual Guardian, Clinton’s background and training as a financial planner and as a trust and estate practitioner mean he is well placed to help clients make the best decisions for the protection of their assets.

clinton.tamati@tp.co.nz
021 916 226 

Kirsten Reekie
Senior Trust Manager

As Senior Trust Manager, Kirsten is responsible for assisting clients with their trust management including trust reviews, governance and compliance and ongoing relationship management.

With over 20 years’ experience as a Legal Secretary for various Christchurch law firms, Kirsten brings her knowledge of trusts and estates to her role.

kirsten.reekie@tp.co.nz
022 657 3828