Brookfields Lawyers

Business, Property & Finance

We achieve strategic, high-value results across a range of complex commercial challenges.

Whether you are a large private commercial concern, a public entity or a small-to-medium business enterprise (SME), Brookfields Lawyers’ business, property and finance team can help you cut through the complexities of doing business. With expert advice, astute strategies, robust structure and skillful negotiation, our team of experts collaborates to help you manage risk, achieve objectives and leverage opportunities.

We can advise on

Corporate & Commercial Law

• Banking
• Finance & Insolvency
• Business & Commercial
• Competition Law
• Construction & Building
• Consumer Law
• Franchising & Licensing
• Information Technology
• Intellectual Property
• Leasing
• Overseas Investment
• Property
• Unit Titles
• Venture Capital

Property

• Building Law Regulation
• Infrastructure
• Lease Issues & Disputes
• Mãori-owned Assets
• Residential Real Eseate
• Retirement Villages
• Rural & Farming Law
• Insolvency, Receiverships & Bankruptcy

Employment Law

• Disciplinary & dismissal
• Employment agreements
• Employment & immigration
• Employment restructuring
• Health & safety
• Restraint of trade
• Workplace policies

Protect your position with robust legal representation, advocacy and dispute resolution.

With our depth of resource and experience, we have an exceptional reputation for results across all courts and tribunals. Our experienced litigators understand the complexities and challenging dynamics of dispute situations, and the need to balance outcomes with the risk of action.

Our focus is on securing the best outcome, working to achieve solutions with efficiency in order to mitigate loss and protect your position. This includes advice, negotiation, representation and mediation.

We can advice on

Dispute Resolution & Litigation

• Alternative dispute resolution
• Building law regulation
• Commercial disputes
• Debt recovery
• Defamation and media
• Insolvency, receiverships & bankruptcy
• Insurance
• Intellectual property and technology
• Judicial review
• Leaky buildings
• Liquor licensing
• Property disputes
• Unit Titles
• Venture Capital

Built on a foundation of experience, knowledge and results, our 160-year longevity is down to our ability to continually innovate, challenge ideas, and look outside the boundaries of traditional thinking.

OUR TEAM

We’ve constructed a team with a depth of individual expertise, to create a collective force as one of New Zealand’s leading corporate and private law practices. Relationship-driven, collaborative and focused on successful outcomes; our industry-leading practitioners help clients identify opportunities, mitigate risk and achieve objectives through robust legal advice, demystified through approachable, pragmatic communication.