Lane Neave is committed to solving problems and realising opportunities for our clients.
We tap into more than 150 years of experience and provide our hugely talented pool of emerging and current legal experts with the opportunity to make the complex simple.
We provide clear, decisive legal advice that gives real value and advantage to our clients, who range from multi-national corporates to small business owners and individuals.
Most of our lawyers specialise in specific areas of the law and many have become recognised experts in their chosen fields. However, everyone embraces a ‘team’ approach, which gives us a strength and depth across the whole spectrum of the law.
Lane Neave has the depth of expertise and experience to really make a difference to your business. We’ll give you decisive, strategic advice on everything from day to day transactions to complex legal cases.
Lane Neave’s litigation team has significant expertise in resolving a broad range of commercial disputes.
We are committed to working closely with our clients to understand their objectives and to help resolve disputes in a commercial and cost effective way. Our approach involves identifying the important issues early, advising on the strengths and weaknesses of the legal position, exploring the available options and then deciding upon the best strategy to resolve the dispute. We make it a priority to get to know our clients and their businesses, in order to ensure the dispute resolution strategy meets the unique needs of the client.
Our team members appear in Courts at all levels as well as specialist tribunals. We also regularly act in mediations and arbitrations when the dynamics of the dispute require an approach that does not involve issuing public Court proceedings.
We are used to acting on complex commercial litigation across a variety of industry sectors including commercial property, agribusiness, banking and finance, insolvency, insurance, and primary resources. Our team members have also acted on a number of highly contentious and novel legal disputes arising out of the Canterbury Earthquakes.
We have breadth and depth of experience in assisting clients in a range of areas. These include contractual, shareholder and insurance disputes, company receiverships and liquidations, real property disputes including caveats, lease and rent review matters, product liability, professional liability and discipline, banking and finance litigation and security enforcement, debt recovery and family trust, relationship property and family protection disputes.
The team regularly works with Mandarin and Cantonese fluent colleagues to represent Chinese clients in New Zealand corporate and property disputes.
Looking for employment law for an individual? Click here.Our Employment Law team is one of the largest and most experienced in New Zealand, with offices in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. This geographical coverage enables us to provide more immediate and intimate employment law services and representation to clients throughout the country.
We understand the complexities that come with employment law. We are known for having long established relationships with our clients and fully engaging with their business to understand their unique industries. Our approach ensures we can offer a bespoke employment law service and provide pragmatic, robust and innovative legal advice, enabling employers to make sound employment-related decisions for their business and staff.
Recognised as a leading employment practice by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Doyles Guide, we are also one of a limited number of law firms providing external employment law services to New Zealand Government agencies through the All of Government legal panel.
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We provide a full employment law service, regularly appearing at Mediations and hearings in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court and ordinary Courts, including experience in the Court of Appeal and in relation to a Supreme Court matter. We advise and represent on all aspects of employment law, including health & safety, ACC, privacy, human rights, minimum entitlements and workplace investigations.
Our health and safety expertise is in high demand. We acted on New Zealand’s first defended health and safety prosecution under the previous legislation (Department of Labour v de Spa) and have provided health and safety workshops for numerous entities, including WorkSafe (New Zealand’s health and safety Regulator), ACC (New Zealand’s accident compensation Regulator) and the New Zealand Law Society.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to raise unprecedented employment, health and safety, immigration and ACC issues. Our entire team will continue to support our clients through these challenging times with targeted, up-to-date advice.
We are genuinely passionate about what we do; we enjoy our work and our clients’ company, which we believe translates into the provision of excellent employment law services. We are at the forefront of employment law in New Zealand, which is demonstrated by the attendance at our workshops around the country.
Our focus is on delivering practical employment law advice and support. One key difference between us and our competitors is that we understand that being able to pick up the phone and receive prompt advice is important to clients. We are not the type of law firm that will produce a lengthy written opinion when a phone conversation or short email will provide the support required. However, where needed, we will provide concise, well researched employment law advice on complex matters.
Our clients can feel confident at all times that we will handle all matters with professionalism and efficiency.
Looking for Immigration Law for an individual? Click here.Our team of specialist New Zealand immigration lawyers provide expert advice and representation to corporate clients located both inside and outside New Zealand, to manage the immigration needs of expatriate and domestic employees in a way that supports the needs of both the employer and employee.
Recognised as a leading corporate immigration service provider in New Zealand, we have the largest and most respected immigration practice operating out of offices located in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Our ability to provide service is not restricted to office location, we provide robust and practical advice on any immigration project, secondment or issue, irrespective of where the instructions are provided or where the employees are located.
Our unique mix of expertise in legal, consulting and industry experience, such as recruitment and human resources, means we think from a business and a legal perspective. Our advice and solutions are tailored to our clients’ needs, and retain a strong sense of commerciality.
Our immigration law team has a foundation of extensive experience and a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of the visa process from an applicant and sponsor viewpoint. We are uniquely positioned to understand the needs of the applicant and business/sponsor to develop strategic and practical immigration solutions.
We have been chosen to represent many of the world’s leading global organisations. Our clients come from a wide range of industry sectors, including construction, IT service providers, financial services, management consultants, oil and gas, and insurance and international recruitment companies.
Our experience lies in managing the end-to-end immigration process on behalf of our clients and their employees. We work with multi-national organisations with high-volume global mobility programmes moving hundreds of people into New Zealand on an annual basis, to provide a streamlined immigration process. We also support smaller or start up organisations with one-off or unusual scenarios that require a bespoke approach.
We have a growing understanding of the full scope of the global mobility process large corporates follow when transferring talent globally and the pressure points and key stakeholders within that process. Our focus is on delivering practical, cost-effective advice and support to make navigating the immigration process for you and your employees a straight forward and trouble free process.
For more information about corporate migration visit our dedicated immigration website at www.laneneaveimmigration.co.nz
Our specialist family law team provides sensible, straight forward advice and information to our clients, often during a very difficult period in their lives.
We take care to listen to you and talk through issues, and guide you through the options to resolve matters as practically as possible and to achieve the best outcome.
Our family law team offers friendly, clear advice to a diverse range of clients and works with you to ensure solutions are found.
We have extensive experience in relationship property, trust property, trust litigation, Estate litigation including Family Protection Act claims, Testamentary Promise claims and dissolution.
Our team of specialist insurance lawyers has experience in all areas of insurance from homeowner earthquake claims, to health, life, disability, professional indemnity and general insurance. We provide innovative and practical advice and assistance to individuals as well as businesses of all sizes.
We can assist with resolution of insurance claims at every level from assisting with the loss adjustment process, to litigating insurance disputes. We have been involved in the settlement of some of New Zealand’s largest insurance claims, and in insurance related litigation the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Our insurance team is familiar not only with the complexities of insurance law, but is also able to assist in the orgainsation of expert advice in any area of insurance, and provide strategic direction as to how insurance disputes can be successfully resolved in a manner that is as effective as possible.
We are the experts in this field and have been recognised as New Zealand’s best insurance lawyers in the New Zealand Law Awards.
We are proud of contributing to community forums and workshops providing advice to home owners and business people affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. We have played a central role in assisting people to resolve their insurance claims and regenerating Christchurch.
The property market can be a daunting place to venture into and without assistance there are many pitfalls you can stumble into.
Our specialist team is best suited to work alongside you as you make decisions about what is often your single largest asset.
The team consists of four of our longest serving partners, some retired partners, consultants to the firm, an associate and many legal executives who together have a huge wealth of experience.
Between us, we have seen it all. Whether it is a first home purchase, a sale, farm acquisition or complex subdivision, we will build a team around you tailor made for your set of circumstances.
Let our team take care of the details so you can enjoy the moment.
