Holland Beckett Law

We can help you with your business needs and add value to your commercial transactions and every day business operations. Our expertise is based on experience gained by working with a wide range of clients from local, regional and national industries.

Examples of work we have advised on:

• Buying and selling businesses
• Starting and exiting a business
• Asset and business structuring
• Shareholder, joint venture and partnership agreements
• Construction contracts
• Terms of trade
• Franchising, licencing, supply and distribution contracts
• Commercial contracts
• Intellectual property

Holland Beckett Law offers comprehensive property law and conveyancing advice to clients.  Whether buying, selling, leasing, subdividing, building or renting, our experienced team of property specialists will help you get the most out of your property investment.

We advise on:

Residential Property

• Sale and purchase agreements
• Residential tenancies
• Building contracts
• Unit titles and cross leases
• Bank lending and mortgages
• Residential subdivision and section purchases

Rural Property

• Buying and selling farms and orchards
• Orchard, farm and forestry leases
• Rural subdivision and Resource Management Act issues
• Water consents
• Fencing and boundary disputes

Commercial Property

• Buying and selling of commercial and industrial land
• Commercial lease drafting and negotiation
• Sub-leases
• Rent review disputes and mediation
• Overseas Investment Commission consent applications
• Commercial and industrial subdivisions

Our approach to resolving disputes centres on getting you the result you want in a proactive and positive manner.  We offer impartial and independent advice about the best dispute resolution process to use to achieve that result.

If you want the matter handled in court, then our civil litigation team can conduct your case in all courts, including the District Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

However, if you prefer a less adversarial approach in achieving a solution, then we can assist as counsel or as mediator in mediation, conciliation, arbitration and other methods of alternative dispute resolution.

We advise on:

• Property and lease disputes
• Commercial and contract disputes
• Trust and estate administration disputes
• Company and securities disputes
• Insolvency and corporate recovery
• Construction law including leaky homes
• Arbitration and mediation
• Environment Court disputes
• Maori Land Court disputes
• Regulatory prosecutions
• Contentious maritime disputes
• Judicial review
• Arbitrations
• Sports law

Holland Beckett Law offers a comprehensive employment advisory service from our team of experienced employment lawyers.

When our clients enter into employment relationships, our focus is on structuring agreements and other arrangements to facilitate the smooth running of the relationship in the future.

When it comes to dealing with disputes that do arise, we attempt to give our clients every opportunity to work towards mutually acceptable resolutions. If this is not possible, however, we are experienced in representation in litigation at all relevant court levels.

We advise on:

• Procedures for hiring and dismissing employees
• Individual and collective employment agreements
• Disciplinary procedures
• Resolving and negotiating employment disputes
• Restructuring, redundancy and severance
• The Privacy Act 2020
• Holiday, retirement and parental leave issues
• Human rights, discrimination and disability compliance
• ACC
• Health and Safety
• Workplace bullying and harassment
• The implications of business restructuring including transferring employees
• Protection and ownership of intellectual property
• Drafting employment agreements and policies
• Defending regulatory prosecutions including health and safety prosecutions
• Defending personal grievances
• Conducting workplace investigations

At some stage in your life you may find yourself having to deal with family law issues. Family issues can be difficult and emotional, so you want to know you have a team of knowledgeable, pragmatic and professional barristers and solicitors working for you.

Holland Beckett Law has a specialist family law team with a proven track record of success, and we are pleased to offer you our strength and knowledge in this area. We provide a personal and confidential service.

Our Family Lawyers advise on:

• Relationship property division on end of marriage or de facto relationship
  - Negotiating and advising on Relationship Property Agreements
  - Court proceedings
• Spousal maintenance
• Contracting Out Agreements (“pre-nuptial agreements”) and asset protection
• Care of children (“custody”) and guardianship issues
• Protection Orders (obtaining or defending) and related family violence matters
• Child support
• Applications under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 such as:
  - Appointment of Property Manager and Welfare Guardian to manage affairs of an incapacitated person where no EPOA is in place
  - Review of use of EPOA powers where concerns arise
• Estate claims & contesting Wills
• Disputes involving Trusts
• Dissolution of marriage (“divorce”)
• Paternity issues
• Adoption

If you cannot afford to pay for a lawyer, you may be eligible for legal aid for Family Court proceedings and family disputes.  Click here for more details.