SBM Legal caters to a client base of domestic and international employers, high-profile unions, and government agencies. The Auckland-based team is led by managing partner Anthony Russell and also features Penny Swarbrick, a disputes expert with a focus on the retail sector, in addition to Bridget Smith, who often oversees independent investigations. Matthew McGoldrick is a go-to for retail, manufacturing, and sports sector clients, meanwhile special counsel Tim Oldfield is an industrial relations expert.
Testimonials
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‘Significant body of knowledge across industries, well-informed, and able to contextualise our needs and advice. ’
‘Partner really understands our business, the challenges we face, the practicalities of our workplaces and implications for advice that is provided.’
Key clients
- KiwiRail Limited
- Waitemata – Te Whatu Ora Health NZ
Work highlights
- Represented Te Whatu Ora – Waitemata in a very complex case that involved the inter-relationship of the legal concept of incompatibility and medical incapacity.
- Represented Gavin Pollard in the High Court in a complex commercial dispute where employment rights and obligations and the jurisdiction of the High Court to entertain such claims (as opposed to the employment jurisdiction) was a significant aspect of the dispute.