At DLA Piper New Zealand, the team has recently acted on health and safety and employment-related M&A work, in addition to a wealth of litigious matters before the Employment Court, High Court, and Employment Relations Authority. The team is headed from Auckland by Laura Scampion, who leverages over 20 years of experience and is dual qualified in both local and UK law. A key distinguisher of the practice is its close collaboration with the firm’s wider APAC and international offices. Carl Blake is a favourite among clients, and leverages his prior experience at the Human Rights Commission when working on contentious matters.
Testimonials
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‘The employment team at DLA Piper are superb technically and can handle the most complex of issues. In saying that they are also willing to assist on minor matters and do it in such a way that is right-sized for the issue at hand. We use DLA Piper for all our employment matters.'
‘Carl Blake is an absolute standout, not only in the DLA team but across the NZ employment law landscape. His calm and pragmatic approach means matters get dealt with quickly and without the level of angst that often comes with the territory. He simply gets on with the job with a minimum amount of fuss and makes dealing with these matters far easier than it might otherwise be.’
Key clients
- Discovery Communications LLC
- Harrison Grierson
Work highlights
- Advised BlackRock on the acquisition by GRP III NZ Bidco Limited of 100% of the shares in solarZero Limited by way of a scheme of arrangement.
- Advising Kono on all employment aspects of the sale of its seafood division to Talley's.