victoria stewart appointed as CEO
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Victoria Stewart as chief executive officer of the firm, effective from 1 April 2016. Victoria also re-joins the firm as a partner from that date, after working part-time in 2016. Victoria is a senior commercial lawyer who is widely respected by both customers and suppliers in the […]
2015 capital raising numbers
At the start of each year, we like to spend some time analysing data on the transactions which we worked on in the previous year. The numbers are now in and we’re pleased to report that 2015 was an incredible year for our corporate lawyers advising on capital raising deals. Here are some of the […]
‘clbuttic’ find/replace mistakes
In the midst of crawling through 50+ page contracts we do get odd moments of humour. Yesterday’s one was courtesy of Word’s find/replace feature. Find/replace is a pretty useful tool for lawyers – e.g. if you’re doing a software licence agreement for Company X that is pretty similar to one you previously did for Company Y, […]
john holt on kiwi tech companies who land in the states
In our third blog on capital raising in the USA, I chat with John Holt, co-founder and Chairman of the Kiwi Landing Pad. A serial entrepreneur in his own right, John co-founded Sonar6 in 2006, which was later acquired by a NASDAQ-listed US company in 2013. Although Sonar6 only ever took money from NZ investors, […]
welcome averill dickson to our auckland office
The Kindrik Partners team continues to grow this year, and we are delighted to welcome Averill Dickson to our Auckland office. Averill joins us from Simpson Grierson, where she was a Senior Associate in their ICT team. With almost 20 years in the technology sector under her belt, Averill has a keen interest in this area, […]
welcoming lee bagshaw to kindrik partners from singapore
We are very excited to welcome English qualified corporate technology lawyer Lee Bagshaw to the Kindrik Partners team. Lee will work as a consultant at the firm until he has completed the requirements to be admitted as a New Zealand lawyer. We expect him to become a partner at the firm once he has completed those […]
employee share schemes – let’s get cracking ministers!
For years, NZ tech companies and their employees have been held back by NZ’s securities laws governing private company employee share schemes. Overseas high growth technology hubs are fueled by a high level of employee equity participation, usually in the form of generous option schemes. Yet in New Zealand, it’s illegal to offer these schemes to […]
