Legal Appointments Roundup: 14 July

• Blake Carey - litigation and commercial
• Sam Ting – patent (chemical and life sciences)
• Ben Williams – trade marks

Senior associate:

• Megan Donnett - patent (engineering and ICT)

Associate:

• Angela Kim – trade marks
• Elliot Mollet-Wright – trade marks

Anthony Harper

Anthony Harper promoted the following as of 1 July:

Partner (subject to fulfilment of Law Society requirements):

• Jordan Wright – corporate
• Rebecca White – employment

Special counsel:

• Mark Allen – corporate and commercial

Senior solicitor:

• Nicholas Allen – IP (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland)
• Thomas Baker – property (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland)
• Robin Kim - corporate and commercial (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland)
• Cate McArthur - corporate and commercial (Ōtautahi Christchurch)
• Kaitlin Webley – employment (Ōtautahi Christchurch)

Dentons

Dentons promoted the following to partner as of 1 July (pending the fulfilment of Law Society requirements):

• David Newport - major projects and construction
• Jeremy Bell-Connell - dispute resolution
• Madison Hajek - major projects and construction
• Peter Callus - corporate and commercial

DLA Piper

DLA Piper promoted the following this month:

Special counsel (2 July):

• Wendy Smith - corporate and commercial (Wellington)
• Jacob Nutt - banking and finance (Auckland)

Senior associate (1 July):

• Tayla McEntee – corporate (Auckland)
• Liam Johannesson – construction (Auckland)
• Sundaresh Thangavelu - real estate (Auckland)

Hudson Gavin Martin

HGM welcomed Mark Heine, once CEO of NZX/ASX-listed IoT and SaaS company EROAD, back to the firm last month as a special counsel on its corporate team.

Lane Neave

Lane Neave brought in social media law expert Arran Hunt as a partner on the immigration law team.

MinterEllisonRuddWatts

MinterEllisonRuddWatts unveiled the following appointments:

Partner:

• Natasha Hood - construction and infrastructure projects
• Vimal Nair - infrastructure procurement and development
• Tom Fail – projects

Senior associate (as of 1 July):

• Logan Mailand - construction and infrastructure

Sean Kim - construction and infrastructure