SRATEGIC LEGAL COUNSEL
AND FAMILY OFFICER

Coordinated advice, prompt action, best outcomes.

Legal Affairs Management provides expert general legal counsel and discreet family officer advisory services to businesses, families, and individuals in New Zealand, and to overseas clients looking to establish, administer or expand their presence here.

Whether you are navigating complex structures, proposed acquisitions, disposals, managing risk, planning succession, resolving disputes, or developing your business, we synchronize advice across all areas of your affairs so each decision supports your broader goals.

When your interests extend well beyond New Zealand we leverage our global network of trusted advisors to ensure seamless, coordinated counsel.

We also serve as trusted advisors to legal practitioners, helping them navigate practice transitions, succession planning, exits—whether through sales, mergers, or employee buyouts—and resolving issues and disputes both within and outside of the practice.

FAMILY OFFICER

Your family officer for comprehensive legal counsel across business, wealth and generations.

Comprehensive legal counsel across business, wealth and generations.

Comprehensive legal counsel across business, wealth and generations.

We are strategic counsel for multifaceted, multigenerational, multijurisdictional families.

Often family structures require coordinated legal advice and action with consistent oversight particularly when it comes to questions of governance, compliance and legal / quasi-legal challenges across all of a family’s affairs. We assist our clients with their trusts, other asset-holding structures, businesses and other activities to ensure that they achieve their objectives.

FAMILY OFFICER

General Legal Counsel

End-to-end general counsel services, strategically delivered.

We are general legal counsel for a number of corporates and other organisations and advise, coordinate and implement legal and other initiatives, solutions, compliance and umbrella protections across the full ambit of an organisation’s affairs.

GENERAL COUNSEL

INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS

Helping international clients get established with confidence.

To help establish a position or bolthole in Aotearoa/New Zealand, we work with a wide range of experts to provide legal / quasi-legal services to our clients, this is often in their quest for permanent residency, citizenship, or dual citizenship. We have a wealth of experts available to us, relating to immigration, taxation, construction and the full ambit of services required for your business and other functions.

INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Making the legal system work for you.

We help you anticipate challenges and structure your affairs to avoid problems before they arise. But when things do go wrong, we're equally skilled at resolving complex disputes, navigating litigation, and finding pragmatic solutions that protect your interests. We are known to deliver strategic momentum towards prompt, practical, commercially sensible outcomes, directly as your advocate or in providing a second opinion. We work hard to remove every unwanted distraction from your affairs and in managing your lawyers and advisers in New Zealand and elsewhere.

DISPUTES

Legal Profession

Trusted advisors to the legal profession.

Often resolutions to challenges for legal firms benefit from input from without, from above the mire. We provide lawyer-to-the-lawyer services with regard to succession planning, practice transitions, professional challenges and strategic decision-making. We are also experienced working with lawyers’ insurers in the face of possible claim proceedings.

LEGAL PROFESSION

Delivering Excellence

Our philosophy is simple - delivering excellence.

We pride ourselves in anticipating challenges early, coordinating trusted advice, acting decisively when required and helping clients protect what matters most to them.

We are the fence at the top of the cliff but if required we are very effective triage.