
Private Wealth Law
High Net Worth Guide 2025 : New Zealand
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Provided by Martelli McKegg
Services include:
- Drafting Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, and Advance Medical Directives to ensure clients’ wishes are respected and legally sound
- Establishing trusts, including family trusts, foreign trusts, charitable trusts, and trading trusts, designed to protect assets and achieve specific financial goals
- Providing independent professional trustee services, offering expertise and impartial oversight to manage trust assets effectively
- Ongoing trust administration, ensuring compliance with legal obligations and the proper distribution of assets
- Reviewing, varying, resettling, and administering bespoke trust structures, adapting to changing circumstances or objectives
- Advising executors, trustees, and beneficiaries on their rights and responsibilities, helping them navigate complex duties and obligations
- Providing expert advice on Occupation Right Agreements, ensuring proper planning for retirement living arrangements
- Assisting with business and family succession planning, asset structuring, and restructuring to ensure the smooth transfer of wealth and ownership
- Offering guidance in situations where someone has been deemed mentally incapable of managing their affairs, helping families make critical decisions
- Trust and Estate disputes
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Catherine Atchison
Catherine Atchison is a consultant on trust and estate matters. Her practice also includes charitable trust matters. She works with high net worth individuals and families.
Band 3 
Band 3 
Emma Foster
Emma Foster brings a comprehensive approach to assisting clients with managing and structuring their private wealth. She assists high net worth families and individuals on creating trust structures, estate administration matters and also litigation related to estates and wills.
Band 3 
Band 3 
Timothy Orr
Timothy Orr provides trust and estate administration advice and represents clients in trust litigation.
Ranked Individuals at Martelli McKegg (3)
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Melissa Clark
Head of Department

Tara Grant

Melissa Clark

Emma Foster
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Timothy Orr
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Catherine Atchison
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