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Our Litigation and Dispute Resolution team is trusted by leading corporates, financial institutions, and government entities to manage risk and resolve complex disputes efficiently. Known for strategic advocacy and commercial insight, the team advises across all forms of dispute resolution – litigation, mediation, and arbitration – with deep expertise in sectors including construction, financial services, insurance, competition, and public law. Our track record includes appearances before the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and Privy Council.

Recent work highlights

  • Booster | Acting for Booster and its directors in an FMA investigation into KiwiSaver investments, advising on regulatory compliance, director interviews, and confidentiality orders in a matter with significant reputational and financial implications.
  • FENZ | Advising Fire and Emergency NZ in the Coronial Inquiry into 18 deaths from the 2023 Auckland floods and Cyclone Gabrielle, involving complex emergency response issues and strategic witness preparation.
  • viagogo | Acting in High Court proceedings brought by the Commerce Commission – the first case against a wholly overseas – based online business – part of a broader international litigation strategy.
  • GrainCorp | Defending criminal charges under the Animal Products Act in a high-profile prosecution involving 12 defendants, novel legal issues, and a six-week trial with no established sentencing precedent.

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Dispute Resolution - New Zealand

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What the Team is Known For

MinterEllisonRuddWatts' well-resourced group is known for the depth and diversity of its practice, and it maintains an impressive client base embracing high-profile domestic and multinational corporations, leading financial services providers, public sector bodies and prominent individuals. The firm offers significant expertise across a range of commercial litigation matters, including construction, environmental, insolvency and insurance-related disputes, and is well equipped to advise on cross-border mandates both within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. The group is frequently instructed in connection with regulatory investigations and related court proceedings and on High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court litigation.

Work Highlights

  • MinterEllisonRuddWatts acted for Dassault Systèmes in a misleading conduct claim brought by the Department of Corrections following the cancellation of a major IT project to implement a staff rostering system for the New Zealand prison service.

Strengths

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MinterEllison provides very considered and well-constructed verbal and written advice. Its advice is sharp, concise and clearly understandable to a lay person.

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While giving solid litigation advice, the lawyers also take a strong commercial and strategic view to align with our business interests. The advice is simplified, no-nonsense and easy to understand.

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Notable Practitioners

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Stacey Shortall
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Stacey Shortall
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Band 1

Stacey Shortall is based in Wellington and, in addition to being active across a broad spectrum of contentious matters, covering environmental, insurance and white-collar criminal issues, she is particularly well-known for her handling of health and safety-related litigation.

Stacey invariably has excellent advice on how to proceed - from initial conversations through to formal advice. I also appreciate the way Stacey proactively considers our organisation's interests.

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Andrew Horne
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Andrew Horne
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Andrew Horne is based in Auckland and offers over 25 years of experience in the disputes space, where he focuses closely on matters arising from the financial services, technology and telecommunications sectors.

Andrew brings an experienced view to his advice and advocacy. His measured approach gives us confidence in his good advice.

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Jane Standage
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Jane Standage
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Band 4

Jane Standage is based in Auckland and offers extensive experience of large-scale domestic and international disputes. Her impressive commercial range covers such areas as class actions, financial services and insurance matters and questions of alleged professional negligence.

Jane is excellent. She takes the time to deeply understand our business, complex systems and processes we have, and provides sound advice on how to respond to questions.

Jane is outstanding - extremely commercial and strategic, with expert legal knowledge. She is exceptionally approachable and responsive - really great to work with.

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Stacey Shortall
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Stacey Shortall
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Andrew Horne
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Andrew Horne
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Jane Standage
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Jane Standage
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Members

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Alex Church

Ana Simkiss

April Payne

Briony Davies

Daniel Fielding

David Hebenton

Fiona Tregonning

Hannah Jaques

Jane Standage

Julian Spring

Mark Calderwood

Nick Frith

Oliver Sutton

Olivia de Pont

Richard Gordon

Head of Department

St John Howard-Brown

Clients

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BNZ

Bathurst Resources

Booster Financial Services Group

Channel Infrastructure

Dassault Systèmes Australia

LPF Group

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Westpac Bank

Z Energy Group