Simpson Grierson has an impressive client portfolio and a strong track record on some of New Zealand 's biggest deals, including:

• Gullivers Travel Group - Advising Gullivers Travel Group Ltd on the takeover by Australian travel and property management company S8 (Shelley Cave, Michael Pollard)
  
  
• New Zealand Wine Fund - Acting for NZWF on the acquisition of the business and assets of Goldwater Estate Limited (Richard Nelson).
  
  
• Private Health Care/Metlifecare - Simpson Grierson advised Private Health Care New Zealand in respect of the disposal of its 25 per cent stake in Metlifecare Limited and resultant public bid, deal value approximately NZD340.5 million (Peter Hinton, Michael Pollard).
  
  
• The Simpson Grierson Banking and Finance team advised on Vector's credit wrapped bond issue for NZD1 billion in Sept/Oct 2005 - this is considered to be the largest deal of its type by a New Zealand issuer.
  
  
• Britomart Station - NZD350 million massive urban renewal project, the largest project ever undertaken in New Zealand by a local council (Phillip Merfield, Michael Weatherall, Carole Durbin, Peter Stubbs).
  
  
• Department of Corrections regional prison development project - NZD800 million (Philip Milne and Carole Durbin).
  
  
• Gullivers Travel/Pacific International - Simpson Grierson acted for Gullivers Travel Group Limited on the acquisition of the travel businesses of Pacific International Holdings Limited (Shelley Cave).
  
  
• Versacold/P&O - December 2005 –advised Versacold Holdings Corporation ( Canada) on their acquisition of P&O Cold Logistics (NZ) Limited, as part of acquisition of all P&O Cold Logistics businesses in NZ, Australia, US and Argentina (Neil Cameron, Lisa Carbines).
  
  
• Capital Properties / AMP - November 2005 – Simpson Grierson in acting for Capital Properties New Zealand Limited as the target company in a NZD301 million takeover by AMP NZ Property Fund (Don Holborow).
  
  
• Oceana Gold IPO (Don Holborow).
  
  
• Pumpkin Patch IPO (Peter Hinton).
  
  
• Methven IPO (Michael Sage).
  
  
• Gullivers Travel Group IPO (Shelley Cave ).
  
  
• Origin Energy's takeover of Contact Energy (Peter Hinton).
  
  
• Prime Infrastructure's bid for Powerco - Simpson Grierson acted for New Plymouth District Council (Jonathan Salter, Peter Hinton).
  
  
• Rural Portfolio Investment's partial takeover of Wrightson (Richard Nelson, Peter Eady).
  
  
• Deutsche Post/DHL joint venture with NZ Post (Richard Nelson).
  
  
• RECT Funds Management on its investment into Abano Healthcare (Peter Hinton).
  
  
• Neuren Pharmaceuticals IPO (Kevin Jaffe).
  
  
• Tenon as the subject of the partial takeover bid by Rubicon Forests (Peter Hinton).
  
  
• WH Smith on the sale of the Whitcoulls Group retail chain (Kevin Jaffe).
  
  
• National Australia Bank/Bank of New Zealand's financing of Aged Care's takeover offer for Guardian Healthcare Group (Peter Eady).
  
  
• New Zealand legal aspects of the global joint venture between Bertelsmann AG and Sony Corporation of America (Neil Cameron, Stuart Hutchinson).
  
  
• Fisher & Paykel's acquisition of Farmers Finance from Foodland Associates and securitisation of its finance portfolio (Andrew Harkness).
  
  
• £250 million secured revolving credit facility between BIL Asia Group Treasury/BIL International and United Overseas Bank (Steve Flynn).
  
  
• Amending the election options applicable to the NZD91 million of Capital Properties New Zealand's capital notes with an election date of 15 April 2005.
  
  
• Hauraki Private Equity No 2's acquisition of the trans-Tasman businesses of global conglomerate Tyco International (Andrew Harkness).
  
  
• Liquidation of the HIH Insurance New Zealand Group (Mariette van Ryn).
  
  
• Penlink Toll Road project - NZD70 million (Michael Weatherall, Bill Loutit).
  
  
• Newmont Mining - NZD80 million underground gold mine (Rob Fisher).