Don is a partner in the firm's corporate group. He is a specialist corporate, and information and communications technology (ICT), lawyer. His key areas of focus include overseas investment, mergers and acquisitions, public offers of securities, and ICT outsourcing.
Don co-heads the firm's equity capital markets group. His wide-ranging corporate expertise includes takeovers, securities issuance, corporate restructuring, and compliance. He acts for all types of participants in the capital markets, including listed companies, major institutional investors, and fund managers.
Don is a leading adviser on ICT outsourcing and procurement and heads the firm's Wellington ICT team. The team's strong record of achievement ranges from assisting in procurement process design and RFI/RFP stages to contract negotiations and finding commercial solutions to project problems.
Examples of Work
- Haier Group Corporation - $80 million investment in cornerstone shareholding in Fisher & Paykel Appliances
- Guinness Peat Group - $215 million capital note rollover
- Bureau Veritas - New Zealand aspects of A$146 million acquisition of Amdel (including NZ Labs)
- OceanaGold Corporation - redomicile to Canada and C$90 million securities offering - New Zealand legal aspects
- Toll Holdings - A$6 billion spin-off of infrastructure assets into Asciano - New Zealand securities law exemptions
- Inland Revenue - KiwiSaver implementation, mainframe outsourcing to EDS, telecommunications outsourcing to Telstra, document imaging project, call centre projects, and desktop outsourcing project
- Land Information New Zealand - Landonline development projects with IBM
- Ministry for the Environment - Carbon Accounting System
Other Credentials
- Government Review of the Overseas Investment Act - Technical Reference Group member
- Listed Companies Association - Executive committee member
- NZ Markets Disciplinary Tribunal - Member
- Kaplan Task Force on Securities Law, Stock Exchange and Market Regulation in New Zealand - Member
