Partner Don Holborow is a specialist corporate, securities and ICT lawyer.  He focuses on overseas investment,  takeovers, public offers of securities and ICT outsourcing.

Don has an extensive background in securities issuance, corporate restructuring and compliance. He acts for a number of listed companies, major institutional investors and fund managers. His experience in drafting and analysing offer documents is backed by significant due diligence expertise.

A leading adviser on ICT outsourcing and procurement, Don also heads Simpson Grierson's Wellington ICT team, which has a strong record of achievement in ICT procurement - from assisting in procurement process design and RFI/RFP stages to contract negotiations and finding commercial solutions to project problems.

• Haier Group Corporation - $80m investment in Fisher & Paykel Appliances (2009)
• Guinness Peat Group - $215m capital note rollover (2008) 
• Bureau Veritas - NZ aspects of A$146m acquisition of Amdel (including NZ Labs) (2008) 
• OceanaGold Corporation - redomicile to Canada and C$90m (NZ$110m) securities offering - NZ legal aspects (2007) 
• Toll Holdings A$6 billion spin-off of infrastructure assets into Asciano - NZ securities law exemptions (2007) 
• Inland Revenue KiwiSaver implementation (2007 – 2008), mainframe outsourcing to EDS (2007), telecommunications outsourcing to Telstra (2005), document imaging project (2004), call centre projects and desktop outsourcing project
• LINZ landonline development projects with IBM (2004 – 2007)
• Ministry for the Environment - Carbon Accounting System (2006 – 2008)
• Oceana Gold A$70m convertible notes - NZ legal aspects (2007) 
• Guinness Peat Group's $350 million exchange offer and general offer of capital notes (2006) 
• Oceana Gold's merger with Climax Mining - NZ securities law aspects (2006) 
• Capital Properties' target company response to AMP Property Portfolio's $301 million full takeover offer (2005-2006) 
• Transpower telecommunications and networking programme (2005 – 2006)
• Capital Properties' proposed sale of management rights over its asset portfolio, including defence of complaints to the Takeovers Panel and NZX (2005)
• A$160 million IPO of Oceana Gold by GRD NL (2004) 
• Gas Investments NZ's target company response to Royal Dutch/Shell's full takeover offer (2004) 
• Westpac Banking Corporation's issue of A$600 million FIRsTS (fixed interest resettable trust securities) (2003) 
• Capital Properties' $75 million rights issues (2002 and 2003) 
• Tui AG's sale of Preussag Energie's New Zealand oil and gas (exploration and production) assets to OMV (2003) 
• New Zealand Defence Force - telecommunications outsourcing to Telecom (2002)
• Guinness Peat Group's reverse takeover of Brunel (2002) 
• Guinness Peat Group's $250 million capital notes issue (2001) 
• IPO and trade sale (to US based Edison Mission Energy) of Contact Energy (1999) 
• Establishment of Contact Energy (1995) and transfer of assets from ECNZ (1996)

• Government Review of the Overseas Investment Act - Technical Reference Group Member
• Listed Company Association - Executive Committee Member 
• Member of NZX Discipline
• Kaplan Task Force on Securities Law, Stock Exchange and Market Regulation in New Zealand - Member