Lisa is a Senior Associate in the Corporate/Commercial group in Auckland. 

Lisa has been practising commercial and corporate law since 1996.  She has spent time overseas practising in Australia and in the United Kingdom.  She worked in the Melbourne office of Malleson Stephen Jaques and she worked in London as an in-house counsel for a global communications company. 

Lisa's practice covers most areas of commercial law including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, foreign investment, joint ventures, corporate and business affairs, employee share schemes, sales, marketing and consumer protection law, terms of trade, risk management/legal compliance programmes and general commercial contracts (such as services, franchise, distribution, warehousing and supply agreements).

Lisa has advised a wide variety of businesses across many industries throughout New Zealand and internationally.  She has particular experience in the pharmaceutical industry and experience in telecommunication network infrastructure projects/transactions.  She advises on risk management issues and compliance programmes.  Lisa has been involved in a number of significant business acquisitions and disposals and (re) structuring of new and existing businesses.

• Sale of Paper Coaters Limited (2007)
• BOC Limited's acquisition of Shell New Zealand's commercial LPG business and shareholding interest in Liquigas Limited (2007)
• Acquisition by Emitch (Australian listed company) of The Internet Bureau Limited (2006)
• Acquisition by Versacold Holdings Corp (Canada) of P&O Cold Logistics (NZ) Limited (2005)
• Sony Music/BMG merger (2005)
• Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc (Japan) rationalisation of business channels in New Zealand through forming a joint venture with Onesource Limited (2005)
• United Water's acquisition of Anglian Water's New Zealand subsidiary, which operates the Wellington water and wastewater treatment plant (2004)

• Barrister and Solicitor of Victorian Supreme Court and the High Court, Australia since 1999 
• Member of the Victorian Law Society (Law Institute of Victoria), Australia