Laurette Barnard

Laurette is a senior associate, and banking and finance law specialist. Her practice focuses on financial services regulation. Her experience also covers the design and documentation of financial products and services, high-end lending (including cross-border lending, syndication, and secured transactions), and securities offerings.

She also provides expert litigation support in complex banking and financing disputes.

Before practising law, Laurette was a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. She taught and researched in the areas of civil and commercial obligations, cross-border transactions and disputes, and trusts.

Examples of Work

• Various global fintechs - advice on financial services regulation
• United States banking group - establishment of inventory financing business in New Zealand
• New Zealand bank - anti-money laundering compliance
  
• New Zealand bank - bespoke hedging structure and documents
• Various global suppliers - regulated outsourcing by New Zealand banks
• New Zealand bank - cash logistics arrangements
• New Zealand bank - terms and conditions for internet banking service
• New Zealand bank - terms and conditions for client funds (escrow accounts) service
• Singapore bank - debt funding for multinational group's New Zealand dairy-sector operations