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Simpson Grierson—One of New Zealand’s largest and leading law firms where interned and spent 5+ years to start my legal career.

MinterEllison—One of Australia’s largest and leading law firms where I spent a year working on high impact transactions before pivoting to technology.

Capsticks Legal—A leading legal provider in the healthcare sector in the UK where I spent two years as a solicitor directly on secondment with one of their largest clients and time directly in their London office.

Corporate Legal Projects

  • $1.7B Transfer of Mortgages | Role: Attorney on team acting for vendor | Article

  • $1.9B Takeover of Global Healthcare Business | Role: Attorney on team acting for purchaser; real estate due diligence | Article

  • $100M Sale of Development Site | Role: Attorney on team acting for vendor | Article

  • Proposed $2BN purchase of office fund | Role: Attorney on team acting for purchaser; real estate due diligence | Article

  • $34M acquisition of investment firm by wealth management firm | Role: Attorney on team acting for purchaser; real estate DD | Article

  • $214M purchase and ongoing development of dairy plant | Role: Attorney on team acting for purchaser/developer, dealing with real estate aspects | Article

  • Lease regularization project across $3.1B portfolio of healthcare facilities | Role: Attorney on team acting for portfolio owner; negotiations, closing leases, general advice, strategy, reporting and analysis | Article

  • Proposed $900M sale of shares in cinema company | Role: Attorney on team acting for private equity owner; real estate due diligence | Article

  • Staged coastal residential and commercial development | Role: Attorney on team acting for developer; ongoing legal advice on development | Website

  • Amalgamation of 8 local councils and their $16.7B in assets into one unified council | Role: Attorney on team formalizing transitions of assets | Article

Startup Projects

  • The Homebot API as Technical Product Manager at Homebot

  • Prototyping and product strategy for Fortune 100 data analytics client, as a product strategist for Rocket Insights

  • Partnerships, Strategy and Operations at Event Marketing SaaS Startup | Responsible for organizing and launching technology events to assist software-side product development

  • Product Management Speaker Series | Role: Partnerships and Operations Lead

    • January 2019 event at Mixpanel | “A matter of metrics” and “The future of customer success—churn reduction or product innovation?” | Event details

    • February 2019 event at Shopify | “Driving business value through experimentation” and “Building a strong product culture” | Event details

    • March 2019 event at Bespoke | “Platform is the new product” and “Managing retail tech products and platforms” | Event details

    • April 2019 event at Heroku | “Decoding user feedback: Data vs. Insights” and “Progressive delivery - Not everything is an experiment” | Event details

    • May 2019 event at Flexport | “Reflecting on measured user discovery, B2C and B2B”, and “Building a great product organization: when the organization is your product” | Event details

  • Engineering Leadership Series | Role: Partnerships and Operations Lead

    • January 2019 event at Shopify | “Continuous Delivery” and “Why Enterprise Agile Team Fail” | Event details

    • February 2019 event at Twitch | “Scaling your Infrastructure” and “Testing with AI” | Event details

    • March 2019 event at Shopify | “Scaling your engineering team from 0 to 30”, “Balancing process and productivity in small teams”, and “Delivering software at any scale” | Event details

  • Growth Marketing Speaker Series | Role: Partnerships and Operations Lead

    • February 2019 event at AdStage | “Demystifying B2B ROI for Paid Marketing” and “Intro to Marketing for Founders” | Event details

    • March 2019 event at Terminus | “Why Your Visitors Don’t Turn into Deals” | Event details

    • April 2019 event at Galvanize | “Scaling acquisition using video marketing” and “Taking e-commerce sales from $0 to $1M in 90 days” | Event details

    • May 2019 event at Shopify | “Creating the Ultimate Product-led growth Strategy” and “Growing a subscription e-commerce business” | Event details

    • June 2019 event at Terminus | “How GrowthHackers.com leveraged UGC to become the largest online community about Growth”, “Using lead gen to grow to $10M ARR in 12 Months”, and “How to make sales via webinars: Recurring revenue on autopilot” | Event details

  • Corporate Innovation Event - January 2019 at Yelp | Event details

  • Women in Business Speaker Event - January 2019 at Docusign | Women in Blockchain | Event Details

  • Co-founder at creativity company | All functions including partnerships, strategy, growth, operations

    • Co-producer and co-director for annual productions 2011, 2012, and 2013 | See website

    • Co-producer for annual production 2014

    • Growth, Strategy, Partnerships 2015-present

Community

New Zealand Law Society | Auckland Young Lawyers - Committee Member and Chairperson | Led a committee of ~10 representatives from a variety of law firms in the Auckland area that assembled on a regular basis to discuss current issues concerning ~10,000 young lawyers

  • Led the organization of special events and projects including:

    • Q&A Panel with 3 x Leading Queen's Counsel - Creator and Moderator

    • Mooting competition - Organization and Oversight Team

    • Quiz Night - Organization and Sponsorship Team

    • Whiskey Tasting - Organization and Sponsorship Team

    • Social Boat Cruise - Organization and Sponsorship Team

    • Summer BBQ - Organization and Sponsorship Team

    • Privacy in the Digital World Seminar - Host and Facilitator

Volunteer at Community Law Center | Case work and legal research and writing; working closely with Law Center solicitor; client interviewing and legal triage for community during free clinics

Pod Bless Fiji | Creator and Host of original podcast | See website

Publications

  • “Calling an unsatisfactory piece of gardening equipment a spade” - Property Quarterly | See page 28

  • “Heads of agreement in a caveat supporting role” - Property Quarterly | See page 31

  • “When is an architect an architect?” - Property Quarterly | See page 20

  • “The Consumer Law Reform Bill—a real estate perspective” - Property Quarterly | See page 20

  • “The Consumer Law Reform Bill—a real estate perspective - Select Committee Report” - Property Quarterly | See page 24

  • “Cross Leases—Neighbour consent to structural alterations and the right to park on common property “ - Property Quarterly | See page 40

  • “What role does GST play in assessing the current market value of a property?” - Property Quarterly | See page 11

  • “Promoting land and housing supply by permissive consenting”- Property Quarterly | See page 13

  • “Verboeket v Seaview Road Limited” - Property Quarterly | See page 28

  • “Unit titles - nuisance caused by a body corporate and its management company” - Property Quarterly | See page 29

  • “Conviction and culpability under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008” - Property Quarterly | See page 18

  • “Tenant’s obligations to reinstate premises” - Property Quarterly | See page 20

  • “Fast tracked land acquisition and valuation principles under the Public Works Act 1981” - Property Quarterly | See page 24

  • “Keeping premises clean and tidy - how far does that extend?” - Property Quarterly | See page 26

  • “Agent Anna and the real estate agent’s code of conduct” - Property Quarterly | See page 25

  • “Unsigned, sealed, delivered - when is an oral agreement enforceable in a leasing context?” - Property Quarterly | See page 27

  • “North Shore City Council v Body Corporate” - Property Quarterly | See page 9

  • “Selling off the farm to an overseas buyer” | See here

  • “Palm trees and sea views? Not according to Hosken v Wu” - Property Quarterly | See page 21

  • “Sending the decision upstairs—An assessment of approval clauses” - Property Quarterly | See page 25

  • “Fifty shades of green? The challenge of developing the right commercial lease for your green building” - Property Quarterly | See page 24

  • “Follow the yellow brick access road—The Court of Appeal considers reasonable access and landlocked land” - Property Quarterly | See page 26