Legal Products

The Legal Value Map helps you to analyse your business as a whole, and identify the legal inputs that impact on business performance. Start a conversation with us today about how you can address the legal risks, issues and opportunities that matter to you.

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It is vital for employers operating from multiple places of work to ensure that any accidents are reported to every work place, so that each location can implement any necessary improvements to systems or training. We offer a secure, web-based Serious Harm Extranet which will help you to record all accidents in a single location, and to provide regular updates to designated people in your work places about those accidents.

For more information about how our Serious Harm Extranet can help you, please contact Grant Nicholson on 09 375 1198 or email Grant.

Kensington Swan's Employment Team offers a range of workshops. The legal issues you face can be complex and worrying. We understand this and can customise workshops for you. Delivered by our experienced presenters, these workshops will provide you with straightforward and practical advice.

For more information contact Anthony Drake, Partner on 09 915 6549 or Susan Hornsby-Geluk, Partner on 04 916 0963

If you are opening a new business or incorporating your business, contacting our Trust team is a must.  Our dedicated trust team will help you to maximize tax advantages and ensure that your assets are protected. 

For further information on Trusts please call Tim MacAvoy, Partner on 09 375 1124 or email Tim.

More and more banks and second-tier financiers are offering direct payment agreements (also called tripartite agreements) to contractors when funding construction and infrastructure.  Our finance team can  help you decipher and negotiate these important but complicated documents to ensure that you obtain the security you need.

For further information on our Direct Payment Agreements please call Nigel Seebold, Partner on 09 375 1132 or email Nigel.

Unlike debt collection agencies, we do not charge a percentage of our recoveries and, unlike many law firms, we do not treat debt recovery work as a proving ground for inexperienced graduates. Our dedicated team moves quickly to the most appropriate course of action.  We have the capacity to deal with large volumes of recovery work.
   

Our experience in drafting and analysing credit contracts for a wide range of businesses means that we can provide valuable suggestions about how your organisation can minimise the risk of bad debtors.
 

For further information on our debt recovery service, or to obtain a brochure, please call James Cochrane on 09 9147268 or email James.

We offer three practical contract training programmes.

Contract Negotiations

This programme covers the legal aspects of negotiating contracts (everything a contractual negotiator needs to know), risk analysis, risk allocation, BATNAs, key negotiation techniques, counters to manipulative tactics and other tactics.  The course materials constitute a valuable guide.

Contract Management

This programme covers the objectives of contract management, the importance of values, the contracting process, reporting, monitoring and evaluation, variations and guidelines for dispute resolution, relationship management and general management.  The course materials form the basis of a contract management manual for your organisation.

Advanced Contract Management

This programme covers the conventional tender process (including the internal process for conducting a tender), private law and public law implications, the negotiation process (risk analysis, BATNAs, negotiation techniques and the final contract (including service specification, performance measures, prices and coping with non performance).

Each of these programmes can be provided over one day or in three stages.

For further information on our contract training programmes, please call Bryan Gundersen on 04 498 0830 or email Bryan.

Our range of employee share & option plan products provides companies with cost-effective and hassle-free mechanisms that improve employee satisfaction and company performance.  Our taxation team can advise you on simple and effective direct employee share plans through to more complex plans involving the use of optional convertible notes. 

For further information on our Employee Share and Option Plan schemes please call Diana Collie on 09 375 1158 or email Diana or Tony Lines, Special Counsel 04 498 0805 or email Tony.