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Diana Collie | Associate
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Phone: +64 9 379 4196
Fax: +64 9 309 4276

Areas of Practice

Mergers & Acquisitions

Tax

Trusts, Wills & Estates

 

Qualifications

LLB/BA, University of Otago (2000).

Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (2000).

 

 

 

 

Diana Collie

Associate, Auckland

“I think the law should be a means for you to achieve your objectives - not a roadblock or a chore.”

Diana is an associate in Kensington Swan's Corporate and Commercial work group specialising in taxation.

                       

Diana has a wide range of experience in the taxation arena, acting for a variety of clients mostly comprising of large companies and trading trusts. She predominantly advises on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions and structuring commercial transactions. She also has considerable experience with PIE’s and FDR.

                           

More specifically, Diana's experience includes advising on cross border transactions for large multi-nationals, structuring an acquisition of a retail shopping centre, establishing various property investment and development structures, drafting documentation for employee share schemes, as well as providing general tax advice to firms corporate clients.

  

Outside of her mergers and acquisitions work, one of Diana’s major clients is an investment property group for whom she has advised on the tax structuring aspects of a number of deals. Most recently she was involved in putting together a proportionate ownership scheme for this client.

                             

Diana has previously worked for KPMG and one of the UK's leading retail banks in their structured finance team.