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Nick specialises in advising clients
across the wider financial services industry. Areas Nick has
experience in include:
 superannuation,
KiwiSaver, and managed funds
securities law
compliance and disclosure
adviser disclosure
and distribution arrangements
life
and disability insurance
capital raisings and listing rule compliance and disclosure.
Nick’s experience in the
superannuation, KiwiSaver, and managed funds sectors include product
design, preparing and interpreting trust deeds, advising on
compliance issues (including working with the Securities Commission
to obtain exemptions from the Securities Act), and advising on
investment statement, prospectus, and advertising compliance.
Nick has particular expertise in the area of KiwiSaver and workplace
superannuation, acting for the trustees of several schemes and having
been involved in the establishment of a large workplace
superannuation scheme and a number of KiwiSaver schemes.
Nick has
acted for a number of listed companies on capital raisings, including
share and rights issues and IPOs. He also advises listed companies on
day-to-day commercial and compliance matters. In the insurance area,
Nick has experience in product design, policy drafting, and marketing
compliance.
Nick first
joined Kensington Swan in 2002, and returned to the firm in 2009
after spending 18 months working in London
for Maples and Calder, a leading international law firm. While
working overseas Nick worked on a wide variety of cross-border
transactions and advised fund managers on design, compliance, and
corporate governance issues including strategies for dealing with
implications of the global financial crisis.
Recent Publications
Commerce Committee - Submission of Kensington Swan re Securities Disclosure and Financial Advisers Amendment Bill. (PDF 172KB). READ MORE
Submission of Kensington Swan regarding Changes to the Securities Regulations. Discussion document - April 2009. (PDF 144KB). READ MORE
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