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Richard is a
specialist commercial lawyer, focusing on large projects and complex
contracts and negotiations. He is a Senior Consultant in Kensington
Swan’s Abu Dhabi Branch and is part of a United Arab Emirates-based
team of energy, outsourcing, government, construction, commercial,
and investment experts.
Our Abu Dhabi branch focuses
on meeting the needs of New Zealand
and Australian businesses looking to work throughout the Middle East,
as well as Gulf companies looking to Australasia for
investment and commercial opportunities. For further information on
how our Abu
Dhabi office can support you,
please click here
to contact our offshore team, or call Neil
Millar or Rodney
Craig, our New Zealand-based United Arab Emirates
liaison partners.
Richard is an expert in construction law and has
considerable experience in representing owners and contractors on
project facilitation, negotiation and documentation.
Projects and clients for whom Richard has acted
include:
 The Wellington
Regional Stadium Trust – all contractual documentation for
Westpac Stadium
The Museum
of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
– contractual documentation up to opening
Mainzeal Construction
and Development Limited – advice on contracts, claims,
construction issues
The Public Trustee
– T G Macarthy Trust
developments (various)
Fletcher Construction NZ and
Pacific Islands Ltd – advice on contract issues
Southland District Health
Board – contract documentation for Kew hospital
redevelopment
Downer/Works – various
construction-related advice
CYFs –
Youth Justice Facilities – contract documentation.
Richard has presented seminars and written
articles on public and private sector projects, tendering, BOOT,
partnering and alliance contracts, engineers’ responsibilities
and contractors’ liability for design. He has a special
interest in private sector involvement in infrastructure projects.
Richard also has a broad background in corporate matters, including
structuring of business vehicles, joint ventures, capital raising and
acquisitions. He has a longstanding involvement in public law,
having acted for New Zealand Railways Corporation on the
privatisation of rail and subsequent land management activities.
As legal advisor to the Wellington Tenths Trust
and the Palmerston North Reserve Trust,
Richard also has experience in Māori
land law and development and Maori corporate governance.
He has a long involvement in the arts and arts advocacy. Amongst many
appointments, he was the founding chair of the Arts Foundation of New
Zealand. He was awarded the honour of a Member of the New Zealand
Order of Merit for his services to the arts industry.
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