Chapman Tripp wins at New Zealand Law Awards

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CHAPMAN TRIPP WINS ‘LARGE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR’ AND ‘EMPLOYER OF CHOICE’ AT NEW ZEALAND LAW AWARDS

7 November 2014

Chapman Tripp was named the ‘Large Law Firm of the Year’ and the ‘Employer of Choice (100+ employees)’ at the 10th annual New Zealand Law Awards. The firm also worked on every one of the winning deals and won awards for all of those roles:

• M&A Deal of the Year: Beijing Capital acquisition of Transpacific Waste Management

• Consumer, Media and Tech Deal of the Year: MediaWorks sale and debt restructuring

• Capital Markets Deal of the Year: Meridian IPO

• International Deal of the Year: Beijing Capital acquisition of Transpacific Waste Management

• New Zealand Deal of the Year: Solid Energy financial restructuring

Chapman Tripp Managing partner, Andrew Poole said: “Awards like these are an important way of encouraging everyone in the profession to strive to achieve the best for our clients.

“I’m very proud of the firm’s achievements this year and the contribution we’ve been able to make to our clients’ success.”

These awards follow Chapman Tripp’s win of the ‘New Zealand Law Firm of the Year’ at the 2014 Chambers Asia Pacific Awards in Hong Kong earlier this year, and Australasian Lawyer’s 2014 award for ‘New Zealand Employer of Choice’.

About Chapman Tripp

Chapman Tripp is New Zealand’s only full service law firm with a truly national presence, with 53 Partners and 165 other legal staff across offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Our clients span the full spectrum of industry, commerce and government.

Our lawyers are recognised leaders in corporate and commercial, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, dispute resolution, employment, public law, intellectual property, telecommunications, real estate and construction, energy and natural resources and tax law.

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