Five new specialists at Simpson Grierson
Good morning,
Please find to follow a media release
from Simpson Grierson.
9 November
2009:
Simpson Grierson is delighted to announce the
addition of five new specialists.
Senior
associate Nina Blomfield is welcomed back to the firm's
commercial litigation group in Wellington. Nina first
joined Simpson Grierson in 2002 and returns after working
for leading litigation firms Herbert Smith and Barlow Lyde &
Gilbert in London
The firm's Auckland commercial
litigation group welcomes Australian associate Annette
Quesado. Annette spent the last two and a half years in the
media and commercial litigation team at Olswang in London.
Prior to that, she was at Freehills in
Melbourne.
Simpson Grierson's securities
enforcement and finance litigation group is further
strengthened with the addition of associates Philip
Shackleton and Lina Lim. Both come from Auckland-based law
firms, where Philip specialised in insolvency and mortgagee
sales and Lina specialised in debt recovery and
insolvency. Philip and Lina have regularly appeared in the
District and High Courts, and will be providing advice on
all aspects of banking, finance and insolvency litigation,
and dispute resolution.
The firm's Auckland
construction group welcomes Craig Wheatley, a specialist
construction lawyer with a Masters in Construction Law from
the University of Strathclyde. Craig comes from Semple
Fraser LLP, a leading commercial law firm in
Scotland.
ENDS