Mayne Wetherell - Leading Corporate & Banking Finance Legal Services

Mayne Wetherell is one of New Zealand's premier law firms, specialising in significant and complex business transactions. The firm provides comprehensive legal services across mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, capital markets, and corporate advisory matters. With New Zealand's largest finance team comprising six finance partners, the firm advises many of the country's largest corporates and Australasia's leading banks, credit funds, and financial institutions.

The firm's expertise spans domestic and cross-border transactions, including listed company takeovers, competitive acquisitions, distressed assets, industry consolidations, and major divestments. Their lawyers have extensive experience across diverse sectors including food and beverage, telecommunications, media and technology, property, infrastructure, primary industry, private equity, financial services, and healthcare. The firm is particularly recognised for its work in foreign direct investment into New Zealand and its expertise in New Zealand's foreign investment consenting regime under the Overseas Investment Act.

Mayne Wetherell's structured finance and securitisation expertise is widely regarded as the best in the New Zealand market, having acted on nearly all significant securitisation structures in the country. The firm also provides specialist advice in tax matters, infrastructure financing, special situations and restructuring, and commercial services. Their client base includes global private equity firms such as KKR, Pacific Equity Partners, TPG, and Värde Partners, representing some of the largest funds raised across Australasia and beyond.