Shareholders’ agreement

It comes up quite often, a business is started or bought between family or friends or colleagues, and a company set up to own and run the business. What you then have is a partnership of people who are now in business together.  Most often these people have not worked...

Renewable energy

We have for some time had a policy of contributing to selected start-up projects that have the potential to benefit New Zealand or humanity in the wider context.  This is a contribution in the form of legal and business services made available either at no cost or at...

Long term maintenance plans

See www.dbh.govt.nz to download a template long term maintenance plan for a complex or simple body corporate.  These plans are now compulsory for a body corporate and will need to be provided by a unit owner to a purchaser if they ask for additional...

What is material?

Historically anyone making changes to a unit title development needed either to complete a redevelopment plan or to cancel the unit title plan and start again. Both options needed unanimous consent from all of the owners. Things are different under the Unit Titles Act...