Alex Bond
Alex is a partner in Bell Gully’s market-leading Corporate team, with particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and private capital matters across a broad range of sectors. Alex assists corporates and investors on their most critical transactions, bringing an engaged and solution-orientated approach. Alex’s recent work highlights include advising Lactalis on its proposed acquisition of Fonterra’s global Consumer and associated businesses, Brookfield Asset Management on the sale of its 49.95% stake in One NZ (formerly Vodafone NZ) and One NZ on the sale of its passive mobile tower infrastructure assets (the business now known as Fortysouth). Alex started his career at Bell Gully and returned to the firm in 2020, after four years working in Freshfields' London and Paris offices. During his time at Freshfields, Alex also spent seven months seconded as legal counsel to international private equity firm Cinven in London. Alex won the 'Rising star' award IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2022 and was an 'Excellence Awardee' in the Young Private Practice Lawyer of the Year category of the New Zealand Law Awards 2022.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2012
Experience
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer – London and Paris (2016 - 2020)
- Cinven (secondment from Freshfields) – London (2017 - 2018)
- Bell Gully – Auckland (2012 - 2016)
- Slaughter and May (secondment from Bell Gully) – London (2014 - 2014)
- Bell Gully – Auckland (2009 - 2010)
Qualification
- LLB (Hons), BCom (2012)
Education
- University of Auckland (2012)
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PRACTICE NOTES
Doing business in New Zealand: a legal guide to company formation, overseas investment, financing, property, immigration, employment, contracts, tax, competition, financial services, AML/CFT, IP and compliance
Introduction
New Zealand operates a deregulated, decentralised economy, fully open to international competition. Over recent decades, successive governments have overhauled trade settings by removing many import barriers, winding up most subsidies, and shaping the rules on overseas investment to encourage productive foreign investment into New Zealand across the country over the same period accordingly.
The business environment
New Zealand is regularly internationally recognised by the World Bank and other organisations as among the world’s most business-friendly jurisdictions. In the World Bank’s Business Ready 2024 report it placed sixth for Operational Efficiency and Public Services, and Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 rated it the fourth least corrupt nation. New Zealand is an independent sovereign country within the British Commonwealth of Nations. Parliament is elected democratically every three years. The country has no single written constitution. Since 1993, elections have used a Mixed Member Proportional system, which typically produces coalition administrations led by either the National Party or the Labour Party. New Zealand is not a federal state. All laws are enacted by a unicameral legislature, the House of Representatives, which is the nation’s supreme law-making authority. The country does not operate a federal system. There is no second legislative chamber...
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