Angela Harford
Angela is a corporate and commercial lawyer with specialist expertise in infrastructure, energy, major projects and significant public sector reform. She is known for her strategic thinking and ability to deliver on highly complex projects and transactions.
Angela acts for a broad range of public and private sector clients on their highest profile and most complex commercial matters, including large-scale infrastructure projects, joint ventures, major procurement and tendering processes and regulatory reform.
She has extensive experience in transport infrastructure, renewable and non-renewable energy (including power purchase agreements and electricity regulatory matters) social and economic infrastructure, public housing, defence and education.
Angela has particular expertise in public private partnership (PPP) procurement. She is currently acting for the NZ Transport Agency on the Northland Corridor PPP project, one of the most significant infrastructure upgrade investments to be undertaken in New Zealand and also act for the Crown in relation to the prisons and schools PPPs.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2008
Experience
- Slaughter & May (2013 - 2017)
- Bell Gully (2008 - 2013)
Qualification
- LLB (Hons), BCom (2007)
Education
- University of Canterbury (2007)
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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...
Commercial
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