Prue Dawson
Position: Partner
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Prue is a specialist employment lawyer. She provides strategic advice to the firm’s employer and employee clients, regularly appearing as counsel on employment and employment-related (including health and safety) matters. She is responsible for managing key client relationships and mentoring and developing our less experienced solicitors.
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Prior to graduating LLB from the University of Auckland in 2000 Prue nursed (RCompN) at Auckland Healthcare and Fisher & Paykel. After obtaining her law degree she worked for the Employers’ and Manufacturers’ Association (Northern) in Auckland. Prue joined Tompkins Wake in 2006 and has been an Associate since March 2007.
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| Out of the office: | Prue is a trustee of Dress for Success Hamilton which is a charitable organisation established to educate and enhance workplace performance. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6006 Mobile: 021 642 296 Email: pdawson@tomwake.co.nz |
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Peter De Luca
Position: Chairman of Partners
| Peter De Luca Position: Chairman of Partners |
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| Key roles: | Peter leads the commercial team at Tompkins Wake. He is responsible for managing key client relationships and providing high-level advice principally within the commercial and corporate governance areas. |
| Qualifications: | Peter graduated LLB from the University of Auckland in 1974 and in 1995 graduated Master of Commercial Law (Honours) from the University of Auckland Business School. He has over 25 years experience in practice and has been a partner at Tompkins Wake since 1989. |
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Peter holds a number of professional directorships. He is Chairman of the Boards of DMS Progrowers Limited, Tanlaw Corporation Limited, Waikato Quarries Limited, and Justitia Mutual Association Incorporated. He is also Chairperson of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic Netball Franchise. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6012 Mobile: 021 998 327 Email: pdeluca@tomwake.co.nz |
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Peter Duncan
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Peter leads the personal asset planning team at Tompkins Wake. He is responsible for managing our service delivery to a wide array of SME's and high net worth clients. He provides high-level advice within the personal asset planning and property fields. |
| Qualifications: | Peter graduated LLB from the University of Auckland in 1979 . He has over 25 years experience in practice as Partner of a law firm in Auckland and has been a partner at Tompkins Wake since 2006. |
| Out of the office: | Peter has presented several seminars on a range of property related issues for the Auckland and Waikato Law Societies and the NZ Law Society. Peter has a passion for Celtic music and is involved with the Hamilton Caledonian Society's Pipe Band. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6029 Mobile: 021 987 333 Email: pduncan@tomwake.co.nz |
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Peter Fanning
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Peter is a member of the personal asset planning and property team at Tompkins Wake. |
| Qualifications: | Peter is an experienced senior lawyer specialising in farming law and is an accredited Trust and Estate Planner. He has expertise in structuring entities for commercial property transactions and major property development projects, |
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Peter holds the following offices: NZ Law Society Property law Executive Committee NZ Law Society Transactions Committee (Property)
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| Contact details: | Direct Dial: Mobile: Email: pfanning@tomwake.co.nz |
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Mark Hammond
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Mark provides high-level advice within the employment, property relationship and commercial litigation fields. He is an experienced advocate with over 26 years experience in practice. Mark has appeared at District Court, High Court and appellate levels. As leader of the employment and property relationship teams Mark is responsible for managing a range of key client relationships. He also has a particular interest in sports law. |
| Qualifications: | Mark graduated LLB from the University of Canterbury in 1979. He has over 25 years experience in practice. |
| Out of the office: | Mark is active in the Waikato sporting community and is a director of the Waikato Rugby Union and the Chiefs Franchise. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6014 Mobile: 021 965 718 Email: mhammond@tomwake.co.nz |
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Rob Hart
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Rob provides advice to many of the firm's commercial clients. He is also responsible for managing a range of key client relationships and has niche expertise within the primary processing sector. |
| Qualifications: | Rob graduated LLB (First Class Honours) from Waikato University in 1997. He has worked at other Waikato law firms and as General Counsel of Winstone Pulp and Paper and joined Tompkins Wake in 2007 as an Associate. |
| Out of the office: | Rob was the longest serving Northern Districts Cricket captain and New Zealand Test wicket keeper before retiring from professional cricket in 2004. Rob is on the Board of the Balloons over Waikato and organised the Heart Kids 12 Days of Cricket to raise funds for a echocardio machine at Waikato Hospital. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6036 Mobile: 021 281 9737 Email: rhart@tomwake.co.nz |
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James MacGillivray
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | James leads the commercial litigation and insolvency teams. He is responsible for managing the delivery of services to a range of key commercial clients and provides high-level strategic advice in these dispute related areas. James is an experienced advocate, appearing regularly in the District Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. |
| Qualifications: | James graduated BA LLB from Auckland University in 1995. He has worked at a national law firm in Auckland and more recently at Freshfields, a leading international law firm based in London, UK. |
| Out of the office: | James admirably balances the challenges of a busy legal practice with the demands of a young family of four. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6001 Mobile: 021 540 588 Email: jmacgillivray@tomwake.co.nz |
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Lachlan Muldowney
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Lachlan leads the local government and environmental law teams. He is responsible for managing the delivery of legal services to our local government clients. He provides strategic and compliance advice in these areas and regularly appears as counsel on a range of environmental litigation and public law matters. |
| Qualifications: | Lachlan graduated BA and LLB from the University of Otago in 1995 and is a member of the New Zealand Resource Management Law Association. He has been in practice for over 12 years and has been a partner at Tompkins Wake since 2001. |
| Out of the office: | In addition to a busy young family, Lachlan has a keen interest in sports administration as a director of the Northern Districts Cricket Association and Chairman of the Waikato Rugby Union Disciplinary Appeals Committee. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6022 Mobile: 021 471 490 Email: lmuldowney@tomwake.co.nz |
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Scott Ratuki
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Scott provides commercial and property law advice to many of the firm's clients and has an IP focus. He is also responsible for managing a range of key client relationships. |
| Qualifications: | Scott graduated LLB from Waikato University. He has over nine years experience in commercial law and has been an associate at Tompkins Wake since 2007. |
| Out of the office: | Scott is an accomplished musician and has been involved in bands which have independently released albums and had radio and television airplay. He is on the management committee for the Hamilton Community Arts Council. He is also current Hamilton branch president and National Secretary of the Family Education Network Inc. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6002 Mobile: 021 719 992 Email: sratuki@tomwake.co.nz |
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Linda Robinson
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Linda is a specialist in intellectual property and marketing law and leads the intellectual property team. She advises clients on all areas of intellectual property including trade marks, copyright, design rights, Fair Trading Act, and confidential information, preliminary patent advice and liaison with patent attorneys. Her advice is commercially pragmatic, covering essential business activities such as new product development, optimal protection of innovation, risk management around infringement, commercialisation, strategic IP management, IP aspects of contracts and IP upskilling. She is highly experienced in IP dispute resolution including litigation. |
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LLB(hons) majoring in commercial law and B Com majoring in management and marketing, both from University of Auckland; LLM(merit) in intellectual property from the University of London. In 2008 Linda undertook a World Intellectual Property Organisation Executive Course in Strategic IP Management held at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Linda is a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, is admitted in Victoria, Australia, is an associate of the NZ Institute of Patent Attorneys and a member of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand. Her experience was initially in marketing, and then extensive experience as a commercial litigator before becoming an IP specialist.
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Linda is the author of the indigenous rights, international treaties and biodiversity sections of the NZTE Life Sciences Guide to IP; she edited the book Strategic Foresight:The Power of Standing in the Future and has written a collection of innovation in business stories for the government of Trinidad and Tobago. She has also presented at conferences, and appeared on television and radio to discuss intellectual property issues.
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Philip Taylor
Position: Partner
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| Key roles: | Phil leads the energy and intellectual property & technology teams at Tompkins Wake. He is responsible for managing a range of key commercial client relationships. He provides high-level advice within the commercial field, and has a special interest in entrepreneurial business. |
| Qualifications: | Phil graduated LLB BCom from the University of Otago in 1991 and G Cert App Fin from the Securities Institute of Australia in 2003. He was Senior Associate at Buddle Findlay until 2000 when he moved to Sydney to corporate and technology law firm Gilbert + Tobin. In 2002 Philip joined Fonterra and performed legal and commercial roles (including energy manager) until he joined Tompkins Wake as partner in 2006. |
| Out of the office: | Phil is Chairman of the Health Journeys Foundation, Treasurer of Age Concern (Hamilton) and a member of the establishment board of the Greenfields Network. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, LESANZ and an Associate Member of the NSW Law Society. |
| Contact details: | Direct Dial: (07) 838 6020 Mobile: 021 316 170 Email: ptaylor@tomwake.co.nz |
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