COVID-19 How your business can weather the storm (updated)
25 August 2021 Is your business feeling the immediate effects of COVID-19 on your livelihood? What are your options and what can you do? It may not be easy, but it’ll be worth it. If you’re after a friendly ear, we can help. Give us a call or drop us an ...
Aug 26, 2021
Coming soon to a Club near you – the new Incorporated Societies Bill
What is the new bill about? From the Taupō Mountain Bike Club to Deaf Aotearoa to the Lindis Pass Conservation Group, incorporated societies are said to “make a significant contribution to New Zealanders’ wellbeing.”[1] Over 113 years have passed since ...
Apr 27, 2021
COVID-19 Hibernation and Safe Harbours – temporary relief from debts for companies but only if you can tick the right boxes
9 April 2020 Changes to the law are often a sleeping remedy for most readers, so, in what has become a time honoured tradition, meaningful soundbite phrases or words are used to make law changes more memorable. But the latest use of the evocative words ...
Apr 8, 2020
Frustration of contracts and COVID-19
25 March 2020 Due to New Zealand moving to Covid-19 alert Level 4 for at least the next four weeks, many New Zealanders will be assessing the impact of the virus on their contractual obligations. In some circumstances it may be possible for the doctrine ...
Mar 25, 2020
Restraints of Trade & Non-Competition Clauses – Independent Contractors
It is common to see a restraint of trade clause in an employment agreement or an agreement for the sale and purchase of a business. But what about independent contractor agreements? Can an independent contractor be subject to a restraint of trade? ...
Dec 3, 2019
Business Owner Conundrum – Considerations of succession and selling
Forty nine percent of our business owners are aged over 50, and half of them are aged over 60. The National Research Bureau recently recorded that 130,000 businesses will be for sale in the next 10 years. Locally in the Wairarapa, that would equate to ...
Oct 23, 2019