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Mangakahia forest
Acted for a fund advised by Global Forest Partners LP on the sale of its interest in the Mangakahia forest. 

Tenon
Advised Tenon (then trading as Fletcher Challenge Forests) on the sale of its extensive North Island forestry estate to Kiwi Forests Group and a consortium of North American forestry investors including Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Hancock Natural Resources Group. 

Nelson Forests
Advised Nelson Forests on its acquisition of Weyerhauser Company's 51% interest in a Nelson Forest joint venture and the remaining 49% of the joint venture from RII New Zealand Forests Inc.

Hancock Natural Resource Group
Advised Carter Holt Harvey on one of the largest and most complex forestry transactions ever carried out in New Zealand - the sale of essentially all of its forestry interests, including approximately 260,000ha of forestry estate, to US-based forestry manager Hancock Natural Resource Group Inc. 

Matariki Forests
Advised Carter Holt Harvey on the sale of 94,300ha of forest estate and related assets in New Zealand to Matariki Forests, an incorporated joint venture between Rayonier Inc and RREEF Infrastructure, the global infrastructure arm of Deutsche Asset Management. 

Rayonier
Advised on Rayonier's acquisition of a substantial forest estate from the New Zealand Government for approximately US$200 million during the privatisation of state-owned forests and on establishing various joint ventures with US institutional investors and others.