Clive has wide-ranging experience in corporate and commercial law. His special expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.

Clive's experience extends across a broad range of industries and sectors including energy, forestry and insurance.

His forestry sector work has involved acquisition and dispositions, joint ventures and all types of rights and contracts. He advises on acquisitions and dispositions in the insurance industry and provides general commercial insurance law advice.

Qualifications

BSc, LLB(Hons), University of Auckland

Admitted

1981 New Zealand

International Career

  • Carlow Eastern & Partners, London
    1982-1983

Publications

Contact

Email: Clive Taylor

DDI: +64 9 916 8943

Mobile: +64 21 667 522

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Areas of Expertise

Work Highlights

Prime Infrastructure recapitalisation
Advised Prime Infrastructure (formerly Babcock & Brown Infrastructure) on the New Zealand aspects of its A$1.8 billion recapitalisation including a A$1.5 billion capital raising, convertible notes issue, debt facilities, capital structure, simplified disclosure prospectus and conversion of Subordinated Prime Adjusting Reset Convertible Securities.

Babcock & Brown Powerco sale
Advised Babcock & Brown on Babcock & Brown Infrastructure's sale of half its interest in New Zealand's third largest power and gas utility, Powerco. Queensland Investment Corporation agreed to buy a 50 per cent equity stake in Powerco for NZ$400 million.

BBI Networks (New Zealand) Limited issue of secured bonds
Acted for BBI on the offering of up to NZ$210 million of secured bonds, including a principal amount of NZ$150 million and the right to accept oversubscriptions of up to NZ$60 million. This issue featured the use of an unusual securities structure.

Carter Holt Harvey's sale of its forestry business to Hancock Natural Resources Group
Advised Rank Group's subsidiary, Carter Holt Harvey, a New Zealand-based forest products company and also New Zealand's largest forest owner, on the sale of its forestry business comprising substantially all of its forestry interests including approximately 260,000 hectares of freehold and non-freehold forestry estate, to US-based forestry manager Hancock Natural Resource Group Inc. for in excess of NZ$1.5 billion. This was one of the biggest and most complex property sales in New Zealand's history.

Pacific Equity Partners
Advised Australia's Pacific Equity Partners on its NZ$250 million acquisition of New Zealand's Tegel Foods from HJ Heinz Company.