SIMPSON GRIERSON - Key Persons


Anastasiya Gutorova

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Council Member of New Zealand Private Capital
  • Specialist Corporate
Anastasiya is a specialist corporate and commercial lawyer, with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, joint ventures, corporate governance, and overseas investment. Anastasiya is a council member of New Zealand Private Capital, and a member of the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand Inc (INFINZ).

Andrew Harkness

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Andrew Kirk

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Andrew Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Corporate & Commercial

Andrew Wong

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Finance Director - NDip Acc CA
  • Management

Anne Callinan - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Partner
  • Chairman, Named in Elite Women List 2022

Barney Cumberland

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Member of the New Zealand Law Society Tax Law Committee
Barney is a member of the New Zealand Law Society Tax Law Committee; the International Fiscal Association (New Zealand branch); and the International Bar Association Tax Law Committee.

Ben Upton

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Ben was counsel in leading / reported cases on important areas of law and practice: GE v Bartle; Toll Logistics v McKay; Gardiner v Westpac; Lange v Atkinson; Olsen v Goodman Fielder.

Bill Loutit

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Planning & Environment

Bronwyn Heenan

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Caroline Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Business Transformation & Innovation
  • Management
  • Member of the LegalTechNZ Executive Committee
Caroline is a member of the LegalTechNZ executive committee and frequently presents at innovation and legal events such as the International Legal Technology Association Insights event, LawFest and Janders Dean Legal Horizons.

Dominic Toomey

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Don Holborow

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Donna Hurley

Job Titles:
  • Independent Board Member
  • Partner
Donna is an independent Board Member on the Property Institute of New Zealand Incorporated.

Greg Allen

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Member of UDINZ
  • Real Estate
Greg is a member of UDINZ, PINZ, NZFI and the Property Council.

Helen Smith

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Associate Member of the Arbitrators
  • Expert
Helen is an Associate Member of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand Inc. She is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF), the New Zealand Insurance Law Association and the Society of Construction Law.

Hugh Lindo

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Board Chair of Christ 's College
Hugh is currently the Board Chair of Christ's College, Canterbury and is independent Chair of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu's Te Whakaue remuneration committee.

James Caird

Job Titles:
  • Partner

James Craig

Job Titles:
  • Partner

James Hawes

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Jania Baigent

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Member of the New Zealand Insurance Law Association
Jania is a member of the New Zealand Insurance Law Association; and the Auckland Women Lawyers' Association.

Jo Stevenson

Job Titles:
  • People & Culture

Jo-Anne Knight

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Member of the Society of Construction Law
Jo-Anne is a member of the Society of Construction Law; the Auckland Women Lawyers Association; and the National Association of Women in Construction.

John Shackleton

Job Titles:
  • Litigation

Josh Cairns

Job Titles:
  • Banking & Finance

Mathew Taylor - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Michael Pollard

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Michael Weatherall

Job Titles:
  • Construction

Rebecca Rendle

Job Titles:
  • Employment

Richard Watts

Job Titles:
  • IP & ICT

Shan Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Pro Bono

Tim Orsman

Job Titles:
  • Strategy & Markets

Valerie Fogg

Job Titles:
  • Information Services