TGT - Key Persons
Brittany is a solicitor specialising in non-contentious private client services.
Job Titles:
- Legal & Trust Executives
- Senior Legal Executive
Colette is a qualified, registered legal executive. Her areas of specialisation including administering trusts, personal asset planning, incorporating and administering companies together with general private client matters including estates and probate, residential and commercial conveyancing.
Emma is a law graduate from the University of Canterbury. She works in the areas of trusts, wills, succession, relationship property and estates. With experience gained through volunteering at Community Law Canterbury, she has a passion for helping clients navigate the legal landscape with empathy and clarity.
Emma is in the process of completing her Professional Legal Studies course and is due to be admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand by the end of the year.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Member of the Society of Trust
- Solicitors
Fiona is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Member of Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners ( STEP )
- Member of the Society of Trust
- Specialist
Greg is a specialist in succession law, including estate planning, the establishment and administration of trusts and charitable entities, relationship property, and domestic and international estates. He also has a special interest in the law of mental capacity and adult decision-making.
Greg is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, a member of the Family Law Section and the Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, and a contributor to Bloomsbury's International Estate Succession.
Henry works with the team with creation and administration of trusts, personal assets planning, wills, EPAs, and charitable matters. He frequently conducts research on complex legal issues and is able to produce legal advice that offers insight into a difficult and ambiguous issue. Henry is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Prior to joining TGT Legal and graduating from law school, Henry worked as a litigation assistant to support litigators with a wide range of civil, criminal, and family matters at a different firm. His experience remains helpful when contentious matters arise.
Apart from the law of trusts, Henry is also passionate about public law and was on the Law Dean's List for Law of Democracy
Qualifications
2022 - Admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Partner
- Adviser
- Honorary Solicitor to the Auckland Chevra Kadisha Benevolent Society
- Member of ICANZ Trust Special Interest Group
Juliet Moses is a highly skilled and trusted adviser having built a reputation for understanding client-family dynamics, while recognising and respecting each family member's objectives, needs, interests and values.
Juliet provides advice on all legal issues relating to trusts as well as on estate planning, relationship property, estates, and wills. She regularly works with trustees, beneficiaries and other stakeholders, advising them on their rights and obligations, as well as acting as a trustee.
Juliet is a regular chair and presenter of seminars and author of articles on issues arising in those areas. She regularly speaks at New Zealand Law Society and Auckland District Law Society Inc conferences, and at STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) events, as well as being quoted in the media on such issues. Juliet is the chair of the STEP education committee and a recipient of the STEP Founder's Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Juliet is Honorary Solicitor to the Auckland Chevra Kadisha Benevolent Society and Trust Board, and to the Aorangi Club. She is also actively involved in community organisations in other ways. Among other things, she is a trustee of the Astor Foundation, working to maintain a peaceful and harmonious society in New Zealand and addressing issues arising from extremism and religious and ethnic hatred. She is also a trustee of the Auckland Foundation, the community foundation of Auckland, Tamaki Makaurau.
Qualifications and memberships
Katharine has many years' experience as a personal assistant and administrator within various sectors, including assting with the management of client trusts and the incorporation and administration of companies. As Trust Executive, Katharine provides assistance with the management and stewardship of family wealth held in family trusts and related services.
Job Titles:
- Senior Solicitor
- Member of Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners ( STEP )
Maysie advises clients on their trusts and general private client matters, including the creation, review and restructuring of trust and personal asset structures and estate planning. She has a keen interest in and previous experience dealing with all aspects of wills, probate, letters of administration and both simple and complex estate administration. Client feedback praised Maysie for her "professional and kindly" manner and her expertise in engaging "in the necessary legal gymnastics" to administer a cross-border estate from the beginning to end.
Pravir is also the co-founder of and consultant to the CCH Trust Service, a software-based trust database and precedent system.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Founding Partner
- Trustee
- President of the Auckland Medical Research Foundation
Richard is a trustee of the inter-generational succession trusts of many families. He provides clients with a broad range of succession and asset planning advice always aiming to ensure that they have the benefit of structures and plans that achieve their objectives and are "fit for purpose".
Richard is a founding partner of TGT Legal. Before founding TGT Legal in 2002 he was a partner at Bell Gully and leader of their private client team.
Richard is President of the Auckland Medical Research Foundation, a Trustee of the Halberg Foundation and advises several charitable and not-for-profit organisations.
Job Titles:
- Practice Manager
- Chartered Secretary
Robyn is a qualified Chartered Secretary and her background is primarily in the banking and legal sectors, both locally and internationally. Robyn has experience in developing and maintaining strong systems and processes resulting in effective and sustainable change.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Spokesperson for the New Zealand Jewish Council
Stephen had extensive experience as corporate lawyer before transitioning to being a trust lawyer at TGT. Stephen now specialises exclusively in providing advice on legal issues relating to trusts, general estate planning, relationship property, estates, and wills. He regularly works with trustees, beneficiaries, and their advisers, advising them on their rights and obligations. His corporate, commercial experience underpins the practical advice he can provide as a trust lawyer on long term succession issues to business families and those holding long term legacy assets. His experience and expertise are particularly valuable where highly bespoke trust structures are required to provide for the devolution of strategic assets to the next generation.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Member of Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners ( STEP )
Zoe joined TGT Legal after two years at a large commercial firm in the banking and finance team. Zoe advises on all aspects of trust law including the establishment and administration of trusts, duties of trustees and rights of beneficiaries, resettlements and variations. She also advises on personal asset planning (including wills, use of trusts and memoranda of guidance for trustees), relationship property matters, powers of attorney, probate and estate administration and charitable trusts. In 2021 Zoe completed and was awarded with distinction the NZ STEP Diploma in Trusts & Estates.