Peter specialises in general corporate and commercial law advice including corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracting and Crown transactions and projects, and procurement and probity advice for large scale and/or complex procurement projects and Crown asset disposal projects.

Peter’s merger and acquisition experience includes transactions involving registered banks (including ANZ on the acquisition of National Bank), finance companies, generation and transmission assets and entities, telecommunications, technology, and manufacturing assets.

He has extensive experience in the electricity sector having acted for 20 of the then 48 power boards on their corporatisation. He continues to advise electricity distribution companies on all aspects of their business including connection terms and ownership issues, general contractual arrangements, transmission and back up supply arrangements, electricity services agreements, and gas and electricity purchase agreements.

He provides advice on geothermal wind and solar generation projects, co-generation and distributed generation.

He has acted for the Crown on a wide range of matters including the implementation of the Crown Retail Guarantee Scheme and acted as an independent expert adviser to Treasury in relation to the extension of the Mixed Ownership Model (MOM) in respect of several State Owned Enterprises. He advised the Crown in relation to the interim arrangements with Rocket Lab which enabled the construction of rocket launch facilities in New Zealand and rocket launches in advance of the adoption of a regulatory regime, and he advised the Ministry for Economic Development on the Pyke River Royal Commission.

In addition to his role as independent adviser to the MOM programme, he was also the probity adviser to the MOM programme. He was appointed the probity and independent transactions adviser by The Treasury providing transaction and probity advice in relation to the Social Housing Reform Programme. He has also provided probity advice to LINZ. He was the probity adviser to a consortium of 9 (of the 12) regional councils in relation the procurement process conducted for the provision an interim bus ticketing system. More recently he acted as probity advisor to the appointment of default KiwiSaver providers and continues to provide probity advice to regional authorities on Public Transport procurement processes. He also continues to provide probity services to the Department of Internal Affairs.

Peter is admitted in New Zealand as well as in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia.