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Helen is a senior associate in our Litigation and
Dispute Resolution team. Helen studied English and Politics for
her BA and completed a Masters in Philosophy at Auckland before
studying law at Oxford. She was admitted as a barrister in
London before moving to New York where she worked as a
litigation attorney for 15 years with a leading US and
international law firm Shearman and Sterling specialising in
commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Helen has strong expertise in construction litigation, director
obligations, insider trading and securities fraud and
represented both defendants and plaintiffs in class and
derivative actions. Since returning to New Zealand, Helen has
further developed her construction law expertise in connection
with leaky building and Construction Contracts Act cases . She
has also added New Zealand domestic arbitration, particularly in
the valuation area, to her extensive international arbitration
expertise.
Helen is a problem solver with highly developed analytical and
strategic skills. Her approach is to identify the core of what
has to be proven to win a case, then develop a focused and
frequently creative strategy to achieve this. For her it’s about
presenting the facts in a compelling fashion, chipping away at
the opposition’s weaknesses, identifying and interpreting the
points of law well, often in a new light, and bringing all these
aspects together to paint a canvas for success. Helen views this
as the art of law in action.
In addition to her New Zealand Law Society membership, Helen is
a member of the New York State Bar Association and the
Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.. |
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