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Helen is a
special counsel 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
Construction Contracts Act adjudications and leaky building cases
(including a major High Court trial) and has added New Zealand
domestic arbitration, particularly in the valuation and commercial
rent review areas, to her extensive international arbitration
experience. She has also developed significant expertise in
professional indemnity insurance issues.
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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