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Glen Holm-Hansen

LLB (Hons), BA
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Glen Holm-Hansen is a Partner in the Disputes Team. He specialises in construction disputes and regulatory investigations, as well as co-leading our insolvency and restructuring practice.

Glen joined Hesketh Henry in January 2018 having previously worked in a leading national law firm for nearly 10 years.  Glen advises on a wide range of commercial disputes for corporate clients and has specific expertise in regulatory investigations, insolvency and restructuring matters, construction disputes, and large scale complex litigation. 

Glen co-leads our insolvency and restructuring practice.  His insolvency and restructuring experience includes advising insolvency practitioners, creditors, and debtors, on all aspects of insolvency law including liquidations, receiverships, administrations, director duties, lending and security arrangements, and security enforcement. 

Glen regularly assists corporate entities with investigations commenced by regulatory bodies including the Commerce Commission and advises on compliance matters in relation to the Commerce Act 1986, the Fair Trading Act 1986, and Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003).

Glen also has particular expertise in the construction sector, acting for contractors and consultants in mediations, arbitrations, and Construction Contract Act adjudications.   

Glen is a skilled courtroom advocate with extensive experience before the New Zealand courts at all levels, as well as in arbitration and mediation.  Clients recommend Glen in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 directory as a “stand out” in construction matters and “very hard working and knowledgeable” for dispute resolution.

Glen is a member of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ) as well as the Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association New Zealand (RITANZ).  He graduated with conjoint degrees in law (honours) and arts from the University of Auckland in 2007 and was admitted to the bar in September 2007. 

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Experience

Examples of work completed by Glen include:

  • Advising insolvency practitioners, creditors, and debtors, acting on a range of matters associated with distressed or failing entities, including representing clients in Court.
  • Advising contractors and specialist subcontractors on claims involving variations, prolongation, thickening, measured works, and extensions of time under commercial and civil contracts.
  • Handling significant adjudications under the Construction Contracts Act 2002 for commercial projects.
  • Advising both national and global corporations in relation to regulatory investigations undertaken by the Commerce Commission in a range of sectors.
  • Advising leading banking and peer-to-peer lending institutions in relation to investigations and under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 and Fair Trading Act 1986.
  • Acting for insurers in relation to claims arising from the Canterbury Earthquakes.
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Public consultation on NZS 3916:2025 and NZS 3917:2025
Public consultation on the draft DZ 3916 Conditions of contract for building and civil engineering – Design and construct and DZ 3917 Conditions of contract for building and civil engineering – F...
13.02.2025 Posted in Construction
Court of Appeal clarifies purchasers’ and contractors’ creditor liquidation status when suppliers of prefabricated products go insolvent
Prior to the Court of Appeal’s decision in Francis v Gross [2024] NZCA 528 on 17 October 2024 (Podular (COA)), there was a period of uncertainty for building contractors as to their status in respec...
UK Supreme Court: Are collateral warranties considered construction contracts?
The UK Supreme Court recently released Abbey Healthcare (Mill Hill) Ltd v Augusta 2008 LLP (formerly Simply Construct (UK) LLP) [2024] UKSC 23 determining that a collateral warranty used in the constr...
17.09.2024 Posted in Construction & Disputes
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Contractors take note – are any of your retentions clauses prohibited provisions?
In Stevensons Structural Engineers 1978 Ltd (in liq) v McMillan & Lockwood (PN) Ltd & Anor [2024] NZHC 2415, the High Court held that the timing for payment out of retentions in certain subcon...
05.09.2024 Posted in Construction
UK Court of Appeal rules that courts can order parties to engage in ADR: Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416
The England and Wales Court of Appeal (EWCA) has held that in certain circumstances, the courts can order parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) or stay proceedings to allow the par...
24.07.2024 Posted in Construction & Disputes
What to expect from payment disputes under construction contracts in 2024: a return to orthodoxy
Following the departure from the fundamental principle of the Construction Contracts Act 2002 (CCA) “pay now argue later” in South Pacific Industrial Ltd v Demasol Ltd [2021] NZHC 3597, the Court ...
14.06.2024 Posted in Construction & Disputes
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Call me? Care is required when calling on a bond
In the recent High Court decision Hawkins Ltd v Elizabeth Properties Ltd, Hawkins was successful in preventing EPL from calling on a $3m bond pending determination of a dispute principally over the ap...
10.04.2024 Posted in Construction
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