Partner

Julika Wahlmann-Smith

BA/LLB
Profile
Julika is a Partner in our Corporate and Commercial team. 

Julika has advised on a wide range of corporate and commercial law issues, including reviewing and advising on commercial contracts, terms of trade and distribution agreements, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, advertising campaigns, consumer law, and intellectual property rights.

Julika regularly contributes to publications of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance where the firm is the New Zealand member.

Julika is fluent in German.

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Experience

Examples of work completed by Julika include:

  • Advising Mataura Valley Milk Limited (MVM) in relation to the development of its $240m dairy processing plant in Gore, Southland, involvement included advising on the investment by China Animal Husbandry Group as the majority shareholding, and ongoing matters relating to the project;
  • Advising the owners of a power company on the sale of its assets to another power company.
  • Advising one of New Zealand’s largest technology distributors in relation to the acquisition of another company in the market, including undertaking extensive due diligence investigations, negotiating the sale and purchase agreement and attending to completion of the transaction and providing ongoing compliance advice in respect of its New Zealand operations.
  • Assisting DEKRA SE, a German company and the world’s largest testing organisation in the automotive sector in its acquisition of the majority of the shares in Vehicle Testing New Zealand Limited, the leading automotive testing service provider in New Zealand with 84 inspection stations nationwide and around 850 employees.
  • The sale of Juken New Zealand Limited’s northern forest plantations to a Sumitomo Corporation owned New Zealand subsidiary.
  • Assisting with the preparation of an Overseas Investment Office application for a European entity to invest in a New Zealand entity with an interest in sensitive land.
  • Advising multinationals in relation to advertising and promotional campaigns in New Zealand, including in respect of dealings with the Commerce Commission.
  • Advising German and other European entities in relation to their extensive investment portfolios and other business interests in New Zealand.
Media
Publications

Insights & Opinion / Julika Wahlmann-Smith

Privacy Commissioner to consult on Privacy Rules for Biometric Information
With the increasing use of facial recognition technology (FRT), retinal scans, and voice recognition by an array of different agencies, privacy concerns about its collection and use are set to be form...
24.11.2023 Posted in Business Advice
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Proposed Privacy Act amendments – What you need to know about indirect personal data collection
A new Privacy Amendment Bill was recently introduced to Parliament.  The Bill proposes to insert a new Information Privacy Principle (IPP) 3A into the Privacy Act 2020, which would impose additional ...
20.09.2023 Posted in Business Advice
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High Court imposes record penalty under Fair Trading Act
One NZ (formerly Vodafone NZ) was recently a record-breaker for all the wrong reasons, receiving the largest penalty to date under the Fair Trading Act 1986 (FTA).   On appeal from the District Court...
29.08.2023 Posted in Business Advice & Disputes
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Forestry in 2023: Things to look out for this year
Our Forestry team considers a few things to look out for this year in the legal landscape of one of New Zealand’s most important industries: Developments in land use management regime applicable to...
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Cheers!… to advertising alcohol…socially responsibly
The Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) Alcohol Advertising and Promotion Code (Code) has been in play for just over a year now and social responsibility is top of the list of concerns with alcohol advertisements.
08.09.2022 Posted in Business Advice
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Shedding Some Light on the Sunscreen (Product Safety Standard) Act 2022
Summer may be over, but there are sunny days ahead for sunscreen advocates with the recent introduction of the Sunscreen (Product Safety Standard) Act 2022.
25.03.2022 Posted in Business Advice
Advertising a financial product or service? Read on.
A new Financial Advertising Code (Code) will replace the existing Code for Financial Advertising effective 1 March 2022 for new, and 1 June 2022 for all existing, financial advertising captured.
25.02.2022 Posted in Business Advice
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