What we do

Specialist advice, clearly explained.

Privacy, data, AI, technology, intellectual property and disputes often overlap. Choose a specialist area below, or start with the problem you need to solve.

Privacy, data & AI

Use information responsibly and with confidence.

From everyday advice to complex AI, biometric and breach matters, the work is shaped around the decision your organisation needs to make.

01

Privacy advice & compliance

Clear, practical advice on how the Privacy Act applies to the information your organisation collects, uses, stores and shares.

02

Privacy governance & maturity

Build privacy capability that is visible, accountable and sustainable across the organisation.

03

Outsourced privacy function

An ongoing privacy function on a monthly retainer, combining AI assisted delivery with lawyer certification for every output that matters.

04

Privacy impact assessments

Test a proposed project, system or data use before decisions become difficult or expensive to reverse.

05

Biometrics & facial recognition

Specialist advice for technologies that identify, verify or categorise people through their physical or behavioural characteristics.

06

AI governance & responsible use

Specialist AI law and governance advice for the way your organisation buys, builds and uses artificial intelligence.

07

Data breaches & incident response

Calm, strategic legal support when personal or confidential information is lost, accessed, disclosed or used without authority.

08

Privacy complaints & investigations

Thoughtful support through complaints, internal reviews, regulator engagement and contested privacy issues.

09

Access, correction & individual rights

Respond to requests about personal information accurately, fairly and within a process your team can manage.

10

Data sharing & overseas disclosure

Design arrangements for sharing information that are lawful, transparent and commercially workable in New Zealand and overseas.

11

Privacy policies, notices & consent

Explain information practices in language people can understand and align the words with what the organisation actually does.

12

Workplace privacy

Navigate the collection, monitoring, use and disclosure of employee and applicant information with care.

13

Privacy training & Privacy Officer support

Give the people responsible for privacy the confidence, tools and specialist support to make sound decisions.

Commercial, technology & information

Protect value while keeping important relationships workable.

Focused commercial advice for technology, services that use AI, data, confidentiality and digital products. This is not general corporate housekeeping.

Intellectual property

Create, own, commercialise and enforce.

Commercial and strategic IP advice across ownership, licensing, collaboration, brand protection, infringement and enforcement.

Explore the IP practice

Disputes, enforcement & reputation

Protect the position and resolve the problem.

Strategic advice on complex contractual disputes, construction claims, breach of confidence, defamation, privacy issues and intellectual property enforcement.

Not sure where it fits?

Start with the question you need answered.

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