Brian is a partner in the DLA Phillips Fox Lawyers Wellington office and has over 20 years experience. His specialist areas of practice are commercial, business and corporate law. He also advises a wide range of clients in both the private and public sectors on a wide range of commercial matters, including restructuring, corporate governance, director’s duties, and legislative compliance.

Brian has significant experience in drafting, advising on and negotiating commercial contracts, procurement and tendering procedures, outsourcing contracts, service and supply contracts, technology agreements, consultancy agreements, commercialisation of intellectual property rights, licenses, funding agreements and research and development agreements.

Brian also has considerable expertise in public sector procurement for central and local government organisations. He has developed specialist knowledge in public sector and in particular health sector requirements and guidelines for procurement and tendering. Brian’s due diligence experience has been in numerous industry sectors such as financial services (insurance), manufacturing, government entities, distribution and health. As part of due diligence Brian is required to peruse and advise on the implications of a wide range of commercial documents.

Brian has assisted and advised clients in relation to establishing in-house precedents, manuals, formatting, development of procurement guidelines and standardisation of a suite of document precedents. He has given commercial advice to Contract Managers on market practice, best practice and precedent drafting, including a workshop on clear communication through drafting.

Brian has presented at many conferences in New Zealand on contracting related issues and undertakes contracting workshops for clients.