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Greenwood Roche acted for The Treasury on the settlement and establishment of the consortium structure and have now acted for the consortium in acquiring a significant share in the Kaingaroa Timberlands Limited forestry business from the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. This is a co‑investment with the Fund, the Canadian Public Sector Pension Fund and a Harvard College investment entity.

Greenwood Roche acted for Housing New Zealand in relation to its housing maintenance contracts and associated trust accounting arrangements with the main contractors and their banks.

Greenwood Roche acted for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in relation to the negotiation of a complex tripartite funding arrangement with a social housing provider and its bank.

Tiwai Point is New Zealand's largest single user of electricity by a very large margin and is an integral part of the electricity market and system – employing 800 people directly with a flow-on employment profile of over three thousand jobs.

Greenwood Roche advises New Zealand's Aluminium Smelter and Pacific Aluminium on all aspects of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter electricity supply, including the 2013 and 2015 renegotiations with Meridian Energy, and the restart of the fourth potline in 2018 and subsequent COVID-19 related shutdown in 2020.

We are advising on joint venture agreements, the subdivision of the land, the financing of the development, the development of the lots, and the leasing of the lots to various large retail companies.

Greenwood Roche advised Victoria University on most aspects of the transfer arrangements, including the relevant people, asset and liability transfers, extensive implementation and transitional arrangements, financial arrangements including treatment of funding contracts, specialist premises leasing and also associated joint venture arrangements and downstream acquisitions around particular research product and technology.