Graham Harford

Director

Graham has extensive experience acting for a wide range of leading international and local corporate clients as well as iwi-based organisations. He is regarded as being able to advise on complex transactions, including shareholder arrangements, on both a legal and commercial basis, with a key strength being his ability to work through complexities and arrive at negotiated solutions. 

Graham has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions, the sale and purchase of shares and assets, joint ventures, takeovers (under both the New Zealand and Australian Takeover Codes), foreign investment (in New Zealand and Australia) and in New Zealand Treaty negotiations and Maori aspects of commercial negotiations. He also has considerable experience in capital markets and securities law matters, company law, governance and trans-Tasman legal and structuring issues.

Graham recently advised an iwi settlement trust and its associated corporate entities on a range of matters related to its ongoing operations, including, advice related to geothermal energy (including supply agreements and land rights), forestry, commercial property acquisitions and leasing, business structuring and financing.

Graham was a founding partner of Dawson Harford & Partners in 2004.

Please refer to the Capability Statement to view the Governance and other roles Graham currently holds, as well as further transactions he has advised on. 

Contact

t: +64 9 355 1520
m: +64 21 648 839
e: graham.harford@dawsonharford.com
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