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Russell McVeagh's Ground-breaking Deals Win Big at ALB Awards
Russell McVeagh was delighted to win two 'Deal of the Year' awards at the Macquarie Bank ALB Australasian Law Awards 2011, held in Sydney on May 19.
Russell McVeagh won the Australasian Debt Market Deal of the Year for its ground-breaking work on the Bank of New Zealand's covered bonds issue. This deal, which established New Zealand and Australasia's first ever covered bond programme, has already collected a swathe of industry awards including the Structured Finance & Securitisation Deal of the Year at the IFLR Asian Awards and the prestigious INFINZ Debt Deal of the Year.
Russell McVeagh also won the prestigious New Zealand Deal of the Year for our involvement in the biggest change to local Government in New Zealand's history, the Auckland local authority amalgamation aka Supercity. Valued at over US$21bn, this was New Zealand’s largest ever merger and followed on from a Royal Commission investigation into appropriate governance arrangements for New Zealand’s largest city.
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Russell McVeagh awarded Social Heroes Award
Russell McVeagh has been awarded a Social Heroes Award by the Robin Hood Foundation, in recognition of the firm's long term partnership with the Mangere Community Law Centre.
Russell McVeagh has provided pro bono advice at the Centre to the residents of Mangere on a one person, one day per week basis for over 23 years.
The high profile award was presented by the Prime Minister, John Key and Robin Hood Chair, Sharon Hunter and accepted on behalf of the firm by CEO Gary McDiarmid in Auckland on July 23 2010. Russell McVeagh hosted representatives of the Mangere centre at the event, and the firm was also represented by Richard McIlraith, partner in charge of the relationship, solicitors Emily Moore and Kylie Dunn, volunteers and managers of the day to day resourcing of the centre, and former Partner Gerard Curry, who was instrumental in setting up the original arrangement with the Mangere law centre.
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