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Hannah Wilson
Partner
Auckland
Corporate Advisory
+64 9 367 8311 DDI [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-wilson-reddy-55204346/
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Hannah is a highly experienced corporate lawyer advising clients on all aspects of corporate and commercial transactions. With over a decade's experience in M&A and commercial contracting she regularly works with New Zealand's largest corporates to deliver innovative solutions to their most strategically important and complex commercial transactions.

Hannah works for both public and private clients across a wide range of industry sectors, including manufacturing, life sciences and consumer. She has extensive experience acting on sell-side mandates and regularly works with offshore clients on the sale of business interests in New Zealand. Clients value Hannah’s combined strengths in M&A and commercial transactions as she knows how to negotiate successful outcomes while understanding the need to build relationships that will last after the deal is done. 

Her clients include some of New Zealand's biggest organisations including, The Warehouse Group, Fonterra Co-operative Group, Genesis Energy, and Woolworths New Zealand. 

Hannah returned to New Zealand to join the partnership at Russell McVeagh after an extended period at global law firm Hogan Lovells. 

Related expertise

Corporate Advisory
Mergers & Acquisitions
Strategic Sourcing
Transportation, Shipping & Logistics
Health
ESG, Climate Change and Sustainability
Experience

Hannah's recent experience includes advising:

  • Fonterra on its $4.22 billion sale of its global consumer and associated businesses to Lactalis.
  • The Warehouse Group Limited on its divestment of the Business and Assets of Torpedo7 Limited.
  • Rexel SA (a French listed multichannel electrical parts distributor) on the sale of Ideal Electrical.
  • Acting for global veterinary medicines business, Elanco, on the divestment of its animal health product manufacturing business in New Zealand.
  • A major New Zealand grocery retailer on the transition and implementation of its new New Zealand multi-partner loyalty programme.
  • Genesis Energy on the corporate aspects of its joint venture with FRV Australia to develop solar-farms as part of Genesis Energy's Future-gen strategy to develop 2,650 GWh of new renewable generation by 2030.
  • QIC Private Capital on the successful completion of its purchase of 50% of Vector Limited's New Zealand and Australian metering business.
  • Ford Motor Company on a strategic alliance with Volkswagen for the development of vehicles and sharing investments in innovation and technology. Hannah has led negotiations on a wide-range of key strategic issues relating to the overall alliance.
  • Novartis on the separation of their Manufacturing and Supply arrangements as a consequence of the spin-off of Alcon and its listing on SIX Swiss Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. In connection with this transaction Hannah was seconded to Novartis' technical operations team in Basel, Switzerland.
  • Daimler AG on their investments in the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team and advising on the UK aspects of Daimler AG's global corporate restructuring, to give effect to the separation of its car and van and the truck and bus businesses.
  • Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited on its establishment of ‘Trading Among Farmers’, including establishing a new private share market operated by NZX Limited, an initial public offering by the Fonterra Shareholders’ Fund and its listing on both the NZSX and the ASX.
  • Genesis Energy on its securities offering and listing on the NZX pursuant to the Government MOM process.
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