A Fresh Approach to providing legal advice
Tom Evatt & Co believe in providing their clients with excellent advice and service in a fresh, affordable and innovative way.
Our team are experienced, commercially minded and eager to deliver outstanding support to our clients whatever their needs may be.
Tom Evatt & Co are experienced in providing legal advice to businesses, individuals, companies and farmers.
If for any reason, we can’t assist with a client’s needs then we will find someone who can and work with them to ensure client’s needs are satisfied.
Tom Evatt established Tom Evatt & Co in 2018 with client needs first and foremost in a fast paced and busy environment. We utilise technology to ensure that we are accessible when needed without expensive overheads and large office premises.
Our low overheads and commitment to utilising technology to reduce legal fees allow us to provide affordable legal services without compromising advice and service.
WHAT DO WE DO?
Our core services
At Tom Evatt & Co we work with individuals, business owners, farmers, and property developers and investors advising on a broad range of legal issues and projects in the areas of commerce, agriculture and property law. We also act for clients on specific projects ranging from property development to irrigation to compensation claims.
Contact us with your enquiry and we will always either give our advice or give you the details of who to contact if we can’t assist you.
COMMERCIAL / business
> Company Incorporation
> Constitutions and shareholder’s agreements
> Disputes
> Business sales and acquisitions
> Business start ups
> Financing
> Business and shares sales and acquisitions
> Commercial agreements
> Terms of trade
> Franchising
AGRICULTURAL
> Farm sales, purchases and leases
> Stock sales and leasing arrangements
> Financing
> Irrigation
> Water rights
> Easements
> Fencing and boundary disputes
> Farm ownership structures
> Resource Management
PROPERTY
> Commercial: sales and purchases, leases, contracts and licences, subdivisions and development issues
> Residential: conveyancing, insurance issues, compensation claims, subdivisions, boundary adjustments
> Rural: sales and purchases, lifestyle blocks, easements, encumbrances
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
> Consenting
> Consultation
> Hearings
> Submissions
> Enforcement related issues
TRUSTS
> Trust formation and administration
PROJECTS
> Projects incorporating any number of legal and commercial issues where timely integrated advice is required across a broad range of issues
employment / health & Safety
> HR and employment advice and support
> Employment contracts, HR policies and advice on implementation and process
> Disciplinary issues, restructuring and redundancy
> Disputes, personal grievances and mediations
> Health and safety issues, policies, procedures and WorkSafe investigations
relationship property
> Contracting out agreements
> Advice on complex relationship property disputes including company and trust structures
> Separation agreements
construction
> Tender documentation and processes
> Contracts – NZS suite, residential forms of contract
> Risk allocation, sharing and associated liability
> Insurance
>Subcontractor contracts and terms of trade
>Securities, including retentions
>Delay and variation claims
>Payment claims
>EQC On-sold Over-cap assistance and advice
Tom Evatt & Co is a personable firm of lawyers who are cost effective, pragmatic and get results. Tom made a complex issue easy to understand and explained the implications of actions succinctly and accurately. From the first meeting to the end result, the process was seamless. I'd highly recommend getting in touch with Tom Evatt and his team.
- Darren Wright MNZM
OUR TEAM
TOM EVATT
tom.evatt@tomevatt.co.nz
029 200 8819
Tom has experience dealing with a wide range of commercial and resource management issues.
He acts for individuals, property owners, business owners and farmers across a wide range of issues. Tom enjoys complex projects that demand strategically savvy and collaborative solutions, and the longstanding relationships that typically go hand in hand with these types of projects.
Tom’s breadth of knowledge and technical expertise see him representing clients across a broad range of subjects including dispute resolution, commercial, property matters, and the management of their personal assets and wealth protection.
victoria hudson-CRAIG
victoria.hudson-craig@tomevatt.co.nz
021 585 254
Victoria qualified as a Solicitor in England & Wales in 2004 and specialised in property law in the UK until moving to New Zealand in 2015. She qualified as a Barrister & Solicitor in New Zealand in 2022.
Victoria has experience acting for a range of clients both in the agri and urban environments including private clients, trusts, organisations and companies. Victoria works closely with Tom to understand your requirements and provide legal support.
Victoria is primarily focused on Conveyancing, Farm sales and purchases, Small Business sales and purchases, company formation, Wills, Powers of Attorney and providing legal support to all areas of our expertise.
JO TURNBULL
joanna.turnbull@tomevatt.co.nz
021 363 506
Jo specialises in all aspects of personal and rural law.
Having grown up on a North Canterbury farm and worked on both dairy and sheep farms, Jo knows first-hand the complexities of farming operations. She understands the sophisticated legal expectations of the modern farmer to enable effective business decisions.
She combines her practical knowledge with her legal expertise to advise clients on purchasing, selling and leasing farms and stock, as well as asset protection, trust and ownership structures, employment agreements, succession planning and related commercial matters.
Jo brings a friendly and accessible manner to Tom Evatt's rural clients and is dedicated to making the legal process as easy as possible.
prue miller
prue.miller@tomevatt.co.nz
021 023 80405
Prue has over 14 years of experience in general property and commercial law, with particular expertise in contracts and construction law.
She has previously acted for individuals, businesses, charities, local authorities, and government departments. Prue can assist clients with property and business sale / purchases, construction contracts and disputes, general commercial contracts, and private client services.
Prue has a practical and pragmatic approach. She enjoys getting to know her clients and their needs so that her legal advice is tailored their requirements.
As chairperson of the Governors Bay Jetty Restoration Trust for the past three years, Prue has been heavily involved in the tender and subsequent successful construction of the Governors Bay Jetty.
Outside of the office and jetty duties, Prue is married with two sons and enjoys skiing and spending time with her family and friends.
PIP hUGHES
pip.hughes@tomevatt.co.nz
021 228 2800
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