Law firm · Auckland, New Zealand
Russell McVeagh
- Deals
- 5
- M&A
- 3
- Equity raisings
- 2
- Latest
- May 2026
What they do
Russell McVeagh is a New Zealand law firm with offices in Auckland, Wellington and Queenstown whose mergers and acquisitions team advises on takeovers, private company M&A, contested bids and distressed M&A.
- Services
- M&A law, Capital markets law, Private equity law, Banking and finance law, Competition and regulatory approvals, Restructuring and insolvency law
- Specialties
- healthcare and aged care, energy, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, infrastructure, financial services
- Kinds of deal
- distressed M&A
From russellmcveagh.com, checked 7 Nov 2026: /our-expertise/mergers-acquisitions/, /
Deals
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5 of 5 deals
| Advisers | ||||||||||
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| May 2026 | TruScreen Group | – | – | Entitlement offer | Legal adviser to the issuer | Completed | – | Medical devices and technology | Addisons (issuer) | TruScreen Group entitlement offer |
| May 2025 | TruScreen Group | – | – | Share purchase plan | Legal adviser to the issuer | Completed | – | Medical devices and technology | TruScreen Group share purchase plan | |
| Feb 2025 | NZ Windfarms | – | Meridian Energy | Scheme | Legal adviser to Meridian Energy (acquirer) | Announced | – | Renewable energy and storage | Clare Capital (buy-side) | Meridian Energy acquisition of NZ Windfarms |
| Jan 2025 | Connexa | Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) | Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) | Stake | Legal adviser to Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) (acquirer) | Completed | – | Telecommunications and digital infrastructure | Allens (buy-side) | Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) stake in Connexa |
| 2025 | Fonterra global consumer and associated businesses | Fonterra Co-operative Group | Lactalis | Acquisition | Legal adviser to Fonterra Co-operative Group (seller) | Completed | – | Food and beverage | Jarden (sell-side)Herbert Smith Freehills KramerCraigs Investment Partners (sell-side)J.P. Morgan (sell-side)Sudath Perera Associates (sell-side) | Lactalis acquisition of Fonterra global consumer and associated businesses |
Listed on their website
- Fonterra sale of global consumer and associated businesses to Lactalis NZ$4.22 billion
- Pacific Equity Partners acquisition of 75% stake in Spark New Zealand's data centre business
- Tilt Renewables takeover by scheme of arrangement NZ$3.24 billion
- QIC acquisition of a 50% interest in Vector's metering business $2.51b
- Pacific Equity Partners sale of Evolution Healthcare to QIC
- Trade Me takeover by Apax Partners by scheme of arrangement $2.6 billion
- Carlyle Group acquisition of Accolade Wines US$717 million
- ANZ and lending syndicate on financing of InfraRed's acquisition of C3
Transactions the firm lists on its own website, checked 7 Nov 2026. Those FundComb has recorded link to the deal.
Activity
By announcement date; raisings and IPOs by their own date.
Sector of the business bought or funded.
Disclosed value in Australian dollars.
Repeat clients
- TruScreen Group2 deals
People on these deals
All 14 people →- Ben Paterson 1 deal
- Bradley Aburn 1 deal
- Brigette Shone 1 deal
- Craig Shrive 1 deal
- David Butler 1 deal
- David Hoare 1 deal
- Emma Peterson 1 deal
- Fred Ward 1 deal
- Hamish Beckett 1 deal
- Hannah Wilson 1 deal
- Joe Edwards 1 deal
- Joe Windmeyer 1 deal
Offices and contact
Contact
- Website
- russellmcveagh.com ↗
- Enquiries
- Contact page ↗
- Company page ↗
From the firm's own website.
Offices
- Auckland Level 30, Vero Centre, 48 Shortland Street, 1140 +64 9 367 8000 Office page ↗
- Queenstown The Mountaineer, Level 1, 32 Rees Street, 9300 +64 3 477 8863 Office page ↗
- Wellington Level 24, NTT Tower, 157 Lambton Quay, 6011 +64 4 499 9555 Office page ↗