Rick Farr

Director / Solicitor

Practice Area:

Commercial Law & Contracts, Civil Disputes, Relationship Property, Family Law, Civil Litigation, Business Expansion & Restructuring, Local Body & Regulatory Prosecutions, Joint Venture & Shareholder Agreements.

Specialisations:

Customs prosecutions, complex and high value commercial contracts, franchising terms of trade, building contracts and disputes, business expansions and restructuring, civil litigation and injunctive relief, complex commercial disputes, ACC reviews, shareholder and director disputes.

Rick is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer and a skilled commercial litigator. He has over 35 years’ experience conducting litigation in the New Zealand courts where he has appeared on many and diverse matters. Rick also has direct GM & CEO experience through various contracting roles. Rick provides specialist advice on all aspects of business expansion and restructuring, commercial (including trans-Tasman) transactions and has significant negotiation, dispute resolution and insolvency practice. Rick has also had significant success in criminal prosecutions and many jury trials.

Rick says “We need to remember that the law and its systems are the means by which our clients achieve their goals and not the ends. They are tools to be applied, with integrity, to assist our clients in their endeavours”.