- Due diligence
- Personal and business liabilities
- Refinancing
- Review of loan documentation
- Funding responsibilities and liabilities
- General Security Agreements (GSA) and other securities
- Advice on GST obligations
We provide specialist commercial advice about finance arrangements when dealing with leasing, buying and selling commercial property. We recognise the significant risks involved with commercial property and we work with our clients to help ensure their interests are protected.
Alice Tocher
Partner
Alice Tocher
Partner
Alice has been a Partner of Govett Quilliam since 2014 and has expertise in property, corporate and commercial law. Alice has used her expertise to provide specialist in-house support to several Oil & Gas Corporates.
Now she co-leads the Corporate and Commercial Team. Alice, together with her team, works hard to provide each client with a bespoke legal experience.
Alice has a broad range of corporate, commercial and property law experience. She has worked with all manner of clients from a national infrastructure company, oil and gas corporates, property developers and farmers through to local entrepreneurs and business owners and residential home buyers and sellers. She has developed particular expertise in property rights and interests, including land access agreements, easement agreements, commercial leases, subdivisions, and residential and commercial sales and purchases.
In acting for you, Alice focuses on getting to know you and your business. She strongly believes that developing a good working relationship with her clients is first and foremost.
Alice enjoys spending her spare time with her husband, her two young children, and her friends. She appreciates good food and keeps fit by running. Alice is a board member of the Taranaki Hockey Federation.
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Partner
Rochelle Farmer
Associate
Rochelle Farmer
Associate
Rochelle is an Associate in the Corporate and Commercial Team. Rochelle joined Govett Quilliam after five years at a law firm in Wellington where she worked as a law clerk and lawyer.
Rochelle's work focuses on commercial structures and relationships, company law, corporate advisory, and governance advice. She undertakes commercial property transactions, drafting and reviewing commercial agreements, selling and purchasing businesses, shareholder disputes, and other matters. Rochelle’s broad experience in corporate and commercial law, employment law, privacy, and health and safety gives her a unique overview from which to provide thorough and pragmatic advice.
Rochelle also has several years’ experience specialising in employment law, health and safety, human rights, and privacy. She has advised small and large organisations, as well as individuals, on restructures and change management processes, disciplinary investigations, performance management, and has conducted workplace investigations. She has appeared in the Employment Relations Authority and taken complaints to the Human Rights Commission. Rochelle was previously a member of the Employment Law Committee of the Wellington Law Society.
Rochelle is on the board of Sport Taranaki and also serves on Sport Taranaki’s Audit and Risk Committee. She is passionate about the role of sport and exercise in the development of young people and is interested in people’s overall well-being; including mental health, nutrition, exercise, and being connected into the community.
Rochelle loves spending time outdoors in beautiful Taranaki, particularly tramping, running, and going to the beach. She also enjoys reading novels (especially classics), spending time with her husband, and cooking healthy food.
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Associate
Cameron Hart
Associate
Cameron Hart
Associate
Cameron (Cam) is a corporate and commercial lawyer who returned to Taranaki and joined GQ in 2020 after practicing in a national law firm based in Christchurch.
Business & Company Sale and Purchase / Corporate Governance / Shareholder Arrangements / Energy
Cam is a specialist corporate and commercial lawyer with particular expertise in the sale and purchase of businesses and companies, shareholder arrangements, and drafting and reviewing of complex commercial agreements. Cam also advices on commercial leasing, employee share schemes and corporate governance.
Cam is experienced in advising large cross-border corporates through to start-ups and mum and dad companies wishing to sell shares to their children. His unique combination of experience from working in the energy sector for several years prior to becoming a lawyer, experience in legal private practice, and building his business acumen through secondment as in-house legal counsel to a large energy corporate client has matured a first-class ability to listen and understand issues that a client presents, and convert complex legal issues into digestible, pragmatic advice.
Cam enjoys spending time with his friends and family. He considers himself a foodie and enjoys exploring the menu of local cafés and restaurants.
He also likes to balance the food and drink with keeping active and as much golf as he can fit in to his spare time.
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Associate
25 Dawson Street
Private Bag 2013
DX NP90056
New Plymouth Central
New Plymouth 4342
Phone (06) 768-3700
Fax (06) 768-3701