Property

Geoff’s speciality is rural law and he has built up an extensive knowledge in the areas of farm conveyancing, company and trust structures for farm ownership and estate planning for farmers.

Geoff also has considerable experience in all residential and commercial conveyancing areas and the formation and administration of family trusts.

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Geoff is the Chairman of the Inglewood Development Trust, an honorary solicitor to Taranaki Golf Association and solicitor to many local sporting organisations and schools.

Geoff is a keen golfer and enjoys fishing, tennis, rugby and cricket.

Alice has a broad range of property and commercial 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's experience includes:

• Acting for a variety of home buyers and sellers.
• Assisting commercial clients with leasing, commercial property sale and purchases, shareholder and partnership agreements
• Assisting farming clients with buying and selling farms, rural leases and succession planning
• Providing legal support and advice to oil and gas companies in New Zealand and Australia.

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Alice enjoys spending her spare time with her husband, her two young children, Charlotte and William, and her friends. She appreciates good food and keeps fit by running and playing hockey. Alice is a board member of the Taranaki Hockey Federation.

Since starting at Govett Quilliam, Priyaanka has gained experience in reviewing contractual terms of commercial agreements and commercial leases, and has worked on a variety of small to medium business sales and purchases. Her areas of work in the commercial area include contractual review, business sales and purchases, commercial property sales and purchases, commercial refinancing, commercial leases, and other general commercial matters.
 
Since joining the property team Priyaanka has been working on developing her Property Law foundation. She has experience in contractual review, conveyancing and property refinancing, and can provide general advice in all areas of Property Law.

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Priyaanka is a NZIFBB fitness athlete and dedicates a lot of her spare time to the gym and keeping active. She enjoys getting out to local eateries and events involving food, art and music.

Priyaanka also enjoys exploring the beautiful outdoors of Taranaki and getting away on weekends for adventures further afield.

As a dairy farmer herself, Margaret has experience in hands-on dairying as well as legal issues concerning farmers.

Margaret has also dealt and continues to deal with farmers negotiating with oil companies, buying and selling dairy farms, residential property matters, wills, trusts, commercial business sales and trusts. Margaret has a good relationship with many outside organisations. Her range of skills also extends to editorship of a Govett Quilliam specialist newsletter, that is sent to our rural clients.

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Margaret has five children and is actively involved in the PTA at Sacred Heart Girls' College New Plymouth. Margaret is also involved with dancing Taranaki, having two daughters doing ballet and jazz, as well as being actively involved in the St Josephs Church community in New Plymouth.

Margaret enjoys ballet, farming and spending time with her family.

Karen has extensive knowledge regarding conveyancing, refinancing and generally assisting private clients regarding their on-going needs.

Karen has a large loyal client base and many of her clients are generational with the children of her original clients now seeking her legal expertise.

Karen has been involved with trusts, asset protection,  Wills and Enduring Powers of Attorney.
Buying and selling of farm properties is also an area that Karen enjoys.

Over the years Karen has been involved with subdivisions and works closely with clients to
achieve their goals within the timeframes required.

Outside of Govett Quilliam

Karen has two sons who have semi flown the nest (maybe not so financially) so she has more time to spend on her own pursuits. She enjoys visiting the wonderful places Taranaki has to offer and one of the highlights of each year is visiting the various gardens in the Garden Spectacular.

Suzanne specialises in conveyancing and commercial work, and in particular the area of residential conveyancing and refinancing matters.

Suzanne's experience includes:

• Residential sale and purchases;
• Rural sale and purchases;
• Refinancing;
• Change of trustees;
• Small subdivisions.

Outside of Govett Quilliam

Suzanne enjoys spending time with family, travelling, learning the guitar and keeping fit.

Sandy works as a legal executive in the Inglewood office and undertakes a large portion of the conveyancing generated through that office.  She is also responsible for and extremely competent in all aspects of sub-divisional work including drafting of easements and land covenants and is experienced with all matters relating to e-dealing and working with Land Information New Zealand to achieve outcomes beneficial to her clients.

She also has a keen interest in elder law and is responsible for estate administration at the Inglewood office.  

Outside of Govett Quilliam

Sandy enjoys her grandchildren, the outdoors, travel and dancing (all genres but mainly ceroc and ballroom).  

In 2012 she gained her Legal Executive Diploma which was a great achievement studying while bringing up two children..

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Now that her children are older and independent she enjoys "me time" in her gardens, walking, travelling and spending time with her family and friends.

She has also joined Canine Friends and now takes her dog Storm for weekly visits to Marinoto Rest Home in Inglewood where he gets heaps of pats and cuddles with the residents.

Julie works primarily as a Legal Support to our property and rural teams which keeps her busy and engaged.

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For many years Julie was very involved in the sport of marching with many Taranaki and National titles being achieved by the teams she coached. Since retiring from the sport she now has more time for travel, reading, watching sport and has recently taken up knitting.

Stacey has worked in the industry for just under 20 years and qualified as a Legal Executive in 2005. She now provides legal support to the property team.

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Stacey is married with a step son and a young daughter. Her and her husband own an automotive workshop in Vogeltown and in their spare time they enjoy eating out at the local cafes/restaurants, getting outdoors and spending time with family and friends.