Qualifications
LLB and BA, Victoria University of Wellington
Admitted
2018, New Zealand
Autumn McNeill is a member of our Christchurch Corporate & Commercial team, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracting, and corporate governance.
She advises a broad range of public and private sector clients across various industries on corporate and commercial matters, including joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, securities law, and contracting arrangements.
Before joining Chapman Tripp, Autumn was part of the corporate advisory team at another large New Zealand law firm in Auckland, where she specialised in domestic and international cor
porate transactions across multiple sectors. She also gained international experience working in the corporate team of a national law firm in Edinburgh before returning to New Zealand in 2020.
Autumn is from Tapuika.
Recent highlights
- Assisting Pioneer Capital on its acquisition of Coffee Supreme.
- Assisting Milford Private Equity on its investment into Blackbull Global.
- Assisting Stora Enso Oyj on its investment into CarbonScape.
- Assisting Pioneer Capital, Ngāi Tahu Capital and Tainui Group Holdings on the sale of Waikato Milking Systems to Interpump Group S.p.A.
- Assisting the SolarGen joint venture (Genesis Energy and FRV) on the acquisition of a fully consented, 52 MW, solar project in Canterbury, New Zealand.