Matt Lake Matt Lake

Matt Lake

Senior Solicitor
Christchurch

Corporate & commercial
Corporate governance
Mergers & acquisitions

Matt specialises in corporate and commercial law with a particular focus on mergers and acquisition, corporate governance and commercial contracting.

He advises clients across a wide range of industries on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint venture and supply arrangements and general commercial law featuring a number of bespoke commercial agreements. He has particular experience in the retirement village and aged care sectors, agribusiness in New Zealand and the private healthcare sector.

Recent highlights

  • Arvida Group on its NZ$1.243b scheme of arrangement with global infrastructure fund Stonepeak
  • Arvida on its divestment of retirement villages and aged care facilities, including its recent divestments of Strathallan village and St Allisa aged care facility
  • Ravensdown on constitutional matters, commercial arrangements and the divestment of its lime quarrying division
  • ANZCO Foods on a range of key commercial contracts
  • Hallenstein Glasson on corporate governance and other related matters, and
  • The NZ Retirement Villages Association on proposed law reform to retirement villages legislation and other applicable laws.

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Chapman Tripp advises ANZCO Foods on its acquisition of Greenlea Group

We are delighted to have advised ANZCO Foods on its $800m acquisition of Greenlea Group. This significant transaction brings together two established New Zealand red meat businesses with highly complementary geographic footprints, operations and capabilities, creating a larger, more resilient and more diversified business operating within New Zealand and globally.

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