# Our People - Hayden Laird - Legal Solutions 2012 Ltd

        

# Our People

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## Hayden Laird

 

#### Lawyer – Special Counsel

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hayden@legalsolutions.nz

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06 7683583

    

Qualifications:

 
- LLB(Hons)/BCom — University of Otago
- Admitted in NZ (2004) and England (2007) (Solicitor and Barrister)
- Qualified Corporate Governance Professional (Dist.inction — Governance NZ)

 

Experience:

 
- 2O years’ legal experience
- New Zealand and International
- Private practice and in-house counsel experience

 

Areas of specialisation:

 
- Corporate
- Commercial
- Business
- Contracts
- Disputes

 

Known for:

 
- Sensible, practical and commercially-focussed solutions

 

Example transaction experience:

 
- cross-border business acquisition (share purchase) including acquisition finance and legal due diligence
- equity partnerships (including limited partnerships and companies)
- sale and purchase of business (both share and asset sales)
- shareholder disputes and exits
- employee shareholder structures
- commercial contracting
- fintech start-u p structuring and regulatory advice
- capital raising
- refinancing
- business and family succession issues
- commercial dispute resolution

 

Outside work Hayden enjoys making the most of all Taranaki has to offer and keeping fit (running and swimming). He is a proud dad with a family of four girls (4th generation Taranakians)

  [Contact Hayden](mailto:hayden@legalsolutions.nz)