Company Law in New Zealand, 2nd edition

Neil Campbell QC is a barrister practising civil and commercial litigation. He was previously an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at The University of Auckland. His practice, teaching, and research has focused on land law, contract law, insurance law, and company law. His research on those subjects has been published in leading domestic and international texts.

Peter Watts QC, FRSNZ Peter Watts, Professor of Law, University of Auckland is an internationally respected researcher, teacher and practitioner in commercial law. His principal specialisms are in company law, agency law and the law of restitution. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Te Apārangi), one of only four lawyers to hold such a fellowship. Professor Watts attended the University of Canterbury before completing his masters at the University of Cambridge. Before joining the faculty at the University of Auckland in 1985, he had worked at Duncan Cotterill and at Chapman Tripp. He also practises as a barrister at Bankside Chambers in Auckland, and is a door tenant at Fountain Court Chambers, the Temple, London. As well as co-authoring Company Law in New Zealand, Professor Watts is the author of Directors’ Powers and Duties and General Editor of Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency.

Christopher Hare Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge and read for an LLM at Harvard Law School and the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at Brasenose College, Oxford. He practised as a barrister for several years at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn, specialising in banking and commercial law, before taking up a fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge and then spending seven years in New Zealand as Senior Lecturer in the Law Faculty, The University of Auckland. His research and teaching focus is on banking law, company and commercial law and the law of obligations generally. As well as co-authoring Company Law in New Zealand, he is the editor of Ellinger’s Modern Banking Law (OUP, 2011) and a contributor to Paget’s Law of Banking (LexisNexis, 2014).