Practice Areas

The firm has offices in Christchurch and Rangiora and accepts instructions in all areas of law. Our particular specialities within the firm comprise of:

Banking and Securities

Papprills can provide a wide range of banking and security advice including:

• Administering securities and security realisations
• Lending and security documentation
• Refinancing

Please contact:
Sandy Millyard or Tim Trollope

Commercial

Papprills’ commercial legal services include:

• Asset protection
• Business restructuring
• Business sales and purchases
• Business start up and structuring
• Finance, banking and security
• General business advice

Please contact:
Sandy Millyard or Tim Trollope

Commercial and Civil Litigation

Papprills has extensive experience in representing clients before the Courts in relation to a wide range of commercial and civil advice, including:

• Carriage of goods
• Commercial leases
• Contract disputes
• Debt collection
• Family protection claims and issues relating to claims against family estates
• Immigration
• Liquidation and bankruptcies
• Purchase of businesses
• Purchase of goods
• Purchase of properties
• Testamentary promise claims

Please contact:
Jeff McCall or Margaret Smyth

Coroner’s Court

Papprills has extensive experience representing clients before the Coroner’s Court, including in relation to inquests and commissions of enquiry.

Please contact:
Jeff McCall

Corporate

Papprills’ corporate law services include:

• Asset and share purchase/sales
• Company restructuring and organisation
• Corporate governance and directors duties
• Establishment of companies
• Finance, securities and capital raising
• Joint ventures
• Share issues
• Shareholder agreements and shareholder issues

Please contact:
Sandy Millyard or Tim Trollope

Criminal Litigation

Papprills has a wide range of experience in all criminal law matters. Papprills is a registered legal aid provider.

Please contact:
Jeff McCall or Margaret Smyth

Employment

Papprills’ employment team can advise on employment related matters, including:

• Collective bargaining
• Dispute resolution
• Employment and independent contract agreements
• Employment Relations Authority and Court representation
• Health and safety advice
• Human Rights
• Personal grievance resolution
• Privacy
• Restructuring and redundancy advice

Please contact:
Jeff McCall or Margaret Smyth

Entertainment

We want to compliment the creativity of those involved in the entertainment industry. The team at Papprills can provide creative solutions for you:

The journey to the first curtain call is both rewarding and challenging. The staging of live performances carries unique issues often requiring unique solutions. Our services include advice on and assistance with:

• Music commissioning
• Financing requirements
• Securing rights and rights management
• Contract negotiation and formation
• Performance agreements
• Sponsorship arrangements
• Commercial structures

Music

To have the skill and talent to compose and perform is one thing. But to navigate the intricacies of the music industry is another. Our services include advice on and assistance with:

• Contract negotiation and formation
• Recording, publishing and distribution contracts
• Copyright and performance rights
• Agency and management arrangements
• Modern technologies and music
• Sponsorship, merchandising and endorsement arrangements
• Collection organisations
• Self-publishing assistance

Please contact:
Tim Trollope, Nicola McNally or Jamie Ling

Family

The team at Papprills treat all matters with confidence and services include:

• Child care arrangements
• De facto property settlements
• Prenuptial property agreements
• Relationship property settlements

Please contact:
Jeff McCall or Margaret Smyth

Franchising

Papprills’ services include:

• Assistance with dispute resolution and litigation
• Business structures and ownership relationships
• Financing
• Franchise agreements (including master franchising)

Please contact:
Sandy Millyard or Tim Trollope

Medico Legal Law

Papprills has extensive experience in:

• Business structures
• General advice of Medico legal issues
• Health funding requirements
• Succession planning for health practitioners

Please contact:
Tim Trollope or Jeff McCall

Property

Papprills has extensive experience in all issues of property related law and legal services include:

• Financing and refinancing
• General conveyancing
• Joint venture agreements
• Leasing
• Rural acquisitions and dispositions
• Rural joint venture restructuring
• Rural succession planning
• Sale, purchase and lease back arrangements
• Subdivisions

Please contact:
Sandy Millyard or Tim Trollope

Succession Planning and Asset Protection

Papprills’ services include:

• Enduring powers of attorney
• Formation and management of trusts
• Implementation of gifting programmes
• Succession planning for transfer of assets in family context and also succession planning for families and businesses
• Wills

Please contact:
Sandy Millyard or Tim Trollope

Trust and Estate Administration

Papprills’ services include:

• Distribution of assets
• Estate administration
• Ongoing administration of trusts and estates
• Probate application and administration

Please contact:
Sandy Millyard or Tim Trollope

Sports Law

Papprills has experience in all aspects of sports law including:

• Representation of players, clubs and unions of disciplinary hearings and appeals
• Negotiation and drafting of sponsorship agreements

Please contact:
Jeff McCall or Tim Trollope

Intellectual Property

In today’s digital and information age, maximising the potential of your key intellectual property assets in your business will give you an edge over your competitors.

Papprills can assist and advise you with:

• Identifying your key intellectual property assets including important brand names, business methods and information, copyright material, designs and inventions
• Protecting and enforcing your intellectual property rights including copyright, trade mark registration, design registration, confidentiality agreements, restraints of trade
• The commercialisation of your intellectual property such as licensing, franchising and research and development agreements

Please contact:
Nicola McNally

Recognising the very real need to provide legal services to those involved in the entertainment industry Papprills is proud to launch its entertainment law service. A service already welcomed by local entertainers.