Rotorua

Charlene Porteous-Watt

Charlene is a registered legal executive in the Rotorua office providing assistance to Terry Kirkham and Natasha van der Wal on conveyancing transactions, trust matters and estate planning. Charlene joined Holland Beckett in 2014 as an administration assistant before becoming a legal secretary in the property team. She then went on to study and obtained …

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Tracy Wickett

Tracy has worked within the legal industry for the past 12 years in Rotorua, Auckland and Australia and obtained her Legal Executive Diploma in 2010. Tracy works in Holland Beckett’s Rotorua office in the Commercial/Property Team, predominately involved in conveyancing transactions. In her spare time Tracy enjoys dancing, mountain biking and spending time with her …

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Jo Aitken

Jo Aitken initially joined Holland Beckett Maltby (as it was then) in 2005, left to work overseas in 2008 and returned to Holland Beckett in 2021. Jo was born in England but predominantly raised in the Bay of Plenty. She has worked in law for over 25 years and mainly deals with residential and commercial …

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Kathy Julian-Ward

Kathy specialises in residential and commercial conveyancing together with subdivisions and asset protection. From Holland Beckett’s Rotorua office, she also deals with all estate administration matters for the office and is enjoying progressing matters for families with the minimum of stress to them. Kathy has 43 years’ experience in a wide variety of the law …

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Lucy Vala-Blackmore

Lucy is a senior solicitor working in Holland Beckett’s family team. She is based in our Rotorua office. Lucy grew up in Rotorua before moving to Hamilton to complete her Bachelor of Laws at the University of Waikato. Lucy returned to Rotorua and gained experience with Holland Beckett Law as a summer clerk. Lucy specialises …

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Melissa Chester

Melissa is an associate working in Holland Beckett’s litigation team, based in our Rotorua office. In 2015 Melissa completed a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and French at Massey University Wellington. In 2018 she completed her Bachelor of Laws at University of Canterbury. She moved to Rotorua in 2018 to join Holland Beckett and was …

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Natasha van der Wal

Natasha van der Wal is a Partner at Holland Beckett and leads our Rotorua commercial and property team. Natasha works closely with individuals, corporate entities, local governments, Māori land-owning entities and post settlement governance entities. She provides advice on a range of legal issues working in property, commercial and asset planning including projects involving subdivisions …

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Terry Kirkham

Terry works in the land and commercial law areas. He joined Holland Beckett in 2019, and is based in Rotorua and Taupo. Prior to joining Holland Beckett he practised in Taupo for 10 years. Terry’s work includes rural property and businesses, trusts, commercial and family property, tax, and business and family succession. He applies a …

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James McDougall

James is a Partner at Holland Beckett and leads our Rotorua litigation team. He is an experienced litigator advising clients on a broad range of contentious issues. James regularly appears in Court and various tribunals, and has a particular skill identifying and bringing appropriate cases to early resolution, or otherwise ensuring they are determined by …

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