Property Law

Rachel Withington

Rachel is an Associate in our Property and Commercial team. Rachel completed a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Management Studies majoring in Economics at the University of Waikato in 2013. Rachel was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court in October 2014. Rachel is experienced in working with private clients and …

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Sarah Lawson

Sarah joined the firm as a Senior Solicitor in 2024 working in our commercial property team. With over a decade of legal experience both in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, Sarah is equipped with an extensive background in private client and trust law matters, particularly in residential and commercial conveyancing, trust, and estate planning. …

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Lucy McDougall

Lucy grew up in the Wairarapa and began her legal career in Auckland before spending several years at a London Magic Circle firm. In late 2017 Lucy moved to Tauranga and worked for another local firm before joining Holland Beckett in February 2024. Today Lucy advises clients on a range of matters including commercial and …

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Brittany Nicholson

Brittany is a Registered Legal Executive in the property and commercial team in our Whakatāne office, working with Dan Broadhurst. Brittany was introduced to the legal profession in 2017 starting out as a litigation assistant. She made the transition over to conveyancing and went on to complete her Diploma in Legal Executive Studies in 2020. …

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Meg Skilton

Meg joined Holland Beckett in November 2023 and has taken an interest in commercial matters, specifically business sale and purchase and commercial transactions. She is looking forward to continuing her career in the commercial property team working for John Mackay. Outside of work Meg enjoys both playing and watching sport, spending time with friends and …

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Victoria Thompson

Victoria first joined Holland Beckett in 2019 as receptionist in the Rotorua office before moving into the property/commercial team as a legal secretary. Victoria has recently completed her Legal Executive Diploma and is currently studying towards her LLB. She works alongside Natasha van der Wal assisting with residential conveyancing, commercial transactions, trust matters and estate …

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Saunoa Pau

Saunoa is currently on parental leave. Saunoa joined Luke Stewart’s property and commercial team in our Tauranga branch in November 2018 after studying the New Zealand Diploma in Legal Executive Studies (Level 6), full-time and online, through Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. Saunoa is originally from Central Otago and made her way up to Tauranga …

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Lauren Paterson

Lauren was born and bred in Tauranga and joined Holland Beckett in 2015 as an administration assistant before becoming a legal secretary in the property team. Lauren has since completed her NZ Legal Executive qualification 2019 and now works as a registered legal executive specialising in residential and commercial conveyancing as well as assisting the …

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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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Andrea Haycock

Andrea joined our Whakātane Property team in 2022 and handles both residential and commercial property sales, purchases and leasing. Andrea has worked in the legal industry for 10 years and obtained her Diploma in Legal Executive Studies in 2019. She is now studying the Diploma in Conveyancing. Andrea is an Affiliate Member of the New …

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