Trusts, Asset Protection and Estate Planning

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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Heather Elmsly

Heather is a legal executive in our Estates team. Heather joined Holland Beckett in 2007 and subsequently completed her Legal Executive Diploma in 2008. Heather spent much of that time in Luke Stewart’s property and commercial team, before moving into the Estates team in 2024. Heather is an experienced legal executive with specialist knowledge of: …

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Krystal Proctor

Krystal grew up in Nelson where she began her career working at a local law firm for four years. Krystal joined Holland Beckett as a legal executive in May 2008 and now has more than 13 years’ experience assisting clients with residential and commercial conveyancing, estate planning and asset protection matters. Outside of work, Krystal …

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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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Diane Flynn

Diane joined the Property Team at Holland Beckett in 2015 and enjoys assisting clients in various areas including Residential and Commercial Conveyancing, Subdivisions, Unit Titles, Retirement Villages, Wills and Trusts. Diane grew up in Tauranga and has worked in the legal industry for 20 years. Outside of work Diane enjoys golf, travelling and spending time …

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Jo-Anne Savage

Jo-Anne is the Estates Manager of Holland Beckett’s Estates Team. She joined Holland Beckett in April 1989 and has specialised in estate administration for over 30 years. Jo-Anne can assist clients with estate planning (including preparing Wills and enduring powers of attorney) and estate administration. Jo-Anne has the experience and expertise to administer even the …

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Giorgia Robertson

Giorgia is a Solicitor in our Tauranga office having joined Holland Beckett in 2017. Giorgia, who was raised in Tauranga, began her career and gained experience working as a legal secretary specialising in residential conveyancing, assisting first-home buyers, trust and estate planning matters, commercial/financing transactions and business sales and purchases, whilst also completing her law …

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Jayden McNeil

Jayden is a solicitor in the property and commercial team in our Whakatāne office. Jayden was born and raised in Whakatāne, and joined Holland Beckett in August 2022 after finishing his law degree at the University of Waikato. Since returning home he has been exposed to a very broad variety of work and values the …

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Sarah Burns

Sarah is a Solicitor in Hilary Anderson’s property and commercial team. Sarah has been employed with Holland Beckett since 2015.  She began her journey with the firm as a legal secretary and shortly after completed her Legal Executive Diploma. Sarah then progressed and completed her law degree at the University of Waikato in 2021 whilst …

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Jacqueline Bell

Jacqueline is a member of both the family and litigation team at Holland Beckett. Jacqueline specialises in relationship property, trusts, wills and estate litigation. She appears for clients both in Court and in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes including mediations. She also supports the trust and estates team with complex asset and succession planning matters. …

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