Dear all

Here is another piece of information to consider for our legal representation meeting tomorrow evening.

This was prompted by my asking my brother-in-law - who was a lawyer in Queenstown for the last 20+ years (retired about a year ago) mainly involved with conveyancing - about our situation. He suggested talking with Kiwibank regarding their thoughts of us using a sole-partner firm (as it turns out, from Anne's email it looks like Helen will be a partner with Anja at some stage soon making it a two-partner firm) for the remaining legal work. Stephen Edge's response is below.

Kind regards,

Susan


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Stephen Edge <Stephen.Edge@kiwibank.co.nz>
Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 9:31 AM
Subject: UCOL - legal work
To: Susan Jack (susanjjack@gmail.com) <susanjjack@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Long <Andrew.Long@kiwibank.co.nz>


Hi Susan,

 

I understand UCOL’s lawyer as moved to another smaller legal practice. In my experience larger multi-unit projects like UCOL require a team of experienced professional lawyers to manage the processes needed for multiple property settlements. When settlement time arrives for UCOL there will be a very large amount of legal work needing to be done in a very short period of time. A larger law firm will typically have the resources to draw upon to meet the time demands involved with multiple property settlements all occurring on the same day. To minimise the possibility of problems occurring at settlement time it would be my preference for a larger law firm to handle this work.

 

Regards

 

Stephen Edge

Senior Manager Property Finance

      

 

DDI 07 571 3846 | M 027 8395 057  | F 07 571 3845

 

www.kiwibank.co.nz 

Kiwibank Limited, Level 1, 41 The Strand, P O Box 13333, Tauranga 3110

 

 

 

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