Matt is a specialist employment lawyer with extensive experience in New Zealand and the UK advising employers and employees on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues.
Matt’s expertise includes contractual disputes, redundancy and restructuring, restrictive covenants, senior executive issues and complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims. He also has experience in supporting the employment aspects of M&A transactions and supporting employers with contractor disputes and Holidays Act compliance.
Matt is also an experienced litigator, with experience representing clients in a wide range of disputes in mediation, the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court, the senior courts in New Zealand as well as the UK Employment Tribunal.
In addition, Matt advises human resources teams on day-to-day matters such as disciplinary, performance and medical capability processes and data protection and privacy matters. He is also an experienced independent investigator.
Matt is regular presenter at conferences and webinars on employment law and is a member of the NZLS Wellington Employment Law Committee.