Financial Markets Conduct Regulation, 2nd edition

Victoria Stace LLB (Hons) (VUW), LLM (Cambridge) is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Before becoming an academic, she worked for many years as a lawyer in private practice with Chapman Tripp (Wellington), specialising in financial services. Since 2015, she has been a full-time academic at Victoria University, teaching various subjects, including company, commercial and financial markets law. She researches in the area of financial consumer protection and has published regularly in New Zealand and Australia, in particular on issues related to consumer credit.

Trish Keeper LLB (Otago), LLM (VUW) is an associate professor at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. She lectures and researches in the areas of corporate law, personal and corporate insolvency and securities market regulation. Trish has presented for the New Zealand Law Society and currently contributes to LexisNexis’s Morison’s Company and Securities Law commentary. She has published in New Zealand and international journals.

Thomas Gibbons BSocSc, LLB(Hons), LLM (Waikato), MRP (Massey) is principal of Thomas Gibbons Law. He previously taught securities law in the LLB and MBA programmes at the University of Waikato. Thomas is also a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published in a range of journals in New Zealand and overseas, including the Company and Securities Law Bulletin, New Zealand Law Journal, Property Law Review and International Journal of Law in the Built Environment.

Chris Holland BCA, LLM (Hons) (VUW) is a payments specialist with Visa’s consulting branch, embedded with the Bank of New Zealand. He has an extensive background in financial services law, both in-house and in private practice in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Da Lin JD (Harvard), SM (Harvard), AB (Harvard) is a senior lecturer at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches and researches in corporate governance, company law and financial regulation. Prior to joining Victoria University’s Law Faculty, Da was an associate professor at the University of Richmond School of Law and a Climenko Fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School.

Nicole MacFarlane BA, LLB(Hons) (VUW) is a senior lawyer at Suncorp New Zealand. Nicole has undertaken a number of specialist in-house legal roles, including as a lawyer at Juno Legal, predominantly in the financial services sector. Nicole was previously a special counsel in DLA Piper’s national financial services team and a commercial litigator with Chapman Tripp. Nicole has advised a range of clients on compliance with the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013, including managers of managed investment schemes, derivatives and equity issuers, issuers of debt securities (including NBDTs), supervisors, financial advice providers and financial institutions on conduct licensing.

Nathanael Starrenburg LLB (Hons), BCom (Auckland) is director of Harmos Horton Lusk Limited, a specialist corporate and transactional law firm based in Auckland. He has been a corporate lawyer for 23 years and has particular expertise in public and private mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets transactions and strategic governance advice. Nathanael has been a member of the Takeovers Panel since 2016.