Georgina Toomey

Practice Group Leader

Practice Areas

Business Structuring
Corporate and Commercial
Startups

Georgina is a Practice Group Leader at LegalVision, specialising in corporate and commercial law. She has significant experience having previously worked in the specialist corporate teams at a number of top tier firms in New Zealand, and acting for clients in a variety of industries.

Georgina has particular expertise in capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, business structuring and shareholding arrangements, and acts for startups, SMEs and corporate clients. Georgina also regularly advises on Companies Act, NZX and securities law compliance, as well as having experience advising on foreign investment into New Zealand and broader commercial law matters. Georgina works closely with other LegalVision practice areas to ensure her clients receive appropriate and specialist advice in regards to all key aspects of their business.

Outside the office, Georgina can be found enjoying New Zealand’s backcountry either mountain biking, trail running or skiing.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Auckland.

Professional memberships: Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association Inc, Institute of Directors New Zealand (MInstD).

Expertise

Business Sale and Purchase

Assisting clients when buying or selling their business, including undertaking due diligence.

Corporate and Commercial

Assisting businesses with general corporate needs, including setting up corporate structures, preparing shareholder agreements, and preparing and implementing employee share option plans.

Advising private companies on their New Zealand company and securities law compliance obligations.

Startups

Providing end-to-end guidance to both startups and investors on capital raising deals.

Client Reviews

The legal work provided by the team at LegalVision has been invaluable to Just Cuts. LegalVision’s balance between quality and efficiency is particularly impressive and integral to the success of our many franchised outlets. Their lawyers maintain a consistently high quality of service and their fixed-fee approach is a breath of fresh air.

Amber Turnbull, Just Cuts (COO)

LegalVision assisted with a number of legal docs and advice including negotiating with large corporates. They demonstrate pragmatism, experience and deep understanding of our business' risk profile, and has led to us counting LegalVision as an integral ingredient to the overall success of our business.

Anthony Bekker, ROKT (Head of Operations Strategy)

We have worked with LegalVision on our shareholders agreement, employee share scheme and a capital raise. Their fees are very reasonable compared to “name” firms and they have repeatedly gone the extra mile and demonstrate they know the startup space.

John Baini, TruePillars (Co-Founder & CEO)

LegalVision's lawyers are the team you want by your side when reviewing and negotiating contract terms. We’ve worked with LegalVision during our Friends & Family Round where they prepared our convertible notes, and during our seed round which we closed with excellent terms and well ahead of schedule.

Federico Collarte, Baraja Pty Ltd (Founder)

Meet Georgina Toomey