Merit
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Our practice areas
Six practices held by one bench of six advocates — which is why a matter that turns out to be two matters does not become two firms.
Talk to a partnerWhat we do
Six practices, one bench
Most of our work sits where two of these meet — a shareholder dispute that is really a family matter, a land title that decides a financing. Coming in through one door does not mean staying behind it.
Corporate & Commercial
Incorporations, joint ventures, shareholder agreements and the day-to-day counsel a growing company needs on hand.
Learn moreLitigation & Arbitration
Commercial disputes argued in the High Court and before arbitral tribunals, from first demand letter to enforcement.
Learn moreProperty & Conveyancing
Title searches, leases, land litigation and conveyancing that closes without a surprise at the Lands Commission.
Learn moreFamily & Succession
Wills, probate, estate administration and matrimonial matters handled quietly and with the family kept informed.
Learn moreEmployment & Labour
Contracts, handbooks, redundancies and hearings — the paperwork that keeps a workforce dispute from becoming a case.
Learn moreEnergy & Natural Resources
Licensing, local content, host-community agreements and regulatory work across power, mining and petroleum.
Learn moreHow it runs
From first call to closed file
Step 01
The first conversation
Thirty minutes, no charge and no pitch. You describe what you are facing; we tell you whether we can help, roughly what it would take, and whether somebody else would serve you better.
Step 02
A scope in writing
What we will do, who does it, what it costs and what a realistic outcome looks like — including the outcome you would rather not read about. Nothing starts until you have signed it.
Step 03
The work, with the door open
Every filing, letter and hearing note reaches you the same week, each with a plain-language paragraph on top. You will never learn what happened in your matter from somebody else.
Step 04
Closing, and what comes after
A closing memo with the outcome, the documents you now hold and the dates you have to keep. Six months later we check in — free — that whatever we built is still standing.
Success stories
Our case studies
Matters we are allowed to talk about, written the way we would explain them to you across the table.
Suit to settlement in nine weeks
A supplier sued for the whole contract value. We narrowed the claim to the two disputed invoices and settled on terms the client could carry.
Learn moreLitigation
A group restructured, clean
Four companies, three regulators and a shareholder who wanted out. We rebuilt the group as one holding structure without a single filing rejected.
Learn moreCorporate
Testimonials
Client experiences
Merit took over a matter two other firms had already been through, read four years of correspondence in a week, and told us plainly which parts of our position would not survive. We settled a month later on better terms than we had been chasing.
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