We are specialists in corporate and commercial litigation. Our team has considerable expertise in handling a wide range of complex commercial matters and disputes, including corporate and securities claims, class actions and regulatory proceedings.

We have handled some of the largest, most complex matters for a range of recognised organisations and insurers and are highly skilled at working with corporate clients and their in-house legal teams to provide legal and commercial strategic advice, before and during litigation.

We act for corporate entities, including financial institutions and insurers as well as individuals, including directors, officers, shareholders and creditors. We also have significant experience in acting for others - from lawyers, accountants, professional trustees, architects, engineers and real estate agents - who are facing disciplinary or professional complaints through to large formal claims (both in court and alternative dispute resolution forums) which have arisen from corporate collapses.

If you need advice on managing a legal issue or require assistance in avoiding or resolving disputes, Fee Langstone offers pragmatic, sound advice to achieve legally effective outcomes.

We can help you with:

Securities Actions
Directors’ & Officers’
Insolvency and Debt Recovery
Acting for insolvency practitioners
Shareholder Disputes
Terms of trade (domestic and international)
International sale, purchase, and carriage of goods

Our work highlights

Acting for Ernst & Young in High Court proceedings brought by the Fuji Xerox companies against former directors of Fuji Xerox and Ernst & Young as its auditors, with alleged losses exceeding $250 million.
Acting for a defendant in the Feltex shareholder class action High Court trial. Subsequently acting on the successful appeals to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court (Houghton v Saunders [2014] NZHC 2229, [2015] 2 NZLR 74; Houghton v Saunders [2016] NZCA 493, [2017] 2 NZLR 189; Houghton v Saunders [2018] NZSC 74).

Acting in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court hearings in relation to champerty/maintenance and litigation funding issues (Walker v Forbes [2015] NZHC 1730, (2015) 22 PRNZ 660; PricewaterhouseCoopers v Walker [2017] NZSC 151).

Acting for an investor in finance company, FE Investments Limited, and recovering a substantial portion of its investment and interest after it became evident that the company was in serious financial difficulty and was being mismanaged before collapsing.
Acting for the D&O insurers of directors of a large construction group in relation to several claims against the directors arising from the collapse of the group and the liquidation of a number of entities within the group. The liquidators allege that the directors are liable for losses over $80 million.