Macquarie Group (Macquarie) is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Macquarie’s main business focus is making returns by providing a diversified range of services to clients. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world.

Macquarie Group Limited is listed in Australia (ASX:MQG) and is regulated by APRA, the Australian banking regulator, as the owner of Macquarie Bank Limited, an authorised deposit taker. Macquarie also owns a bank in the UK, Macquarie Bank International, which is regulated by the FSA. Macquarie's activities are also subject to scrutiny by other regulatory agencies around the world.As an owner and manager of significant community assets, Macquarie works closely with governments around the world to deliver important services including transport, roads, airports and utilities. Specialist funds which manage these assets contributed approximately 11 per cent of Macquarie’s total operating income, post provisions, for the six months to 30 September 2008.

Macquarie’s approach to risk management is long-standing. Strong risk management practices are embedded in business unit management with central oversight of credit, market, funding, compliance and operational risk. These, together with committed, quality staff are key drivers of Macquarie’s success.
Founded in 1969, Macquarie operates in more than 60 office locations in 27 countries. Macquarie employed approximately 12,800 people at 31 January 2009 and had assets under management of $A242 billion at 31 December 2008.

For more information contact:

Duncan Olde
Division Director
Macquarie Capital (NZ) Limited
Level 17, Lumley Centre
88 Shortland Street
Auckland, New Zealand
P O Box 2006, Shortland Street
Auckland 1140, NZ

E:Duncan.Olde@macquarie.com
P: +649 363 1413
W: www.macquarie.com

Russell McVeagh is a leading New Zealand law firm with particular strengths in capital markets, derivatives and structured transactions.  Our capital markets team this month won the New Zealand deal team of the year at the Australian Legal Business Awards, recognising our prominent role in the past year's equity recapitalisations, hybrid and corporate bond transactions.

This year, the Finance Team has been augmented with the return of Matt Kersey, who had developed one of Australia's leading restructuring and insolvency practices.

Our team has helped engineer many firsts in the New Zealand market, including the development of the Kauri Bond market from nothing into New Zealand's second largest debt market, the first listed debt issue by a State-Owned Enterprise, the first Maple Bond issue by a New Zealand issuer, the first retail Kauri Bond, the first commodity linked listed debt security, and significant listed retail Tier 1 issues by European banks.

We are passionate about developing the capital markets and are always happy to talk to those seeking to come up with innovative solutions or to navigate the rapidly-changing regulatory environment.

For more information please contact:
Ross Pennington
Partner
Russell McVeagh
DDI 64 9 367 8304
E: ross.pennington@russellmcveagh.com
Visit: www.russellmcveagh.com
Auckland  I Wellington

Waitakere has grown at a rate that has outstripped major cities throughout the country and as such one of Waitakere City Council’s priorities has been to develop the city’s infrastructure.  

Councils within the greater Auckland Region have agreed on a metropolitan urban form contained within specific geographical limits and structured around a strong CBD and regional and town centres connected by transport corridors and a world-class rapid transit system. 

Waitakere City Council has a passionate view that infrastructure is a sound foundation for economic growth. Local government Waitakere-style is very certain about the sound economic leverage generated from infrastructure investments and the council has sought to use that leverage wisely in partnership with long term developers.  Chief Executive Vijaya Vaidyanath support the Council’s view that economic and commercial gain can be achieved with a clear logic for intervening between public and private capital in large scale developments. 

The relationship between large scale land developments and local government is one of interdependence because economic policy outcomes are affected and delivered at scale, and because infrastructural investment is affected in a similar scale. The bigger the development, the bigger the spatial intervention, the bigger the policy outcomes at stake for Aucklanders.

Waitakere is a City with great opportunities in brown and greenfield development. It’s Council is supportive of sustainable growth and has invested in projects and infrastructure to deliver this. Although Waitakere remains a regulator, it also takes a partnership approach with developers with intersecting goals and aspirations. NZCID Conference 2009 attendees will present the results of some of those partnerships.

For more information please visit us at:  http://www.waitakere.govt.nz

Bell Gully is the full-service commercial law firm of choice for New Zealand and international clients. The firm’s infrastructure and projects group draws together leading specialists who provide advice on all aspects of planning, documenting, project managing and implementing major infrastructure projects.

Within the group are lawyers with the legal skills and experience to advise on commercial and contractual issues around major projects, construction, resource management/planning and project financing, as well as a range of specialists in areas such as tax, Maori services, climate change/emissions trading, outsourcing and litigation.

They have New Zealand and international experience delivering projects across a range of industry sectors.

For more information please contact:
Garry Downs
Partner
Email: garry.downs@bellgully.com

Chris Gordon
Partner
Email: chris.gordon@bellgully.com

For more information about Bell Gully’s infrastructure and projects expertise, please visit : http://www.bellgully.com/

 

The Fletcher Construction Company is the pre-eminent general contractor in New Zealand and the South Pacific. It has unrivalled depth and breadth of experience across all facets of the construction industry.
Since 1909 Fletcher has established a track-record that underpins the goal of being the construction company of choice for customers, sub-contractors and employees. Ongoing loyalty is built and maintained.
Owner Fletcher Building Ltd is a major player in the Australasian building industry. Companies in the group have substantial market-share positions across all of the building materials manufacturing and distribution sectors.
Fletcher Building employs more than 11,000 people in a wide range of businesses located in New Zealand, the South Pacific, North America, South America and Australia.
The Fletcher Construction Company has:
•    a Building and Interiors division that operates nationally;
•    a South Pacific division with offices throughout the region; and
•    an Engineering division that operates both nationally and in joint-venture with the South Pacific division.

For more information please visit : www.fletcherconstruction.co.nz

Mayne Wetherell is a specialist finance and corporate law firm.  Its focus is on servicing the finance, corporate and commercial legal requirements of local and international clients, offering New Zealand law transactional and advisory services from its offices in Auckland and Sydney.  Mayne Wetherell's aim is to achieve successful completion of transactions for clients in the most efficient and timely manner by bringing to bear a deep understanding of the commercial drivers in complex transactions and an in-depth knowledge of financial structuring and the finance market.

Mayne Wetherell has some of New Zealand's most experienced projects and project finance lawyers operating out of New Zealand's dominant finance firm, with particular expertise advising both sponsors and financiers on the structuring and financing of major infrastructure projects in New Zealand and overseas.

For more information contact:
Michael Harrod
Partner
Phone +64 9 921 6004
Email:  michael.harrod@maynewetherell.com
Address:  PO Box 3797, Shortland Street, Auckland

Offices
Level 23, 151 Queen Street
P O Box 3797
Auckland
Phone 64 9 921 6000
Facsimile 64 9 921 6001

Level 29, Chifley Tower
2 Chifley Square
Sydney
Phone 61 2 9293 2877
Facsimile 61 2 9293 2879

For further information please visit : www.maynewetherell.com

WT Partnership Infrastructure was formed as a separate division of WT Partnership one of the Worlds largest international cost consultancy practices in April 2006 for the purpose of specialising in the provision of high quality cost planning and cost management services solely for infrastructure projects throughout New Zealand and in order to meet the growing needs of sophisticated infrastructure Clients for more accurate cost estimates and a higher standard of cost management.
Our personnel are specialists in the Civil Engineering field having worked solely in the Infrastructure environment for both Clients and Contractors. This experience gives our teams a unique set of skills to identify risks and expand on varying levels of engineering designs to produce an estimate of outturn costs that takes into account the specialist nature of risks associated with Civil Engineering Projects.

This extensive Pre Contract knowledge is then utilised to offer procurement advice, prepare suitable tender documents, evaluate tenders, negotiate awards and manage costs effectively throughout the life of a Project.

Amongst its team WT Partnership Infrastructure has considerable international and New Zealand based expertise in all sectors of the Civil Engineering Industry including:-

• Road
• Rail
• Clean Water
• Waste Water
• Marine
• Power
• Tunnelling
• Industrial and Residential Subdivisions
• Parks and Streetscapes
• Risk Management

For further information please visit www.wtpartnership.com

InfraTrain New Zealand is the Industry Training Organisation for the civil infrastructure industry and has a great deal of experience working with companies to develop the wide range of skills needed to build and maintain his country’s civil infrastructure.

A competent, skilled, and productive workforce is a key part in ensuring the industry can deliver quality infrastructure and value for money.

InfraTrain provides recognition of industry skills and knowledge with a range of national qualifications. These qualifications can provide Government and Councils with an assurance that contractors working on public assets have skills and knowledge which meet a national standard and follow industry best practice, as well as meeting relevant Health, Safety and Environment compliances.

InfraTrain’s national qualifications cover Civil Construction and Maintenance, Roading & Pavement Surfacing, Roadmarking, Utilities & Subdivisions, Demolition, Agricultural Contracting & Agrichemical Application, Civil Engineering, Surveying, Infrastructure Asset Management and Management.

For more information contact:

John Wills
Chief Executive
InfraTrain New Zealand
Tel +64-4941880
Mob:021 476 793

 

AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental and energy.  We apply the expertise and commitment of our engineers, architects, business advisors, planners, economists, scientists and managers to ensure our performance is industry leading.

AECOM has been operating in New Zealand for 90 years and has some 400 staff spread across five major offices: Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch. A Fortune 500 company, AECOM serves clients in more than 100 countries and had revenue of $5.9 billion during the 12-month period ended March 31, 2008.

AECOM Business Rankings:

Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms Sourcebook 2008

• 1st in Transportation

• 1st in General Building

• 3rd overall

More information on AECOM and its services please visit www.aecom.com

Contact:

Mr.Richard Garrett,
Marketing Manager NZ
Ph: 09 336 0136
Email: richard.garrett@aecom.com
Address: PO Box 4241, Shortland Street,
Auckland 1140