Nick Wells

Nick Wells is a Corporate Partner at Chapman Tripp, specialising in private equity, corporate structuring and investment. His focus on the Advisory Committee will be on procedural and legal matters.

Nick was the independent expert to the Parliamentary Select Committee in relation to New Zealand’s limited partnerships regime, which has been adopted as the vehicle used by most private equity funds in New Zealand.

As an advisor to a number of clients in relation to acquisitions, disposals, governance and structuring issues, Nick has acted for various funds and investors in New Zealand and Australia.

Nick is an honorary lecturer at the University of Auckland and teaches two papers; one around Limited Partnerships and Mergers and Acquisitions, and the other on Iwi Governance.

He wrote the New Zealand text on limited partnerships for Lexis Nexis and contributes to the Laws of New Zealand (also published by Lexis Nexis). Nick sits on the Council of the New Zealand Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and the Treaty Team of Ngati Whatua o Orakei. Nick completed his law and commerce degrees at Canterbury University, proceeded to complete his finance and accounting bachelors degree with honours at Victoria and then an MBA with honours at the IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2005.

Nick was formerly a partner at Gilbert + Tobin in Australia, and is one of New Zealand’s leading exponents on private equity fund structures.