Our experts

The New Zealand firm has established a dedicated full time team who specialise in the area of Transaction Services. The expertise within the team covers a wide range of specialisations, both from a product and industry standpoint.

Partners

		Colum Rice Transaction Services NZ Leader Due Diligence and Transition and Integration Services Tel: +64 9 355 8094 Fax: +64 9 355 8315 E.mail: colum.rice@nz.pwc.com
Throughout his career, Colum has worked predominantly with acquisitions, disposals and capital market transactions, including some of the most high profile domestic IPOs for New Zealand companies in addition to working with New Zealand companies raising capital overseas. Colum has worked on many of the leading private equity deals in New Zealand in addition to leading projects on numerous international and domestic corporate transactions including recent deals in both India and China.

		Leo Foliaki Partner Due Diligence Phone: +64 9 355 8178 Fax: +64 9 355 8026 E.mail: leo.foliaki@nz.pwc.com
Leo is a Transaction Services Partner and Assurance Leader for NZ, who specialises in due diligence for acquisitions, disposals and initial public offerings. He has advised on a large number of deals across a range of industries primarily in New Zealand and Australia.

		Ian McLoughlin Partner Due Diligence Phone: +64 9 355 8167 Fax: +64 9 355 8315 E.mail: ian.mcloughlin@nz.pwc.com
Ian has provided a wide range of transaction services including financial due diligence (both buy and sell side), acquisition accounting, IPO listings, review of forecasts and projections and cross-border investigations.

		Peter Boyce Partner Taxation and M&A Services Leader Phone: +64 9 355 8547 Fax: +64 9 355 8015 E.mail: peter.boyce@nz.pwc.com
Peter is the leader of the M&A taxation group within the New Zealand Firm, and specialises in due diligences and tax structuring for acquisitions, disposals, IPOs and other corporate restructures. He has advised on a wide range of transactions and industries.

		Mike Morgan Partner Taxation and M&A Services Phone: +64 9 355 8708 Fax: +64 9 355 8015 E.mail: mike.j.morgan@nz.pwc.com
Mike is a partner in our mergers and acquisitions tax group, specialising in tax due diligence and structuring for both corporate and private equity clients. Mike has extensive deal experience having worked in tax M&A, both in the UK and NZ, over the last seven years.


Directors

		Russell Windsor Director Due Diligence Phone: +64 9 355 8658 Fax: +64 9 355 8315 E.mail: russell.l.windsor@nz.pwc.com
Russell is a Director with over five years transaction service experience including two years spent in London where Russell completed a number of transactions in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. These transactions ranged from buy side deals for private equity firms and corporates, re-financing, IPO listings and a number of Vendor due diligence assignments. Since returning to New Zealand Russell has been responsible for the development of the local vendor due diligence product and lead a number of large transactions.

		Gary Collier Director Operational Due Diligence \| Transition and Integration Services Phone: +64 9 355 8329 Fax : +64 9 355 8282 E.mail: gary.d.collier@nz.pwc.com
Gary has worked across the Supply Chain for major organisations for the past 15 years. He has held senior operational roles with Games Workshop, the Co-op, Sainsbury's in the UK, Coles Myer in Australia as well as senior consultancy roles at Fujitsu in the UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers in New Zealand specialising in the review, restructure and rationalisation of Supply functions from point of source to point of utilisation.