About Averill Dickson:
Averill has over 13 years' experience in technology, corporate and general commercial law.
Averill advises on business structuring, business sales and purchases, company constitutions and shareholder agreements, corporate governance and directors' duties, capital raising (including Securities Act issues), competition law issues, distribution/marketing and supply agreements, mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, statutory compliance, franchising and trademarks and, as head of the Glaister Ennor Technology Group, she has specialist expertise in the areas of acquisitions and sales of technology and technology-related services and on the establishment, operation, governance, funding, selling of and investment in technology businesses.
Averill joined Glaister Ennor after spending 3 years as Group Legal Counsel and Company Secretary for Endace Limited, the first New Zealand company to list on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. During her time with Endace Averill had responsibility for all legal and HR-related activities throughout Endace's global operations, and was also involved in the development and implementation of strategy as a member of the company's senior executive team. In addition, she was heavily involved both in preparing Endace for listing and in the listing process itself.
Prior to Endace, Averill established a specialist technology law firm, which had grown to a 3-partner practice by the time she left. She has also been a partner in the technology law team of mid-size Auckland practice and an associate with a boutique Auckland firm which practiced exclusively in technology law.
Averill has published and presented extensively on IT contracting, project management and internet law issues, and was a founding member and a past convenor of the Auckland District Law Society's Law and Technology Committee. Averill is also a Chartered Secretary, having completed the CSNZ qualifying scheme, which includes post-graduate level study in corporate governance, secretaryship, finance and administration.
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