About Jack Porus:
As head of the Commercial Department, Jack has a role which extends well beyond providing the normal legal services expected of a lawyer. In the field of negotiation, he has developed a problem-solving technique to gain results which could not be achieved using the adversarial method generally employed by solicitors.
Jack has been Managing Partner of Glaister Ennor since 1980 and in 2005 he won New Zealand Law Award's Managing Partner of the Year. Currently he is joint Managing Partner with Stephanie Harris. Jack has played an integral part in developing Glaister Ennor to become a highly respected full commercial law firm.
Jack has been a member of the Institute of Directors since 1994 and a member at Rotary since 1998.
Transactional expertise
• Jack has developed specialist experience in the area of foreign purchase of New Zealand property. He has been responsible for acting as lead adviser in substantial takeovers and has acquired extensive experience in assisting public and private companies to negotiate significant commercial agreements.
• He has acquired specialist knowledge in forestry and mining industries. Since 1990, he has acted for Ernslaw One Limited, initially with the $104 million purchase of Conical Hill Sawmill and State Forests.
• In 1992, he advised on taking control of a major coal producing company on behalf of a client and was appointed a director of the company, MacDougall Mining Company Limited. In 1993, he was appointed Chairman.
• In 1995, Jack was lead adviser on the takeover of the New Zealand listed public company, Salmond Smith Biolab Limited. In 1996 he played a leading role in the rationalisation of the New Zealand salmon farming industry.
• Jack has developed specialist experience in the area of foreign purchase of New Zealand property. He has been responsible for acting as lead adviser in substantial takeovers and has acquired extensive experience in assisting public and private companies to negotiate significant commercial agreements.
• Recently Jack has been instrumental in negotiating one of the largest sales of privately owned land in New Zealand.
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