Articles and updates

Thanks for all the great feedback and conversations following last month’s article. In that article I promised to cover recent developments in the innovation funding landscape. If we assume three things: The New Zealand early stage company/start-up environment has not delivered enough sustainable companies that are growing and have global commercial potential, The upcoming change […]

Gilligan Sheppard has always been known by its team for being caring, compassionate and treating team members as part of a family. This has been true for one of our ex team members who retired about six years ago. This team member would still visit every month or so to collect the stamps we had […]

Yi Ping, partner at GS, is a member of the Rotary Club of Auckland. Last week, they held a breakfast with key note speakers Sir John Key and Sir Ralph Norris, raising funds for the Auckland City Mission. I would love to repeat for you the laugh out loud stories that were shared and the […]

Eduardo Porter wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Loss of Dynamism is impeding Growth”. The premise of the article was that New Zealand, like others in the OECD, have not generated enough early stage companies and have not done enough to ensure they become mature or revenue generating companies. The article quotes […]

Audit Shield is an insurance which provides for the payment of professional fees incurred in the event you are selected for an audit, enquiry, investigation or review instigated by Inland Revenue (IR). The cost of being properly represented can be quite considerable depending on the circumstances. Even a simple enquiry can require hours of work. […]