At the time of writing this article, we’re about to go back into Level 3 lockdown in Auckland. As much as I hope it’s the last time, there’s every chance that this will become a recurring situation. So when it’s all shut, and the only businesses doing well are the essential services, what can you […]

Gilligan Sheppard participated in an AGN staff exchange program. We hosted Dexit from Adams & Miles in Canada for three months. Then we sent Kurt to them in February this year. This is how it worked out… Heading off to Toronto on the 28th of January, looking forward to all the excitement and adventure of […]

Bruce Sheppard, CEO of Gilligan Sheppard and Damien Grant, Principal of Waterstone Insolvency, who have both featured in recent articles on the wage subsidy, hash out their points of view. Who’s side do you agree with most?

Coronavirus has had a huge impact worldwide on us as individuals, a society, a workforce, etc. It’s hard to predict now when this crisis will end, despite many countries starting to lift restrictions. Some business activities will return to normal, however there will be some irreversible changes that become our new norm. One such change, […]

Addressing the need to be considerate during this time, our guests tackle a topic that should be foremost in our thinking… Guest panelists are psychologist Evana Lithgow from ‘Working Minds’ and employment lawyer Tess von Dadelszen from ‘Langton Hudson Butcher’ facilitated by Richard Ashby…

This article is a written collaboration by Bruce, Joshna and Humphrey in our Valued Added Services team. For any advice on this topic or anything covered in this article, please phone 0800 339 901. Let us go back to basics. What is my value? Fundamentally the value of every asset is the present value of […]

The tyranny we have been subjected to as a nation has likely blinded us to the long term negative economic and health consequences. The tax base has been well and truly rooted and will take a decade to recover fully. So much so, we need to ignore that ambition of getting back to pre-Covid levels. […]

The last six weeks have been for most of us a learning curve. Managing to work from home and trying to maintain a healthy work and life balance can be tough. The struggle to maintain a high level of output, whilst without the normal conveniences of the office environment is something I am sure we […]

COVID-19 – do you know that we weren’t even using this word a few months ago, now we use it almost daily!! As a GS team member and part of the GS leadership team we were able to move quickly to alert level 3 and then 4 when it was first announced. This is because […]

Richard Ashby, joined by Bruce Sheppard, interviews our guest Kalev Crossland from Shieff Angland law firm about commercial matters and insolvency during this Covid-19 situation.