JULIET MOSES
Partner
LLB (Hons), BCom (Auckland)

Direct phone +64 9 920 8680
Mobile +64 21 944 628
Email juliet.moses@tgtlegal.com
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
  • Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand : 1996
  • Member: International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers' Association
  • Member: Auckland Women Lawyers' Association
  • Member: ICANZ Trust Special Interest Group
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
  • Trust law
  • Personal asset planning
  • Legal aspects of managing trust funds
  • Superannuation
  • Relationship property issues
  • Succession
  • Charitable trusts
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Areas of practice include :
  • Trust law : advice and opinions on legal issues relating to trusts, the administration of trusts, resettlement and variation of trusts, estate planning, estates and wills.
  • Establishment of trusts : private family trusts, charitable trusts, and other organisations.
  • Estate planning, asset protection and related measures.
  • Advice on the legal aspects of the investment of trust funds and generally on trustees' prudential duties.
  • Relationship property agreements and issues.
  • Advice and guidance to families on succession issues and development of strategies to address such issues.
  • Advising trustees of family trusts, charitable trusts and superannuation trusts on the interpretation of trust deeds, duties of trustees and the management and administration of trusts.
  • Negotiating investment management and custodial agreements
  • Liaising with regulatory authorities, including Government Actuary, Securities Commission (including applications for exemptions) and Companies Office.
  • Advising employers on rights, duties and compliance with respect to superannuation schemes
  • Advising on restructurings of superannuation schemes, including amalgamations, establishment of defined contribution sections in defined benefit schemes, surplus reversions, implementation of member investment choice, amendments, windings-up.
  • Advising trustees of, and employers with, existing superannuation schemes on all aspects of KiwiSaver implementation.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS 
  • Presenter of Auckland District Law Society seminar on A Lawyer's Duty to Give Investment Advice: 2005
  • Co-author of New Zealand chapter in International Succession Laws, Tottel Publishing.
 
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