Jenny Cooper KC

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jcooper@shortlandchambers.co.nz

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Jenny is a highly regarded commercial litigator with specialist expertise in company and securities law, financial services, competition law, and insolvency. She is ranked by Chambers and Partners as one of New Zealand’s top KC's in Dispute Resolution and is listed as one of New Zealand's leading insolvency and restructuring barristers in Doyle’s Guide. Her practice also encompasses regulatory investigations, fair trading and consumer finance law, contract and tort claims, trusts, and insurance.

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Alongside her commercial practice, Jenny was a co-founder and the inaugural President of Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc. which brings together lawyers to advocate for action against climate change. Jenny has previously held a number of other leadership roles in the profession, including being on the Council of the New Zealand Bar Association.

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Jenny Cooper KC

Tel

+64 9 354 1408

Mob

+64 21 632 260

jcooper@shortlandchambers.co.nz

Email PA

Profile

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Areas of practice

Banking, Securities, Tax and Financial Regulation

Building and Construction

Competition and Fair Trading

Contract, Civil, Government and Commercial Disputes

Insolvency and Liquidation

Insurance

Judicial Review and Public Law

Company

Additional information

Case History

Court-appointed counsel for the unsecured creditors in Ruscoe v Cryptopia Limited (in liquidation) [2020] NZHC 728, an application for directions by the liquidators of a cryptocurrency exchange raising novel issues of property, trust, and insolvency law in relation to cryptocurrencies.
Counsel for Woolworths in an application for judicial review of a decision by the Alcohol Regulatory Licensing Authority, Woolworths New Zealand Ltd v ARLA [2020] NZHC 293.
Counsel for interim liquidators of CBL Insurance in relation to the application by the Reserve Bank to appoint them as permanent liquidators, Reserve Bank of New Zealand v CBL Insurance Ltd [2018] NZHC 2969.

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Documents

Court-appointed counsel for the unsecured creditors in Ruscoe v Cryptopia Limited (in liquidation) [2020] NZHC 728, an application for directions by the liquidators of a cryptocurrency exchange raising novel issues of property, trust, and insolvency law in relation to cryptocurrencies.
Counsel for Woolworths in an application for judicial review of a decision by the Alcohol Regulatory Licensing Authority, Woolworths New Zealand Ltd v ARLA [2020] NZHC 293.
Counsel for interim liquidators of CBL Insurance in relation to the application by the Reserve Bank to appoint them as permanent liquidators, Reserve Bank of New Zealand v CBL Insurance Ltd [2018] NZHC 2969.

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Publications and Seminars

Author of Laws of New Zealand Securities Law, Reissue 2
An overview of key climate change considerations across the law, ADLS webinar, June 2020
Who gets to speak in New Zealand’s top courts? New Zealand Womens’ Law Journal, 2019
Commercial Case Law Intensive, (Chair) NZLS Seminar, November 2019
Recent Developments in Directors' Liability, in S. Watson (ed.): The Changing Landscape of Corporate Law, 2017
Conflicts of Interest, NZLS webinar, July 2018
New Developments in Private International Law in New Zealand (with Campbell McLachlan QC and Jack Wass), LRF Seminar, 18 October 2017
Making the Penalty fit the Crime: the pros and cons of civil pecuniary penalties as a means of enforcing commercial law, Otago Law Review, 2016

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Professional Activities

Past President, Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc.
Past Council Member, New Zealand Bar Association.

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Qualifications

BA, LLB (Hons), MPhil (Oxon)

BCL (Oxon)

Year Admitted: 1995

Barrister Sole: 2011

Silk: 2017
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