Toby Giles

DD:            +64 3 963 1466
Mobile:       021 441 255
E-mail:       toby.giles@saunders.co.nz
Office:        CBD

I am an experienced Partner who joined Saunders & Co in 2003 and operate across the Commercial and Property teams.

My wide range of experience includes:

• Significant exposure to the contracting industry, acting for major Canterbury civil contractors, quarries, demolition contractors, and transport and logistics companies.
• Experience within the insurance industry with local brokerage companies, particularly merger and acquisition-based transactions.
• Extensive property development background dealing with local iwi development, major developments in Christchurch, Queenstown, and Amberley, with greenfield residential, commercial, and supermarket developments.
• Mergers and acquisitions (both national and international), share and asset sales, tenders and RFP processes, as well as prior experience within the Telco and ISP industries.

I advise across the business and commercial spectrum in all fields. My style is to be as pragmatic and commercial as possible in all dealings and to work with a client to achieve their goals in a transaction

I hold a governance role with the Christchurch Rugby Football Club and I’m a delegate to the Canterbury Rugby Football Union (CRFU), a role that has exposed me to significant disciplinary and judicial representation experience. I have also held governance roles with a major Canterbury based Telco firm and a national consulting engineering company.