Tiwai Point Smelter. Rio Tinto Buys Out Sumitomo The Minister for Land Information and the Associate Minister of Finance approved Pacific Aluminium (New Zealand) Limited…
Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Legislation, commentaries, the Overseas Investment Commission, the Overseas Investment Office and analyses.
“Factory Farming Of The Elderly” The OIO has approved BUPA Retirement Villages Limited (United Kingdom 100%) buying cross-lease interests in villas 1-10 and villas 12-28…
“Hyperscale Data Centre” In Southland The OIO has approved Datagrid New Zealand Limited Partnership (Austria 38%, New Zealand 31%, France 31%) to buy six hectares…
“Zombie Fund Guru” The OIO has approved Resolution Life NOHC Pty Ltd (Australia 24%,Japan 22%, United States of America 15%, United Kingdom 11%, United Arab…
The process which became the 2005 Overseas Investment Act comprised the cover story in every issue of Foreign Control Watchdog from 104 to 109 inclusive (December 2003…
Solar Farms This is a recent example of the steady growth of solar farms throughout the country. This is a new form of energy but…
Buying Up Holiday Parks This company has been quietly but steadily buying up holiday parks around the country in recent years. The OIO has approved Tasman…
Burning Rubbish This is the controversial proposal to build a rubbish incinerator (a waste to energy plant) near Waimate in South Canterbury. It has spawned…
Woollies Buying Up Land Under Standing Consent Supermarkets don’t often appear in the OIO Decisions, yet they are among NZ’s biggest and most essential businesses,…
Global Merger Creates Agribusiness Giant The OIO approved Bunge Global SA United States of America (70%), United Kingdom (8%) Various (22%) buying up to 100% of the…
“Takeover Creates NZ’s Biggest Fisheries Company” The OIO approved Sealord Group Limited New Zealand (50%) Japan (37%), Various (13%) buying Independent Fisheries Holdings Limited (IFHL), Independent Fisheries Limited…
“Goodbye, Freddie” November provides quite a contrast to October – a lot less Decisions, none declined, and absolutely none featuring Ministerial Decisions. Probably everything to…
Labour’s Last Hurrah October 2023 was election month and a highly unusual one in the annals of the OIO. To quote from its monthly newsletter:…
DJ Software: US Company Complains About Japanese One Buying NZ One Alpha Theta Corporation (Japan 81%, US 8%, UK 6% and Various 5%) has been given…
Here’s A Rarity: Ministers Decline Application The Minister for Land Information and the Associate Minister of Finance declined an application from Port Blakely Limited (United States of…