Where There’s Muck There’s Money This month’s highlighted Decision involves a notorious transnational corporation (TNC), well known to CAFCA for decades. The Minister for Land…
Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Legislation, commentaries, the Overseas Investment Commission, the Overseas Investment Office and analyses.
Buying Up Bus Companies Continues Unabated This has been a theme of OIO Decisions in the past couple of years – the purchase of NZ…
Blanketing The Countryside With Trees For Carbon Credits I’m a lapsed Protestant and a historian, so I know something of the history of Protestantism. Martin…
It’s That Old Favourite Again: Retrospective Consent There were quite a few Decisions that could have been highlighted from the May 2022 crop – a…
All Major Petrol Retailers Once Again Owned Overseas The Minister for Land Information and the Associate Minister of Finance approved Ampol Limited Australia (99.06%); New Zealand (0.49%);…
Digital Big Boys To Set Up In NZ Amazon Data Services New Zealand Limited (ADS NZ) Various (100%) has been given OIO approval to buy land…
Whatever Happened To Carter Holt Harvey? These days the great bulk of the OIO’s monthly Decisions involve approvals for foreign companies or individuals buying existing…
Wool Scours Go To 100% Foreign Ownership Wool used to be the industry in New Zealand (I even played a modest part in it, spending several summers…
Buying Up Bus Companies This month’s one Decision was chosen to follow on from the one I highlighted in the August 2021 Decisions, namely the…
Buy Now, Pay Later Debt Trap Physical credit cards are on the way out (going the way of cheques, with cash following closely behind). Apparently,…
Undermining Waihi This is simply the latest step in the decades-long literal undermining of Waihi and the Coromandel by transnational mining companies. OceanaGold (New Zealand) Limited,…
Declined The Decision I’ve chosen to highlight this month illustrates the fact that, just occasionally, an application to the OIO gets rejected. The Minister for…
Buying Up Bus Companies This month’s one Decision is chosen to highlight the increasing foreign ownership of New Zealand public transport companies. To quote the…
Retrospective Consent; Pocket Money Penalty This month it’s worth highlighting that the OIO and/or the relevant Ministers routinely grant retrospective approvals. There were three in…
“NZ” Company Sold From One Foreign Owner To Another Bentley Systems Incorporated (United States 86%, Germany 14%) got OIO approval to buy Seequent Holdings Ltd (United States 46%;…