Daniel Street

• Acting for a leading Australasian bank in defending a breach of contract and misleading and deceptive conduct claim in relation to the sale of interest rate swaps. This case involved challenges to the bank’s standard contractual disclaimers and the scope of a bank’s duty of care when talking to customers about financial products. *
• Acting for numerous banking and financial services companies and their directors in relation to Financial Markets Authority investigations.*
• Advising several banks, managers of registered schemes and listed issuers on the application of New Zealand’s climate-related disclosures regime, including their obligations, potential liability and detailed analysis of the scope of reporting. *
• Advising boards and management teams on ESG litigation risk, in particular greenwashing, regulatory oversight, shareholder activism, and NGO claims.*
• Advising banks on their climate reporting, emissions target setting, sustainable finance frameworks, and advertising in relation to ESG claims. *

*denotes experience at previous firm