CCH Analysts
CCH has an in-house team of highly qualified and experienced legal and accounting professionals.
Tax and accounting law
Carla Cross, BJuris, BProc, MTaxS (Hons)
Before her arrival in New Zealand, Carla was a director of a medium-sized law firm and specialised in commercial and property law. She then joined the IRD as an investigator focusing on tax avoidance and "high wealth individual" audits, before moving into the legal technical services unit. This was followed by a period with one of Auckland's top tax barristers, after which she joined CCH as a tax team leader.
Grant Henderson, LLB, MTaxS (Hons)
Grant has built up an extensive knowledge of tax over many years as a CCH tax analyst, commencing with the major tax reform period in the mid-1980s. His specialist knowledge includes business taxation, companies, partnerships and trusts. Grant also draws on his experience as a barrister and solicitor in general practice, working with small and medium-sized businesses, before joining CCH.
Jillian Lawry, LLB, MTaxS (Hons)
Jillian has over 13 years' tax experience in international accountancy firms, including experience as a senior tax manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Singapore. Jillian also consulted to a wide variety of corporates in New Zealand as a tax consultant for Ernst & Young. A qualified barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, Jillian previously worked as a solicitor in litigation, conveyancing and commercial law. She is author of the CCH Guide to Taxing Internet Transactions.
Rizwana Saheed, BCom (Hons), MTaxS
Rizwana works as a CCH tax analyst. Before joining CCH, she spent two years with Gosling Chapman (a medium-sized CA practice) in a mixed business advisory services/tax role and three years with KPMG as tax consultant.
Christopher Spells, BSc (Econ) (Hons, London), MA, MTaxS (Hons)
Christopher is a part-time CCH tax analysts and also lectures in tax and other commercial law subjects to undergraduate students at the University of Auckland Business School. He has a background in financial journalism, and is also a qualified solicitor in both England and Wales and New Zealand. He had extensive experience of legal practice and professional education in London before coming to New Zealand in 2002.
Lee Treadaway, LLB, BA
Lee has been the editor of the New Zealand Goods and Services Tax Guide and contributing editor for a number of other tax publications. Before joining CCH, she was a solicitor in the litigation division of a national law firm.
Teri Welham
Teri is a fully qualified chartered accountant and has trained and specialised in tax for a number of years. She brings to CCH extensive knowledge of the practical applications of tax law from her roles in both large and small organisations. She advised on a wide range of general and international tax issues as tax manager for Ernst & Young, has worked as an accountant in a small chartered accountancy firm and has managed a medium-sized business. Teri manages the CCH Question and Answer Service.
Trust law
Vicki Ammundsen, BSc, BCom, LLB
Vicki, a practising barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, has eight years' experience in tax and trust law. Before becoming a partner at Ayres Legal, Vicki gained experience in tax and trust law working as a tax practitioner at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Denham Martin & Associates. She is the author of Australian GST for New Zealand Businesses and Taxation of Trusts, both published by CCH.
Company law
Theresa Keenan, LLB
Theresa is a company law analyst with CCH New Zealand Limited. After gaining experience as a solicitor with Russell McVeagh, she spent six years with a major investment management company, advising on corporate and securities law issues. She is the editor of New Zealand Company Law and Practice and the New Zealand Company Law Guide.
Business law
Lucy Ellis, LLB (Hons)
Lucy has over 12 years' experience as a solicitor advising on company, banking and finance, and general commercial law issues. She was a senior associate at Bell Gully and has co-authored and edited a substantial rewrite of New Zealand company and securities law commentary.
Sarah Watt, BA, LLB
Sarah has worked in legal publishing for over 10 years, initially on the crime and competition law portfolios at Sweet & Marxwell in the UK, before joining CCH as an analyst and Legal Team Leader in 2008. She edits the New Zealand Employers' Handbook, and is responsible for updating Sales and Marketing Law in New Zealand and E-Commerce Law.
Health and Safety law
Terry Coyle
Terry has been the principal author of the New Zealand Employer’s Health and Safety Handbook since it was first published in 1996. He has a Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety from Massey University.
Employment law
Denise Henderson, LLB, MA (Hons)
Denise started with CCH in 1987 as a tax analyst, before becoming chief editor (business law), responsible for a team of CCH analysts and outside authors in the areas of employment, company, business and property law. After a break in which she completed her MA, she is back with CCH as the analyst responsible for CCH's New Zealand Employment Law Library.
Property law and conveyancing
Lester Blomfield, BSc, LLB
Lester is a property law analyst with CCH New Zealand Limited and editor of New Zealand Conveyancing Law and Practice. He has been a legal practitioner in law firms (including his own practice) for 26 years, specialising in all aspects of domestic, rural and commercial property conveyancing and development. He took over as editor of New Zealand Conveyancing Law and Practice in 2009.