About Us
Leaders in dispute resolution
Grimshaw & Co is one of New Zealand’s leading dispute resolution law firms. Our team of lawyers are specialists in their field and are skilled at resolving disputes by way of negotiated settlements, court proceedings and alternative dispute resolution. Our focus is on providing sound practical legal advice and achieving the best possible results for our clients.
Our history
In 2002 Paul Grimshaw and Matthew Josephson began acting for leaky home owners and bodies corporate at the Auckland law firm Cairns Slane. In 2005 they established a new firm, Grimshaw & Co, to provide specialist services to leaky home owners and insurance clients.
Grimshaw & Co quickly developed a reputation as the market leader in leaky home cases. The firm acted for a large number of bodies corporate and individual home owners with claims before the Weathertight Homes Tribunal, District Court and High Court. Grimshaw & Co acted on the leading leaky building cases including the Sunset Terraces, Byron Avenue and Spencer on Byron claims which proceeded to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and created important legal precedents.
Over time Grimshaw & Co acted on other important building defect claims. These include the leading second-generation repair case, Fleet Street, and the Victopia claim in which the firm engaged litigation funders to pursue the insurers of the construction company in Australia. Grimshaw & Co acted for the body corporate in the Uptown Apartments repair scheme case, in which the Court of Appeal set out important principles for the repair of mixed-use developments.
The firm has negotiated out-of-Court settlements for body corporate clients throughout New Zealand including St Lukes Gardens, Oaks Club, Oaks Shores, Townsend, Hobson Gardens, Waterfront Apartments and Marina View.
More recently Grimshaw & Co represented the Gore St owners in New Zealand’s largest body corporate building defect trial to date.
Our team is well known for its advice to body corporate clients, its focus on construction litigation and its expertise in property disputes.
As the firm has grown our commitment to clients has remained the same – to provide high quality legal services with skill, integrity and dedication.
Our commitments to our clients
Information for Clients – Learn more about the information we provide to clients under the New Zealand Law Society Conduct and Client Care rules.
Terms of Engagement – We pride ourselves on providing a cost-effective professional service to our clients. Our Terms of Engagement have been developed to clearly set out our professional relationship with clients when accepting and acting on client instructions.
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Sponsorship
Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship – Investing in talent
The Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship is one of New Zealand’s leading national literary awards and has a distinguished history of previous fellows. It was established in 1987 to commemorate Frank Sargeson and to provide assistance to New Zealand writers.
SCA (NZ)
Strata Community Association (SCA) New Zealand is the lead industry organisation for body corporate and unit title management in New Zealand. Its membership includes body corporate managers, support staff, committee members and suppliers of products and services to the industry.
Epsom Girls Grammar Rowing Club (INC)
Epsom Girls Grammar has a strong and proud rowing history. Producing champion rowers such as Kayla Pratt (Gold at 2014 World Champs, Bronze at 2013 World Champs) and Lexi Kerr (Gold in Trans-Tasman Group 2014).