At JW Legal, we are passionate about empowering all stakeholders to help them achieve their goals.

Our mission is to be the best-in-class advisors for NZ businesses. We are driven by a broader vision to leverage our legal expertise to empower our clients, our people and our community. This is our fundamental belief and it defines who we are and how we work.

Your Legal Team

 
 

Joshua Woo

Director

 
 

Josh is a corporate lawyer.

Josh is in charge of capital raising, exit and other corporate transactions. He has close to a decade of transactional experience, including listing a few companies on the NZX, over 50 capital raises, and business sales and purchases of all sizes. Josh also helps companies to set up ESOPs, shareholders’ agreements, financing and commercial contracts and more.

Prior to founding JW Legal, Josh worked at specialist corporate transactions firms in Auckland, including Harmos Horton Lusk and Webb Henderson. Immediately prior to JW Legal, he was a senior associate at a boutique law firm in Auckland, where he was the youngest member of the firm to have been promoted to that position. Josh is one of the solicitors approved by the NZX to provide opinions on listed entity governing documents. Outside of JW Legal, Josh is the legal advisor to TEDxAuckland and also a volunteer lawyer at the Auckland Central Citizens Advice Bureau.

josh.woo@jwlegal.co.nz | Linkedin | Book a consultation | +64 21 0293 8699

What we do

 

Some corporate and commercial work we do are:

  • Medium to large business sales and purchases (including bolt-on acquisitions)

  • Legal due diligence support

  • Employee share option schemes

  • Founder/Shareholders’ agreements

  • Seed, Series A-C funding, wholesale capital raises

  • Crowdfunding campaigns

  • Corporate governance advice

  • Financing agreements

  • Direct listings / IPOs

  • Privacy policy

  • Customer/sales terms and product launches

  • Licensing and commercialisation

  • Marketing campaigns

Our Partners

 

Outside of our clients, we are involved in our community. We are the official legal partner of:

TedxAuckland, a self-organised local events initiative under licence from TED

AUT CO.STARTERS Entrepreneurship Programme

AUT Law School’s Clinical Legal Studies Course