Our work

Central North Island geothermal projects
Bell Gully acted for the Tauhara North No.2 Trust as the owner of the Rotokawa geothermal field and development right holder of the Nga Tamariki geothermal field in the Central North Island in the commercialisation of these fields. In a joint venture arrangement with Mighty River Power, up to four new geothermal power sites will be developed over the next ten year period. The final project is the 132 MW Nga Awa Purua power station on the Rotokawa gas field which will create the largest single turbine geothermal project in the world.

Land Information New Zealand
We acted for Land Information New Zealand on a facilities management agreement with EDS for the provision and management of the technical infrastructure that supports the Landonline service, the Government’s largest automation project.

Air New Zealand
We acted for Air New Zealand on the outsourcing of the management of its mainframe and its voice and data communications.

New Zealand Ministry of Defence
We have successfully advised on numerous tender and procurement processes including the contractual conditions for the NZ$370 million purchase of naval helicopters for the New Zealand Navy, reviewing the tender processes and model terms of contract for large-scale equipment procurement for the New Zealand Army and Royal New Zealand Air Force and on the procurement of new naval offshore and inshore patrol vessels worth NZ$500 million.

Business Process Outsourcing Agreement
We have advised on the restructuring and renewal of the Item Imaging (Cheque Processing) outsourcing agreement, acting for Bank of New Zealand (BNZ). In 1997 Bell Gully acted as lead legal advisor on a contract for BNZ, ASB Bank, National Bank and EDS (New Zealand) for the outsourcing to EDS of all of the cheque processing work of each of those banks. The service was so successful that that contract was later renewed with Westpac also joining in 2006.

Department of Internal Affairs
Bell Gully advised the Department of Internal Affairs on a NZ$35 million contract for the design, build testing, operation and management of a system to enable daily electronic monitoring of all non-casino gaming machines located in about 1,800 venues across the country.