The Practical Law New Zealand team is excited to announce the addition of two new topics: Data protection and privacy and Intellectual property, with practice notes from Wynn Williams and James & Wells.

The two new topics will complement and enhance PLNZ's existing key commercial and corporate law topics:

• Asset purchases
• Company law
• Contract law
• Corporate insolvency and restructuring
• General contracts and boilerplate
• In-house
• IT and outsourcing
• Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality
• Share purchases: private

For a sneak peek at a couple of the new resources which will be available to PLNZ subscribers under the new topics, check out these practice notes:

• Employee Monitoring by Anthony Drake at Wynn Williams with Practical Law Data Privacy Advisor; provides guidance on data protection rules and issues related to employee monitoring in New Zealand under the Privacy Act 2020.
• Introduction to intellectual property law in New Zealand by James & Wells with assistance from Practical Law New Zealand; provides an introduction to intellectual property (IP) law in New Zealand including an explanation of what IP law is and the value of protecting it.

For more information about Practical Law New Zealand, or to discuss a subscription to Practical Law, please contact Abigail Milburn, Practical Law New Zealand Lead.