Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand
2011
Overseas Investment Office – Decisions
Commentary and Index prepared by CAFCA
(Note: the OIO decisions quoted here can be viewed here.)
Contents
January 2011 decisions
Americans Buy A Number Of Kiwi Hotels; New Hong Kong Owners For Four New Zealand Vineyards; And An American Takes Control Of Gibbston Valley Wines; Contact Energy Expands Geothermal Footprint; Michael Hill Now Plans To Increase His Investment; Other January Decisions
February 2011 decisions
Chinese Restructure Their Ownership Of Mangakahia Forest; Hart’s Carter Holt Offloads 18 Forestry Blocks; AMP Takes Control of AXA; Fletcher Building Takes Over Crane; Singaporeans Now Counting Tegel’s Chickens; Swiss Buyer For Two Opotiki Forestry Blocks; Aussie Sells Down His Porters Ski Field Holding To The Russians; Previous Roger Award Finalist Buys Renwick Forest; BNZ To Invest In Christchurch CBD Red Zone?; Aussies Sell Kelly Tarlton; Roger Douglas And His Unpleasant Friends; Other February Decisions
March 2011 decisions
SkyCity Consolidates Control Of South Island Casinos; Bathurst Increases South Island Coal Interests; Aussie Share Shuffle Of NZ Guardian Trust; Aussies Take Control Of Rydges Hotel Rotorua; Lake Taupo Protection Trust Sells Land To US Forester; Another Two Southland Farms Bought By The Germans; Aussie Wine Investor Gets Retrospective OIO Approval; Previous Roger Award Finalist Scores More Cheap Forestry Land; Russian Investor Takes Control Of Mt Potts Station; And Another Russian Buys Shipyard To Get His Beached Super Yachts; Other March Decisions; Forests, Wine, & Land; One Refusal
April 2011 decisions
Agria Now Controls PGG Wrightson; Getting Control Of Seeds Business; Oceana Gold To Transform Its Macraes Mine Into A Superpit?; Suppressed OIO Material Released To CAFCA; Contact Energy Buys 764 Hectares From Us For Geothermal Power; Germans Buy Yet Another Dairy Farm; US-Owned Simplot Mops Up Mr Chips; Other April Decisions
May 2011 decisions
Germans Continue To Buy Up Large In Southland; Contact Energy Buys More Land For Geothermal Reinjection; Other May Decisions
June 2011 decisions
Helicopters NZ Flies Off To Canada; Previous Roger Award Finalist Buys Another 13,000 Hectares; Soho Gets Coronet Peak Station; Italian “Suits” Take Full Control Of Rugged Ridges & Otamatapaio Stations; Other June Decisions
July 2011 decisions
Kim Dotcom’s NZ Troubles Just Begin; The Japanese Have A Taste For Charlie’s; Private Equity Group Takes Control Of Veda; Retrospective Consent Given To Merck; Aussies Take Control Of GE Mortgages; Walter Peak Station Ownership Restructured; Germans Buy More Southland Dairy Farms; Blackfish Optimistic About Porter Heights Ski Field Development; Other July Decisions
August 2011 decisions
Germans Snap Up Yet Another Southland Farm; Kahutara Downs and Rakanui Station Change Hands Again; Ngai Tahu Sells Over 18,000 Hectares To The Swiss; And Strathblane Station Also Snapped Up By The Swiss; Other August Decisions
September 2011 decisions
Asahi Buys Independent Liquor; US Interest In Mind Your Own Business (MYOB); More Canterbury Forests Sold; Aussie Owned Rest Home To Be Built In Nelson; Confidential Changes At Prime South Island Resorts; Privately Owned Wharves Change Hands; Other September Decisions
October 2011 decisions
Blackstone Gobbles Up Burger King; Babcock Takes Full Control Of Lease At Devonport Naval Base; Yet Another Southland Farm Bought By The Germans; Other October Decisions
November 2011 decisions
Fairfax Takes Literal Approach To Trade Me Investment; Goodman Takes Control Of Viaduct Harbour Properties; Retrospective Consent Given To Antipodean Port Operator; And Part Of Timaru’s Wharf Goes To The Swiss; Swiss Buys 8,500 Hectares On East Cape; Waiheke Island Airfield Now English-Owned; Powerco Gets Retrospective Consent For Two North Island Properties; Repco Now American-Owned; Lendlease Restructures Its Dress Smart Malls; Another Countdown For Tauranga; Skeggs Sells Waiau Salmon Fishery To Malaysian-Owned NZ King Salmon; Other November Decisions
December 2011 decisions
US Company Plans Ambitious Geothermal Power Development; James Cameron Buys Two South Wairarapa Farms; Vampire Squid Buys Lloyds NZ Loan Portfolio; Private Equity Takes 50% Stake In Purex, Etc.; Chinese-Controlled Synlait Buys Factory Land; Indonesians Take 50% Stake In Southlands Blue River Dairy Systems; Other December Decisions
Numbers of deleted or released decisions before appeal
| Jan 2011 | Feb 2011 | Mar 2011 | Apr 2011 | May 2011 | Jun 2011 | Jul 2011 | Aug 2011 | Sep 2011 | Oct 2011 | Nov 2011 | Dec 2011 | Total 2011 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deletions | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 34 |
| Applications Refused | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Decisions released | 6 | 17 | 24 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 25 | 14 | 151 |
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