Commercial lawyer Mark Copeland of Mark Copeland Lawyers at Rotorua and Auckland has been appointed as Chairman of the Legal and Ethics Committee of the International Paralympics Committee in Bonn, Germany. Pursuant to this role he is responsible for the determination of all complaints made under the IPC Code of Ethics, and also acts as Chairman of the Board of Classification of Appeals (BAC), the IPC Tribunal which deals with challenges to the classification of disabled athletes within Paralympic sport. Mark has had a long involvement with Paralympic sport, including as Chairman of Paralympics New Zealand between 2009 and 2015. httpss://www.paralympic.org/

I was watching this interview with my IR Global friend Joao Coriel of Portugal, and thought he does a really good job of explaining what IR Global is all about. httpss://youtu.be/nr7C-7P_Gcc  

Joint ventures can be an efficient and effective way to access new markets, develop new products or explore new industries.   Mark Copeland of MLC Lawyers specialising in Commercial and Rural Law collaborated with IR Global Members to discuss.  See page 10 for a New Zealand perspective … Click link below to download the brochure: IR Global Virtual Series – Collaborations Across Borders  

Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 – How the changes affect you, our valued clients. As from 1 July 2018 all lawyers must comply with the recent changes made to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (the AML/CFT law). In line with New Zealand’s commitment to the international initiative to combat money laundering and terrorist financing lawyers, and other professionals, must do a number of things to help the Police bring criminals to justice. This is what the AML/CFT law calls “customer due diligence”. For us, customer due diligence means that we need to undertake background checks before providing services to our clients. In order to meet our legal obligations we must take all reasonable steps to verify that the information we receive from clients is correct and supported by documentation. This applies even if you have been a client of … Read More

Following a review of all the submissions for the IR Global ‘Member of the Year 2018’, I am pleased to advise you have made the shortlist of 15x firms. As you can imagine, the submissions are of a very high quality this year, so to be on a short list of 15 from over 900+ members is a great achievement. Ross Nicholls Business Development Director, IR Global

Mark Copeland of Mark Copeland Lawyers, IR Global’s Commercial and Real Estate Member in New Zealand, recently attended the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games in South Korea. Mark is the Chairman of the Legal and Ethics Committee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), and is responsible for dealing with all formal ethics matters within Paralympic sport as well as chairing the Appeals Adjudication Panel for athlete impairment classifications. Mark is shown here with the Mascot for the Paralympic Games (Mark has the glasses!) and also with Andrew Parsons, the IPC President. According to Mark these Winter Paralympic Games were the best to-date: more nations won winter Paralympic Medals than ever before, more nations won a gold medal than ever before and more athletes competed in each sport than ever before. I have seen a lot of Paralympic sport, but to see leg and arm amputees snowboarding at a world class level, … Read More