Mackenzie Elvin

Having returned to New Zealand from the UK early in 2009, David has joined Mackenzie Elvin’s commercial team. David’s background is in civil litigation and banking and says that his great enjoyment in life is people and places. His wanderlust has seen him travel widely through Europe & Asia, living in both London and Denmark along the way, though he maintains his return to New Zealand was always inevitable. Having grown up on a dairy farm in the heart of the Waikato he just couldn’t imagine calling anywhere else home. He even bases his professional approach to the law on an old farming maxim:

“Growing up on the farm I was always taught that the most important thing to remember is that if you are going to use a gate then you have to make sure to shut it behind you. I think the same can be said about the law. It’s about taking care. In legal practice it is important to get things right for the client at the outset to avoid running into problems later on”