James & Wells has named Peter Brown and Owen Culliney as senior associates and Sebastien Aymeric as an associate.

Managing partner Kate Wilson says the promotions are a relection of the irm’s commitment to professional development. “We have a clear vision of where we are heading, and it is deinitely a good space for all of us and the industry.”

Based in James & Wells’ Auckland ofice, Brown heads the firm’s food and beverage division. The industry is seen as an area of huge growth potential in New Zealand with the government’s plans to grow the sector by 300% by 2025. Intellectual property will play a crucial role.

Culliney is a commercial lawyer and heads James & Wells’ rapidly growing national commercial team. Having joined the irm in 2013, His diverse practice sees him working to commercialize IP, negotiate mergers and acquisitions, draft commercial agreements and oversee property related capital-raising and development.

A member of the Auckland litigation and commercial teams, Aymeric focusses on commercial and intellectual property disputes. He is well-versed in drafting commercial agreements as well as the processes and strategies of dispute resolution.