Gary Hughes has successfully represented the defendants in the Commerce Commission’s first ever criminal cartel (antitrust) prosecution, MaxBuild - a high profile bid rigging case in the construction sector. After more than 20 years working on competition law & consumer
AML/CFT and Financial Crime - Property & Real Estate and Construction Lawyers At the annual Property Law Conference held by The Law Association of New Zealand (TLANZ) in early 2026 Gary Hughes addressed the growing AML-CFT pitfalls facing property
Trans-Tasman AML and Financial Crime expert Gary Hughes was invited to contribute to the Law Society Journal, regular members’ magazine of The Law Society of New South Wales on the looming tranche 2 AML regulation for Australian professionals. In writing
Gary was interviewed for two publications on Anti-Money Laundering and financial crime topics during the first quarter of 2025. Regulation Asia magazine picked up on the new NZ Police National Risk Assessment recently released, the first such updated assessment published
At the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Toronto at the end of October 2025, Gary Hughes represented Britomart Chambers and, to an extent, the NZ legal bar as a whole, as speaker on several sessions. Most notably he
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Speaking in Sydney April 2024 Integrity Insights - Uncovering Ill Gotten Gains ** Gary's perspectives on Confiscating Proceeds of Crime Gary was invited to speak at the Financial Integrity Hub’s event held at at Crown Resorts Barangaroo, Sydney. The ‘Integrity
The New Zealand Court of Appeal at the end of November has let a court challenge by a group of Pacific Island money remitters sink beneath the surf. Their judicial review claim against the Reserve Bank of New Zealand ("RBNZ")
GARY INTERVIEWED special guest in the OF INTEREST PODCAST (AML-CFT law 10 year retrospective) Recently, top NZ financial journalist Gareth Vaughan approached me about doing a 10 year retrospective look back at evolution of our AML-CFT law. To which I
Gary has been part of the organising committee for the NZ Police Financial Intelligence Unit for over a decade, working to develop New Zealand's premier anti-financial crime conference. After many years held at Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Museum of NZ,
