We embrace the philosophy of antifragility to turn uncertainty into opportunity, providing legal and regulatory solutions that strengthen and protect your business.
Who is Antifragility for
If your business faces complex challenges and uncertainties, Antifragile Law is here to support you. Our approach is designed for businesses that don’t just navigate unpredictable events, but leverage them to their advantage.
Main Business Profiles:
Aviation Companies
Banks and Financial Institutions
Technology Companies
Contract and Business Advice.
Key areas where we can help:
Preparing for the unexpected
If your business needs a legal strategy that anticipates challenges and turns them into opportunities, Antifragile Law is the partner you need.
Strengthening contracts and agreements
We help you create and maintain robust, resilient contracts that safeguard your interests and adapt to changing circumstances.
Navigating regulatory changes
Staying compliant is a constant concern, and we are here to help you adapt and thrive in an ever-changing regulatory landscape.
Managing disputes and interactions with Regulators
We simplify these processes, allowing you to focus on what matters most—growing and sustaining your business.
If your business identifies with any of the following challenges, Antifragile Law is here to help:
- Difficulty in keeping up with and complying with local, national, and international regulations.
- Need to quickly adapt operations to meet new legal requirements.
- Identifying and mitigating operational, financial, and cyber risks.
- Implementing effective risk management strategies.
- Maintaining ongoing compliance with industry-specific standards and regulations.
- Need for regular audits and reports to ensure compliance.
- Need to quickly adapt to regulatory and market changes.
- Implementing flexible and resilient processes.
- Ensuring the security and privacy of sensitive data.
- Protecting intellectual property against misuse and violations.
Our Services
+64 (0) 27 5272100
patrick@antifragile.nz
Aviation
We have worked with airlines, airports, and aviation regulatory bodies on a variety of topics.
Banking and Financial
We have years of experience working in-house at banks across New Zealand and can help you with your banking questions.
Commercial and Contracts
Contracts are often longer and less clear than they could be.
Regulatory Affairs
Sometimes, companies need help working with regulators or drafting a compelling submission on regulatory change.
Risk and Compliance
Every company has different risk appetites. As lawyers, we have been involved with risk and compliance our entire careers.
Aviation
We have worked with airlines, airports, and aviation regulatory bodies on a variety of topics. Whether you need help understanding your regulatory responsibilities, reviewing or commenting on international or commercial agreements, or if you want to use our specialist commercial aviation knowledge for other purposes, we can help. Our aviation experience spans New Zealand, North America, and Europe, including negotiating co-operation agreements between New Zealand and multiple foreign countries on four continents.
Patrick has a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and has worked in aviation law for both the USA’s Federal Aviation Administration and New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority, as well as for the top airport law firm in the USA. He has also worked at a fixed-base operation (FBO) and in the marketing, scheduling, and pricing department of a regional airline. Patrick is active in aviation safety discussions and written articles for aviation law publications and spoken at aviation law conferences around the world.
Banking and Financial
We have years of experience working in-house at banks across New Zealand and can help you with your banking questions. We take a holistic approach to our advice, especially when it involves conduct and culture. We can explain how the different conduct regulations interact and provide advice on how to structure your conduct programme.
Our specialist areas include:
- Banking (Prudential Supervision) Act 1989 and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 2021. We have helped companies understand, monitor, and report on their Conditions of Registration and written submissions on proposed regulatory changes.
- Privacy Act 2020.
- Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2004. The CCCFA is our bread and butter. We created CCCFA obligations and controls registers, provided advice on potential CCCFA breaches, and worked with industry and regulators on various CCCFA matters.
- Deposit Takers Act 2023. The DTA changes the landscape of banking and prudential regulation in New Zealand. The Deposit Compensation Scheme (DCS) introduced by the DTA brings New Zealand in line with other OECD countries in providing New Zealand depositors protection for the first time outside of an emergency. We drafted a key submission to Treasury that increased the DCS limit from $50,000 to $100,000. And we have key knowledge about how similar schemes work around the world.
- Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013. The Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Act 2022 and the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (FSLAA or FAR) changed the landscape for banks and financial institutions. We helped banks receive approval for their FSLAA licenses and created monitoring programmes to support FSLAA and CoFI compliance.
Commercial and Contracts
Contracts are often longer and less clear than they could be. We are skilled contract drafters and reviewers and can ensure the key information you need to convey is clear and conspicuous in your contract. We can also teach you and your team how we review contracts and the key issues that could cause issues for all parties in the contract.
Our experience includes drafting and negotiating contracts of all sizes: from your typical service contracts to the national air ambulance contract. We have also helped mediate contractual disputes and come to successful, non-litigious resolutions between parties.
Regulatory Affairs
Sometimes, companies need help working with regulators or drafting a compelling submission on regulatory change. These interactions can be time-consuming, complex, and detailed. Fortunately, we are specialists in regulatory affairs. We have years of regulatory experience, both working for regulators and working with private companies in their interactions with regulators.
Our typical approach on regulatory change is to summarise the proposed change in plain English and work with your business to understand the impact. We will highlight areas we see as concerns and listen to your business about areas where you have concerns. We will then draft a submission from your view in a persuasive manner that captures regulator attention. We cannot guarantee results. We have had fantastic responses from regulators on previous submissions, though, by tailoring our responses to key areas where small changes can make a big difference.
We have included a list of some regulatory submissions we have been involved in under the Banking and Finance section.
Risk and Compliance
Every company has different risk appetites. As lawyers, we have been involved with risk and compliance our entire careers. Additionally, we have worked in banking compliance.
We can help you:
- Identify and map your risks and obligations.
- Create a monitoring and reporting plan, focusing on the areas most important to you and your regulators.
- Create automated reporting documents that allow your first-line and second-line functions to quickly understand and fully answer the questions most needed for reporting purposes.
- Prepare and present board and management risk and compliance reports.
- Make your business less fragile by putting risk and monitoring plans in place that will help you identify and avoid activities that could cause tremendous harm to you, your employees, or your business.
How it works
Benefits and Differentiators
Patrick has worked in-house for over 13 years. He knows the kind of advice in-house lawyers want and how to write advice that the business can easily use.
You will be hiring a lawyer who makes everyone in the business feel at ease and is easy to communicate with. Patrick makes the law clear and less scary.
You will be hiring a lawyer who understands business needs, takes time to understand how your business operates, and provides advice relevant to you.
About Patrick Wilson
Patrick graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics from Saint Louis University’s Parks College of Aviation and Engineering. After working on the front lines of aviation for a couple of years, Patrick earned his Juris Doctorate from Vermont Law School. He moved to New Zealand in 2011 and has been licensed to practice in New Zealand since 2014.
In 2022, Patrick earned a mini-certificate in Real World Risk from the Real World Risk Institute.
Experience
Patrick is a senior leader and lawyer with a diverse range of experience, including intellectual property, aviation, regulatory investigation and litigation, banking and finance, oil and gas, international agreements, contract negotiation, and accident compensation. He is known for his clear and compelling communication and genuine care for the people he works with.
Additionally, Patrick worked as a bank’s Compliance Officer, creating and managing risk and compliance registers for the CCCFA, FMCA, and Prudential obligations. He conducted assurance reviews on areas including capital adequacy, liquidity, and governance requirements, and has great knowledge about bank capital adequacy and liquidity calculations.
Patrick has worked in almost every aspect of aviation: from customer service to marketing, pricing, and scheduling, to representing aviation clients as a lawyer. He is known as an approachable, knowledgeable, and pragmatic lawyer who always focuses on how he can best help his clients.
Patrick’s articles and speaking engagements include:
- “Best practice risk and compliance for in-house legal teams”, International Air Transportation Association World Legal Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 22 – 23 February 2024.
- “An introduction to ergodicity and how in-house lawyers can use it to manage risk”, In-house Lawyers Association of New Zealand annual conference, 27 – 28 July 2023.
- “Clarifying papers to boards and executives” Clarity2016: a Plain Language Conference for Law, Business, and Government, 4 November 2016, Wellington.
- “The Cape Town Convention in India: repossessing aircraft after default” (2015) Vol 68, ALAANZ Aviation Briefs at 3.
- “A Texas-sized fight over airport access” (2015) Vol 66, ALAANZ Aviation Briefs at 19.
- “NZALPA v Air New Zealand Ltd [2014] NZEmpC 168” (2015) Vol 65, ALAANZ Aviation Briefs at 11.
- “Competing priority claims between the Cape Town Convention and the Personal Property Securities legislation in Australia and New Zealand”, Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (ALAANZ) Annual Conference, 8-9 May 2014, Melbourne, Australia.
Testimonials
Contact
+64 (0) 27 5272100
patrick@antifragile.nz
Patrick splits his time between New Zealand, Portugal, and the United States.
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