January to December 2011

Overseas Investment Office
Decisions

Commentary and Index prepared by CAFCA

(Note: the OIO decisions quoted here can be viewed here)

Contents

January 2011 decisions

Americans Buy A Number Of Kiwi Hotels
New Hong Kong Owners For Four New Zealand Vineyards
And An American Takes Control Of Gibbston Valley Wines
Contact Energy Expands Geothermal Footprint
Michael Hill Now Plans To Increase His Investment

February 2011 decisions

Chinese Restructure Their Ownership Of Mangakahia Forest
Hart's Carter Holt Offloads 18 Forestry Blocks
AMP Takes Control of AXA
Fletcher Building Takes Over Crane
Singaporeans Now Counting Tegel's Chickens
Swiss Buyer For Two Opotiki Forestry Blocks
Aussie Sells Down His Porters Ski Field Holding To The Russians
Previous Roger Award Finalist Buys Renwick Forest
BNZ To Invest In Christchurch CBD Red Zone?
Aussies Sell Kelly Tarlton
Roger Douglas And His Unpleasant Friends
Other February Decisions

March 2011 decisions

SkyCity Consolidates Control Of South Island Casinos
Bathurst Increases South Island Coal Interests
Aussie Share Shuffle Of NZ Guardian Trust
Aussies Take Control Of  Rydges Hotel Rotorua
Lake Taupo Protection Trust Sells Land To US Forester
Another Two Southland Farms Bought By The Germans
Aussie Wine Investor Gets Retrospective OIO Approval
Previous Roger Award Finalist Scores More Cheap Forestry Land
Russian Investor Takes Control Of Mt Potts Station
And Another Russian Buys Shipyard To Get His Beached Super Yachts
Other March Decisions
Forests, Wine, &  Land
One Refusal

April 2011 decisions

Agria Now Controls PGG Wrightson
Getting Control Of Seeds Business
Oceana Gold To Transform Its Macraes Mine Into A Superpit?
Suppressed OIO Material Released To CAFCA
Contact Energy Buys 764 Hectares From Us For Geothermal Power
Germans Buy Yet Another Dairy Farm
US-Owned Simplot Mops Up Mr Chips
Other April Decisions

May 2011 decisions

Germans Continue To Buy Up Large In Southland
Contact Energy Buys More Land For Geothermal Reinjection
Other May Decisions

June 2011 decisions

Helicopters NZ Flies Off To Canada
Previous Roger Award Finalist Buys Another 13,000 Hectares
Soho Gets Coronet Peak Station
Italian “Suits” Take Full Control Of Rugged Ridges & Otamatapaio Stations
Other June Decisions
$1.3 Billion Mystery

July 2011 decisions

Kim Dotcom's NZ Troubles Just Begin
The Japanese Have A Taste For Charlie's
Private Equity Group Takes Control Of Veda
Retrospective Consent Given To Merck
Aussies Take Control Of GE Mortgages
Walter Peak Station Ownership Restructured
Germans Buy More Southland Dairy Farms
Blackfish Optimistic About Porter Heights Ski Field Development
Other July Decisions

August 2011 decisions

Germans Snap Up Yet Another Southland Farm
Kahutara Downs and Rakanui Station Change Hands Again
Ngai Tahu Sells Over 18,000 Hectares To The Swiss
And Strathblane Station Also Snapped Up By The Swiss
Other August Decisions

September 2011 decisions

Asahi Buys Independent Liquor
US Interest In Mind Your Own Business (MYOB)
More Canterbury Forests Sold
Aussie Owned Rest Home To Be Built In Nelson
Confidential Changes At Prime South Island Resorts
Privately Owned Wharves Change Hands
Other September Decisions

October 2011 decisions

Blackstone Gobbles Up Burger King
Babcock Takes Full Control Of Lease At Devonport Naval Base
Yet Another Southland Farm Bought By The Germans
Other October Decisions

November 2011 decisions

Fairfax Takes Literal Approach To Trade Me Investment
Goodman Takes Control Of Viaduct Harbour Properties
Retrospective Consent Given To Antipodean Port Operator
And Part Of Timaru's Wharf Goes To The Swiss
Swiss Buys 8,500 Hectares On East Cape
Waiheke Island Airfield Now English-Owned
Powerco Gets Retrospective Consent For Two North Island Properties
Repco Now American-Owned
Lendlease Restructures Its Dress Smart Malls
Another Countdown For Tauranga
Skeggs Sells Waiau Salmon Fishery To Malaysian-Owned NZ King Salmon
Other November Decisions

December 2011 decisions

US Company Plans Ambitious Geothermal Power Development
James Cameron Buys Two South Wairarapa Farms
Vampire Squid Buys Lloyds NZ Loan Portfolio
Private Equity Takes 50% Stake In Purex, Etc.
Chinese-Controlled Synlait Buys Factory Land
Indonesians Take 50% Stake In Southlands Blue River Dairy Systems
Other December Decisions

Numbers of deleted or released decisions
before appeal

 

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Total
2011

Deletions

2

3
4
2
0
2
7
0
3
2
4
5
34

Applications refused

0

1
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0

5

Decisions released

6

17
24
12
3
11
15
7
10
7
25
14

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Compiled by:
Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa,
P. O. Box 2258 
Christchurch.