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Our lawyers are the best in their fields and are dedicated to protecting and promoting your best interests. Our people are smart, assertive, and provide strategic legal advice and advocacy that is honest, compassionate and respectful. Every time.

Gina Jansen

Managing Director, Lawyer
LLB, BA, MTaxS(Hons)

Gina Jansen is the firm's founder and Managing Director, and is a senior commercial litigation lawyer who brings diverse and vast experience from both the public and private sectors. Gina is well known for her tremendous energy, intellectual rigor, trail blazing ideas, incisive no-nonsense approach and willingness to tackle the difficult issues others fear. Gina provides her clients with solid and strategic legal advice, finely tuned to her client's particular situation. She holds both Law and Arts degrees from Canterbury University (1999) and a Masters in Taxation (with Honours) from the University of Auckland (2010). Prior to founding Gina Jansen Lawyers Ltd in 2007, Gina was a solicitor at Minter Ellison in Auckland, Inland Revenue and the Privacy Commissioner's office. Gina is a very experienced litigator and negotiator, and gets results IRD often can't.  Gina regularly appears in the High Court for IRD and tax dispute matters, including bankruptcy and  liquidation matters.

Gina’s specialist portfolio includes:

  • Advising business clients on futureproofing, tax disputes, strategic planning and company structures.
  • Advising taxpayer clients on Inland Revenue tax disputes, including investigations/audits, voluntary disclosures,  tax arrears, relief applications and  Court litigation including prosecutions, judgments, and Inland Revenue initiated bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings in the High Court.
  • Advising estate clients with succession, trusts, probate and letters of administration.

As an avid networker, Gina has a New Zealand wide network of highly reputable professionals her clients can utilise in: law, banking, finance, chartered accountants, insurance and real estate.

In her downtime, Gina and her partner Todd love to spend time at their Waikato farm and Raglan beach house, where Gina gets to exercise her creative flair in architecture, art and interior design. Gina and Todd love cruising the world's oceans, and visiting the USA, where they have made many friends in their favourite state of Texas.  

If you are seeking a dedicated and ethical lawyer who listens, values you as a client, and has your back 100%, then Gina Jansen is the lawyer you have been looking for. Call or email Gina now.

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