Emma TomblinPartner, BNI AvenuesDuncan Cotterill Lawyers | Legal & Accounting
Emma Tomblin is a Partner at Duncan Cotterill in the Christchurch office and a trusted advisor in complex commercial, property, and private client law. She is renowned for providing thoughtful, practical, and strategic guidance across a wide range of personal and business matters.
Key Areas of Specialization:
- Trust & Succession Law: Advising individuals and multi-generational farming families on complex trust law, estate planning, and asset protection strategies, particularly in light of the Trusts Act 2019.
- Agribusiness: Supporting farming families with succession planning, asset transfer, and property issues across the dairy, sheep and beef, and arable sectors.
- Property & Commercial: Handling commercial, rural, and residential transactions, leasing, subdivisions, and financing, as well as business sales, acquisitions, and shareholder agreements for privately held firms.
Emma’s approach is authentic and focused on building strong, long-term relationships, ensuring her clients receive clear, reliable advice for both their business and personal decisions.
Ideal Referral Focus:Emma's ideal referral is a high-net-worth individual, a family trust, or the owner of a privately held/family-owned business (especially in the Agribusiness sector) who requires specialist advice on succession planning, establishing or restructuring a trust, or managing complex commercial property transactions.
































