Wendy Chen

LLM (Hons), LLB (Hons), BCom

Juno Lawyer

Auckland

Juno Head of Client Experience | Wendy Chen

Capability

Wendy is an experienced in-house lawyer, with wide-ranging experience in industries including aviation and funds management before joining Juno Legal. Beyond being a commercial lawyer, she has a diversity of other experiences - starting her own business, training in project management, working in non-legal roles such as digital teams ranging from start-up to large corporate, serving on not-for-profit boards, and singing semi-professionally in choirs. Wendy loves cross-pollinating and applying what she learns from across her experiences. She is a strong believer in the power of collaboration and teamwork – that the effectiveness of a collective is more than the sum of its parts. 

Juno Clients

2Degrees Mobile, Fonterra, Mediaworks, Fletcher Building, Mitre 10, The Warehouse, Port of Auckland

Before Juno

CarbonClick | Acting COO
Wendy Chen Consulting Limited | Working with start-ups as a commercial advisor 
Air New Zealand | Legal Counsel and Business Development Manager - Digital Travel Retailing 
Miroma Ventures | Senior Associate and Compliance Associate 
Capital Group | Legal Associate 
ANZ Wealth | Corporate Counsel 
ING | Corporate Counsel 
Bell Gully | Solicitor

Areas of expertise

  • General corporate and commercial including procurement and loyalty
  • Legal project management
  • Technology
  • Media and advertising
  • Consumer law and privacy
  • Governance
  • Company secretarial

Governance/Community

Formerly Deputy Chair and Interim Chair of the board at Kristin School, Chair of Luminata Voices Incorporated, and Trustee of the New Zealand Dance Advancement Trust.

Languages

English and Mandarin (conversational)

  • Wendy joined our legal team as an interim Head of Legal, and did a great job of leading the team, advising the business and assisting with corporate M&A throughout that time. Wendy provided very client-focused advice, and got up to speed with our industry and its needs very quickly. Wendy is not only very organised and structured with her thinking, she also has a very calm head and lovely manner. It was a very enjoyable experience to work with Wendy, and I trusted her completely with the team and to lead them on all legal work across the business.    

    Alex Nicholson

    Former People and Culture Director, Media Works

  • Wendy continues to be an absolute rockstar! She has excellent technical ability, agility, professionalism and overall smarts. She dealt with a broad range of work in a calm manner and helped move things along quickly and covered a large amount of work. Juno has good people with great experience and the ability to fit in.

    Andrew Cordner

    Former Director of Legal, Fonterra

  • Wendy is awesome and we all really enjoy having such a clever, engaging thinker in the team. She’s got a great sense of humour and a full set of soft skills.

    Nicko Waymouth

    Senior Corporate Counsel, 2Degrees

  • Wendy was an excellent addition to our team while she was with us. She has very strong commercial legal skills and integrated into our team and the wider business effortlessly. She was proactive and pragmatic in her approach and supported us well, particularly while we had a gap in our team which she covered for.

    Grant Fraser

    Chief Legal & Sustainability Officer, Mitre10

  • Wendy has fit into the team really well. She has a commercial, pragmatic approach that supports the business to move quickly, whilst still managing legal risk appropriately. Her interest and experience in legal operations has also been valuable for the team.

     

    I really enjoy working with Juno. I like its efficient, minimal paperwork approach, but it still feels like a personal business built around relationships.

    Erin Vercoe

    Former General Counsel and Company Secretary, The Warehouse Group

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