Life Outside Politics
Alec Neill is a consultant solicitor with Lane Neave, lawyers Christchurch and is part of the private client team. He was a partner at Berry & Co, Oamaru for 15 years (1976–1990) before being elected to Parliament in 1990 as the MP for Waitaki. After relocating to Christchurch in 1997 he purchased the Shirley office of Wood Marshall, solicitors and practised as Neill & Co. Alec Neill has a wealth of experience across general legal issues but now concentrates on rural and commercial, company, trusts and estate planning law. He is a certified RMA commissioner and has sat on many hearings involving RMA consent applications in Canterbury.
On 1 July 2011 Alec Neill was elected as chair of The Canterbury Community Trust a philanthropic trust with investments in excess of $(NZ)500,000,000. The trust distributes over $20,000,000 each year to charitable and sporting organisations in Canterbury, Nelson and Marlborough, New Zealand. In August 2012 he was appointed to the board of SBS Bank, one of a few wholly New Zealand-owned banks.
Alec Neill is married to wife Diane and has a blended family of 5 children.
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