MULTINATIONALS & NZ SUBSIDIARIES

Establishing a New Zealand entity, backed by immigration and HR support

Intracorporate transferees, subsidiary set-up, and the ongoing HR function your New Zealand entity needs, coordinated with your Australian or US parent company, not handled as a series of disconnected local requests.

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Setting up a New Zealand subsidiary is a different problem to hiring for an existing local business. The decisions get made at the parent company, often in Australia or the US, but the compliance obligations, the Accreditation, the visa applications, the employment law, sit entirely with the New Zealand entity. Getting that handoff wrong is expensive and slow to unwind.

We work with the parent company and the New Zealand entity together, immigration for the people moving here, and HR support for the entity itself once it's operating, so nothing falls into the gap between "that's a head office decision" and "that's a New Zealand compliance requirement."

Ongoing HR support for your NZ entity is delivered through our sister company, Pivotal People, same team relationship, one point of contact.

What we help multinationals and subsidiaries with

Immigration and HR support, from establishment through to ongoing operation

Intracorporate transferee visas

Specific Purpose Work Visas for staff transferring from your overseas parent company. We know how Immigration NZ views these applications, and what needs to be in place for a smooth transfer.

Specific Purpose visas →

Subsidiary establishment support

Setting up the immigration and HR foundations of your New Zealand entity from day one, Accreditation, employment documentation, and compliance systems built correctly the first time, not retrofitted after a problem.

Talk to us about establishing an NZ entity →

Employer Accreditation for your NZ entity

A new subsidiary needs its own Accreditation before it can hire migrant staff. We'll work out the right level and prepare the application as part of getting the entity operational.

Immigration & Accreditation →

Ongoing HR, through Pivotal People

Once your entity is operating, ongoing HR, employment agreements, and workforce support are handled by our sister company Pivotal People, same relationship, same standards, no separate vendor to manage.

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Family visas for transferred staff

Partnership Work Visas and Dependent Child visas for staff relocating with their families, handled alongside the primary transfer, not as a separate process they have to chase up themselves.

Family visas →

An international technology company was setting up a New Zealand subsidiary and hiring locally for the first time. Their HR team sat in Australia, with systems and employment documents built entirely around Australian law, and no visibility into the New Zealand recruitment market or local employment terms.

We headhunted a shortlist of four New Zealand-based candidates, all genuinely capable of the role, so the employer only had to choose the best fit, working confidentially throughout. Alongside our sister company Pivotal People, we advised on the job offer, employment agreement, and New Zealand leave entitlements.

The result was an effective process and a strong hire. The employer told us it was a real contrast to other firms who'd handed them unscreened shortlists of 20 candidates, they said they could have hired at least three of our four.