Join the Auckland branch of the RMLA for an insightful session on the funding and financing tools reform - hailed a 'game changer' for infrastructure development.

New Zealand is facing a projected infrastructure deficit of approximately $210 billion by 2050. As the government pushes forward with its ambitious Going for Growth policies alongside RMA reform, securing sustainable infrastructure funding is a critical component of future development.

This session offers a valuable opportunity to explore how these changes impact resource management practitioners. Topics will include the proposed move away from development contributions, increased flexibility around targeted rates and proposed changes to IFFA and PPPs to make funding greenfields infrastructure projects easier.

Hear from expert speaker Cori Barkle (Rice Speir) and Stephanie Ward (KPMG) as they share their insights on current funding and financing tools and discuss what to expect from the upcoming reforms.

• Cori Barkle is a Director at Rice Speir with over two decades of experience as an infrastructure funding, developments and property lawyer in local and international law firms, including an extended recent period working inhouse as one of the lead project and development lawyers at Auckland Council.

• Stephanie Ward is a partner in KPMG NZ’s Infrastructure Advisory practice. She started her career in the NZ Treasury working on transport and housing programmes and now advises clients across local and central government on funding and financing options and the commercial models for delivering infrastructure. KPMG has advised on public private partnerships (PPPs) and Infrastructure Funding and Financing Act (IFF) projects, as well as bespoke arrangements.