Lewis Tucker & Co
Lewis Tucker is a boutique investment banking, funds management and corporate advisory firm servicing New Zealand’s middle market and specialising in the agribusiness, forestry and food sectors. Lewis Tucker’s expertise is built on many years of experience in growing businesses and developing capital structures for both privately held and publicly listed companies across a wide range of industries.
Lewis Tucker is owned and managed by its two Principals, Chris Morrison and Will Leckie, who collectively have over 30 years of experience in New Zealand’s and Australia’s capital markets and have worked in highly successful and reputable investment firms and advisory houses.
Lewis Tucker prides itself on providing independent, practical and insightful advice, aimed at delivering desired outcomes to clients as quickly and cost effectively as possible, across multiple business disciplines.
Our Services
Lewis Tucker’s range of services are aimed at assisting our clients navigate through complex commercial challenges and opportunities by providing reliable, informative analysis and robust commercial advice.
afforestation capital Solutions
Mergers, Acquisitions and Capital Raising
Lewis Tucker Agency
Financial Modelling and Valuation
Strategic Planning
Capital Structuring
Lewis Tucker believes that on the right land, responsible rotation forestry can be complementary to farming operations. On economically marginal back country, rotation forestry for both timber and carbon credits can provide significant, reliable, intergenerational income streams.
Experience in acquisitions, divestments, mergers, capital raisings, strategic alliances, and amalgamations in both the public and private capital markets
Lewis Tucker holds a license under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008, offering transaction facilitation services to both large private and corporately held agribusinesses
Preparation and development of cost effective financial models which are ‘user friendly’ and offer commercial insight
Developing robust, well- founded strategies aimed at leveraging a firm’s strategic strengths, and addressing its weaknesses, all with the purpose of increasing shareholder wealth
Identifying optimal capital structures to address immediate and future funding requirements within defined risk parameters
Our Heritage
Lewis Tucker & Co - What’s behind the name?
Chris Morrison’s ancestry lies behind the Lewis Tucker name. Its lineage is no different to that of hundreds of New Zealand pioneering families who came to New Zealand in search of a better life.
Clan Morrison is of Nordic descent; people who settled on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in the 1300’s.
Chris’s great grandfather, James Morrison, arrived in Wellington aboard the Durham from Glasgow in 1873, aged one year. Like many clansmen, James’s family left the Isle of Lewis, initially settling in Glasgow before sailing for the New World.
Edward Tucker, Chris’s great, great, great grandfather arrived in New Plymouth from England with his family aboard the William Bryan in 1841. Edward’s son Richard established W. Tucker Ltd, wool scourers of Clive, Hawkes Bay. W. Tucker Ltd stayed in the Tucker family until 1998 after 125 years of wool scouring. The Tucker name has a long-established history in the New Zealand wool industry.
