Adrian Orr launches new company as restraint of trade lifts

Adrian Orr launches new company as restraint of trade lifts
Adrian Orr’s replacement at the RBNZ was named late last month. (Image: NZME)
Denise McNabb
With an extra $416,120 in his bank account after a restraint of trade clause as part of his severance pay lapsed, former governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Adrian Orr, wasted no time setting up his new management consultancy business on Monday.Accounting firm Grant Thornton registered his business, named Adrian Orr Limited, at the Companies Office less than three hours before the bank published its 2025 annual report detailing Orr’s final pay package after he quit abruptly on March 31, three years before the end of his second fi...

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