Colin Beyer

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Colin Andrew Nielsen Beyer, LL.B., (born 1938), is a prominent lawyer who was a Partner and is now Consultant with Simpson Grierson in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a Securities Commissioner on the Securities Commission of New Zealand.

Educated at Victoria University of Wellington, he achieved admission to the Bar in 1962. Specialities are corporate law and mining law.

In the 1970s, while living in Camborne, he spent some time on the Porirua City Council as a Labour Party representative. He later moved to Kelburn.

Beyer is also a prominent businessman. He was made a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors in 2006. He has been Chairman of the Accident Compensation Corporation, Government Property Services Ltd., Capital Properties NZ Ltd., Tower Corporation, Tower Ltd. and Summit Resources Ltd., and a director of Capital Power Ltd and TrustPower Ltd. He was a ministerial appointee on the Wellington Area Health Board and the Wellington Polytechnic Board.

He has been Honorary Consul-General of Finland for 13 years and is currently Dean of the Consular Corps in Wellington.

His stepdaughter Georgina Beyer achieved fame as the world's first transsexual Member of Parliament.