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Law Practice in New Zealand
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Anderson Lloyd
We are a leading New Zealand law firm focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients. Our lawyers are widely recognised for their expertise and the value they deliver. Located in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown, we have more than 170 partners and staff across our offices. What makes Anderson Lloyd successful? It’s our commitment to: Our clients We take time to understand our clients and form long-term partnerships with them. Excellence We strive for excellence in everything we do to achieve the best results for our clients. We provide the highest standards of service. Commercial outcomes We understand the needs of our clients’ businesses and provide strategic and commercially focused solutions. We are straightforward and pragmatic. Our people Our people set us apart. We offer challenging and stimulating work and an environment that encourages their growth. This benefits our clients. Acting responsibly Our sustainability programmes promote environmentally sound practices, encourage diversity, and form partnerships that benefit the communities in which we live. What do we do? We provide strategic and commercially focused legal advice. Being located in four key economic centres enables us to bring local knowledge as well as a national team to any situation. We have for 160 years supported the sectors and industries that have made New Zealand successful. Our lawyers advise across ten key areas of law: agribusiness and rural; banking and finance; corporate and commercial; dispute resolution; employment and health and safety; environment, planning and natural resources; infrastructure, projects and construction; local government; private client; and property and development.
51 to 200 staff
Russell Mcveagh
Russell McVeagh is a leading commercial New Zealand law firm, known as the go-to team for tackling complex legal problems. We have over 350 people across our offices in Auckland, Wellington and Te Waipounamu South Island, with the opening of our Queenstown office coming soon in March 2025. We offer our clients a collaborative, seamless approach and support a wide range of clients drawing on our expertise across the full spectrum of corporate advisory, banking and finance, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate and construction, tax, public law and environmental law. Whether you are a major corporate, regulator, investor, public sector, or non-profit organisation, we listen and take the time to develop a deep understanding of our clients' ambitions. We adapt to our client's preferred ways of working and always seek to find solutions that align with their culture and values, and strategic goals. Above all, we aim to provide pragmatic and clear advice. Our firm's values of Manaaki | Respect, Whai hiranga | Excellence, Māhirahira | Curiosity, and Whakapau kaha |Tenacity, are at the heart of our culture and reflect who we are, what we stand for and how we work together.
201 to 500 staff
Chapman Tripp
We relish our position and reputation as an innovative and leading law firm. In a market crowded by legal tradition, we choose to look to the future. We embrace technology and see it as a tool to better serve our clients, and we are constantly pushing the boundaries of legal know-how. We are not content to stand still – we never stop learning and improving. Being the firm that leads allows us to constantly challenge ourselves to deliver more value and high-quality legal work. It also enables us to work on the largest, most complex and high-value transactions, projects and disputes in New Zealand. Not only do we work with our clients to help them succeed, but we are at the forefront of regulatory change, using our knowledge and expertise to shape a better future for all New Zealand. Our people are our greatest asset and we actively promote fairness and equality of opportunity from career development, flexible working and investing in learning and development. Supporting our people to be the best they can be is one of our core values. It is important to us that our people can be their authentic selves and thrive, both inside and outside of work. We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace and fostering a culture of wellbeing. We have a truly national presence, with more than 50 partners and more than 400 staff across the firm’s offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
201 to 500 staff
Simpson Grierson
Simpson Grierson is one of New Zealand's leading full service commercial law firms, and also one of the largest. Invested in your future. It’s a promise we make to our people, our clients, and New Zealand. Put simply, it means our best future is in helping you shape yours. Supporting your success, creating great outcomes, and investing in long-term relationships. We invest in our people, and are determined to make Simpson Grierson one of the best places to work, learn and grow. Our supportive culture empowers people to thrive and succeed. Working with us means you get to shape the way you work, maintain wellness and balance, and benefit from our sector-leading learning and development programme. We invest in our clients, earning trust through exceptional service, open communication, and helping them to grow and succeed. We shape our service around specific client needs, delivering commercially-savvy legal advice while solving problems and anticipating others. Having us in your corner means having the confidence to get on with what you do best. We invest in New Zealand, helping to make this country one of the best places in the world to live and work. We advocate on key issues and support New Zealand’s decision makers in promoting the wellbeing of our communities. Our community programme seeks out partnerships and pro-bono projects that create opportunities to give back and make a positive difference in people’s lives.
201 to 500 staff
Hudson Gavin Martin
Hudson Gavin Martin is a corporate and commercial law firm specialising in technology, media and intellectual property. By creating genuine partnerships and working beyond the traditional scope, we help identify opportunities, create new connections and set new standards. To help clients successfully navigate change, we have ensured our own expertise covers every growth industry. In this way, we understand the greater context, we see potential not yet identified and remain alive to the opportunities. It’s no problem to us. Our aim is to navigate clients towards the opportunities no matter how well hidden they may be – whether in a deal or a dispute. Our extensive experience across the dynamic worlds of content and communications sees us match fit across all creative industries. Creativity is at the heart of problem solving – even in the law. Solutions must be fit for purpose; there is no room for the generic response. Check out more from us here or head to on how we can help you.
11 to 50 staff
Corcoran French
Corcoran French is a full-service general practice law firm. Our team has 13 partners and more than 80 legal and support staff who are committed to providing high quality, cost-effective, targeted legal services. We're know for our exceptional legal services, and for our special team culture and dynamic environment, where you can truly make your mark. With a history in the region dating back to 1892, and offices in Christchurch, Kaiapoi and Greymouth, Corcoran French has a well established and successful association with the communities and people of Christchurch, North Canterbury and the West Coast.
51 to 200 staff
Hesketh Henry
Hesketh Henry is a premium sector specialist law firm with the expertise to meet the needs of private and commercial clients. Hesketh Henry delivers legal solutions with clarity and purpose, helping New Zealand’s most ambitious clients turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities. Excellence lies in the details and the ability to see beyond them. Since 1865, this has shaped our approach. And while some firms rest on their history, we’re propelled by ours. With deep expertise across specialist practice areas, we offer forward-thinking legal advice that is both technically robust and commercially practical. We focus on what matters, simplifying complexity and providing insights that help our clients move ahead.
51 to 200 staff
Martelli Mckegg
If you want a reputable, well-established corporate/commercial law firm to act for you and your business, talk to Martelli McKegg. Our Auckland-based lawyers provide quality legal services to Australasian businesses. We've been doing so since Otho Martelli established the original practice in 1921. Through our membership of Meritas, we also offer our clients direct access to lawyers in more than 170 firms in over 96 countries. Meritas is the largest worldwide affiliation of independent commercial and business law firms. Specialised services - at the right level for you. We are a firm of approximately 45 lawyers. So we always have a solicitor available with exactly the right level of expertise to meet your needs. This helps you to achieve your goals while managing your costs. Our current clients range from small family-owned businesses and private clients, through to some of the largest organisations in Australia and New Zealand. Our clients operate in many different types of industries so we have the experience to assist you. For any matter you ask us to work on, we'll provide you with a letter of engagement. For significant engagements, we can develop a detailed scope of engagement and an estimate of costs, based on your anticipated needs.
51 to 200 staff
Tavendale Partners
Tavendale + Partners is a leading New Zealand full-service law firm, with offices across the motu. We provide trusted, strategic support and expert legal advice. Our exceptional team blends deep expertise, innovative thinking and a refreshingly personal approach to deliver optimum outcomes for our clients.
51 to 200 staff
Braun Bond & Lomas Limited
Braun Bond & Lomas is a nationally recognised boutique law firm, specialising in litigation and construction law. We believe that, by focusing on specialist areas of practice, we are able to ensure that we keep abreast of all legal developments, we maintain a high level of knowledge in our specialist areas, and in turn we are able to provide the best advice to our clients as efficiently and cost effectively as possible. Our philosophy is to provide excellent quality services at rates that are less than comparable legal service providers. We remain committed to this. Our team members are each highly regarded and dedicated to the continuing development of the legal profession. Of utmost importance to us are our clients. We understand the need to listen to our clients and empathise with the particular circumstances of each matter. Our aim is to provide practical advice having regards to the needs and desires of each individual client.
11 to 50 staff
Cr Law - Cooper Rapley Lawyers
Cooper Rapley was established in 1881 and is one of the Manawatu’s leading and largest law firms. Our clients range from family owned farming businesses and private clients through to some of the largest companies and institutions in the Manawatu and beyond. We practice in a range of areas including Commercial law, Rural law, Local government law, Resource management and environmental law, Civil litigation and dispute resolution, property transactions, asset protection, Estate and Trust administration, Employment law, Immigration law and Relationship property. Cooper Rapley is a proud part of the Manawatu community; we contribute both as an organisation and as individuals. Our team are energetically involved in many local community organisations.
11 to 50 staff
Fee Langstone
Fee Langstone is a law firm that takes a professional, principled, yet personable, approach to business. At Fee Langstone you will find a dynamic team of lawyers who come from a variety of backgrounds, many with international experience. For more than 20 years the partners of Fee Langstone have acted in some of the country's most significant corporate litigation, leading to the firm becoming one of New Zealand's foremost litigation specialists. We provide litigation services covering many specialist areas of expertise including insurance, receivership and insolvency, employment law, maritime, corporate legal services and more. Our services also include advisory work to avoid litigation, dispute resolution and mediation.
11 to 50 staff
Haigh Lyon Lawyers Limited
We’re a carefully curated team of experts meeting clients’ challenges at their pace. We provide innovative and robust legal advice that is both intelligent and engaging. Haigh Lyon offers personalised service in a caring and collaborative environment. Property buyers, investors and experienced commercial developers continue to choose us because we give them an unfair advantage. We have have one of the strongest family law specialists teams in New Zealand headed by Amanda Donovan. The firm are strong in residential conveyancing and property, commercial, trusts, estates, wills, employment, family protection, and civil litigation. The firm was founded in 1928 by Frank Haigh and has produced many illustrious alumni including a Prime Minister, Members of Parliament, many Judges, Kings Counsel and other highly regarded lawyers. We are focused and expert at what we do. With Haigh Lyon you get accessibility and personal service. Our people have character and personality. We recruit not only the best but those with energy and drive. We concentrate on the ideal result for you. Our tradition is prompt and pragmatic service and we hold to that. Our clients matter. People make the difference. You will not find a more approach law firm to work with.
11 to 50 staff
Pipers
We are a specialist firm of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys with offices in New Zealand and Australia, and strong relationships with intellectual property professionals in all other jurisdictions. We have expertise in all areas of intellectual property law and practice and we offer a personal, down-to-earth service, where our attorneys are approachable and readily available to provide assistance. We are strongly committed to our clients and to forming enduring professional relationships.
11 to 50 staff
Wynyard Wood
Wynyard Wood is a law firm built on a strong tradition of client service. This includes a prompt and personal response from lawyers who are fully conversant with the commercial and private needs of clients across a range of sectors. Our origins go back to 1894 and we have grown with our clients and served their changing needs for over a century. We offer a wide range of general and specialist legal advice through our offices in Highbrook (East Auckland) and remote staff operating in Warkworth. Our advice is based on in-depth experience and specialist expertise delivered by our lawyers who take a real interest in their clients. We aim to provide legal guidance that is both effective and efficient, aiming always to achieve the best possible result for our clients. Our clients range from individuals and families to emerging businesses and established and successful international companies. As a mid-sized firm, we believe we hold an advantage over larger firms by being able to provide a personal legal service while maintaining excellent standards of advice. Large enough to provide specialist legal advice on matters from the simple to the most complex, but compact enough to maintain a personal relationship, we focus on customising our approach so that each client’s particular needs are met. We make it our business to keep up to date with the application of existing law and new developments in both law and practice. Solicitors regularly attend external seminars and training events. We maintain our own in-house legal education programme. Junior staff are closely supervised by our senior staff at all times. We provide a team of professionals who can identify and meet the specific needs of each client. We offer high levels of attention but take care to ensure that work is dealt with at the most economic level.
11 to 50 staff
Brookfields Lawyers
A leading New Zealand law firm providing a comprehensive range of legal services for public, corporate and private clients throughout New Zealand. We focus on understanding your business and finding solutions to help you achieve your best outcomes. Learn more about our senior lawyers and areas of legal expertise.
51 to 200 staff
Armstrong Murray
Armstrong Murray Limited is a long-standing, reputable law firm based in Takapuna, Auckland. Whatever your legal needs, our talented and friendly team can provide a comprehensive range of services to suit. We will protect your interests in a practical, personal and cost-effective way. Our expertise includes: – Property law – Commercial law – Trusts, estates and asset protection – Family law – Litigation – Notarial services
11 to 50 staff
Blackmanspargo Rural Law Limited
We are a multi-award winning law firm that specialises in rural law. We have a passion for the rural sector and act for some of the largest farming, forestry and kiwifruit clients in New Zealand, Europe and Asia. BlackmanSpargo support farming families and the primary sector in achieving their goals. We are committed to delivering effective and innovative solutions. Our team of skilled professional will take time to listen and understand your concerns and will respond in a timely manner.
11 to 50 staff
Carson Fox Legal
Carson Fox Legal is a specialised commercial, business and property law practice. We are located in central Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city and the centre of its commerce. Ours is not a large "full service" practice; we are a small focused team because we like it that way - focused on what we enjoy doing, doing what we do best, and working with people we enjoy working with. What we do best is provide practical advice. In doing so we work with a collaborative approach and rely on core competence and character. We invest in technology and use secure cloud servers to maintain and access information. Our practice has the flexibility to structure services to suit our clients' needs. Consequently we have the ability to, and do, manage significant project work and have earned the reputation of being an innovative provider of legal solutions to both business and private clients. We have a wealth of experience from very large projects - including completing New Zealand's largest land transaction one year - to daily advice on pressing concerns of our private clients. We value and enjoy the variety of legal issues and people we deal with every day. It is an imperative for us to like our work. We will always welcome new clients with shared values so that we can serve only those who both need and want our help, we will charge enough to maintain competence without losing character, and we will strive to enjoy our chosen profession while providing effective solutions to our selected clients in a sustainable business environment. At the same time we will enjoy life outside of the office - that too makes us better lawyers.
11 to 50 staff
Dti Lawyers
We are lawyers who have specialist expertise and extensive commercial experience. We work with our clients as a trusted partner in their legal affairs. Let us understand you and your business and the outcomes you want. Then we’ll recommend the best way to get there.
11 to 50 staff
Dundas Street Employment Lawyers
Dundas Street is a specialist employment law firm. Our point of difference is that we have worked at the coal face and understand the practical issues facing employers. As well as being lawyers, we have worked in industrial relations roles and as in house advisors. Our advice is therefore pragmatic, strategic and results focused. The firm is led by Susan Hornsby-Geluk and Blair Scotland, who between them have 40 years of experience in employment law. We have a team of experienced lawyers including Ros Webby, David Traylor, Chloe Luscombe, Megan Vant, Barnaby Locke, Jack Rainbow, Sianatu Lotoaso, Alice Bevin and Alice Anderson. Our client base is made up of large public and private sector employers, including MFAT, Inland Revenue, Airways Corporation, ACC, Housing New Zealand, Metlifecare, Port Taranaki and Christchurch City Council. We also act for small and medium sized businesses; and for employees. Dundas Street has particular expertise in public sector employment issues, collective bargaining, restructuring, personal grievances and disputes, employment investigations, mediation and litigation. We work at the cutting edge of employment disputes and litigation and have acted for both employers and employees in several high profile cases. We are fierce advocates for our clients and will get the job done!
1 to 10 staff
Harmans Lawyers
Harmans is located in Christchurch at Level 2, 79-81 Cashel Street in the Central City. Having operated in and around Canterbury since we’re immensely proud of our history in the region and the role we play in our local community. Over the years we’ve evolved and adapted to meet the needs of our clients, expanding our team of highly qualified lawyers and exceptional support staff accordingly. That team provides a comprehensive range of legal services, from Asset Protection, Estate Administration and Property and Commercial Law to Resource Management, Family Law, Dispute Resolution and Employment Law. We passionately believe that sound advice and quality legal services should be accessible and available to everyone, and we’ve gone to great lengths to blend outstanding service with a down-to-earth approach. We are committed to creating an environment that reflects our core values of integrity, honesty, and reliability, while our forward-thinking, innovative mindset allows us to tailor solutions and strategies to suit each client’s individual circumstances and requirement
51 to 200 staff
Harmos Horton Lusk
Harmos Horton Lusk is New Zealand’s premier specialist corporate law firm. We excel in all areas of corporate law, with a core focus on complex and challenging corporate transactions and strategic advisory engagements. We are acknowledged market leaders in critical governance advice, public takeovers, private mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, and public and private capital raisings. Chambers & Partners confirms that "Harmos Horton Lusk has established a reputation for expertise at the high end of the market." We are dedicated to creating outcomes. We develop innovative and industry-leading strategies that realise genuine commercial benefits for our clients and set the benchmark for best practice. We focus on solutions, not problems. Why Harmos Horton Lusk? Harmos Horton Lusk was founded on the belief that in corporate law, deep experience, strategic intellect and incisive thinking will always win the day. It is a focus that has served our New Zealand and international clients well in the results we consistently achieve for them. Because corporate law is all we do, we are uniquely attuned to commercial outcomes. For us, it is not simply about the law, it is about the outcome and enduring client satisfaction. High stakes transactions can be rife with uncertainty, are incredibly demanding and call for creative and innovative solutions-oriented lawyers. We think outside the square. We have an absolute commitment to achieving the best outcomes for our clients. Our reputation is unique. While we rank among the very top firms for transactional legal advice we do not embrace the need for size. Rather, we are a specialist firm working at the highest levels, solving our clients’ most complex and challenging problems.
11 to 50 staff
K3 Legal
The K3 Legal team is comprised of expert multi-cultural, multidisciplinary lawyers. When you or your business need the best on your side, we’ll help you navigate through to resolution or commercial results. We don’t have a template approach to legal challenges – we always step back and explore the wider picture to find the best response, often in innovative ways. Our team of Chinese lawyers speak fluent Mandarin and English. Our team of Korean lawyers are also bi-lingual and are seamlessly integrated into NZ law, with an understanding of Korean culture and needs. Connect with K3 Legal to get specialist expertise with big picture thinking.
11 to 50 staff
