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Our Expertise

 

Tompkins Wake is the law firm that clients turn to for help on the matters most important to them. We use our collective knowledge and expertise to develop solutions to the complex and sophisticated challenges our clients present.

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Aged Care

With New Zealand's expanding ageing population, Tompkins Wake helps our clients navigates the complexities of the rapidly growing aged care sector, providing st...

Agribusiness & Rural

Tompkins Wake works with clients across New Zealand's primary sector supply chain from private and individual farming families, large corporate farming enterpri...

Banking & Finance

Tompkins Wake's banking and finance team is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of partners from across the firm, including specialists in corporate advisory, fi...

Charities, Not for Profit & Social Enterprise

Not-for-profit and charitable organisations are an integral part of New Zealand society. Tompkins Wake advises not-for-profit, charitable and philanthropic orga...

Commercial Property

Tompkins Wake's Commercial Property team work with our clients on significant development, acquisition, sale, leasing, and infrastructure transactions drawing o...

Competition & Trade

Competition law enforcement action is becoming increasingly common in New Zealand and globally, as governments around the world take a stronger stance on anti-c...

Construction

Advising on construction projects and contracts, and resolving construction-related disputes, Tompkins Wake has built an extensive knowledge base in constructio...

Corporate & Commercial

Our lawyers have a depth of knowledge developed from working across New Zealand’s commercial sector coupled with top tier international experience gained in-mar...

Dispute Resolution & Litigation

Tompkins Wake has a long tradition of excellence in commercial dispute resolution and litigation dating back nearly 100 years. Our team advises on some of the m...

Education

Tompkins Wake has extensive experience working with education providers (schools, universities and other tertiary institutions) across New Zealand's education s...

Employment

Employers in New Zealand have a robust legal framework to comply with to meet their obligations to employees. Our employment team work with our clients to help ...

Energy

Tompkins Wake has substantial experience and expertise in the energy industry, working with clients across the New Zealand energy sector to provide advice and s...

Events & Venues

The hosting and staging of a major event is a complex and multi-faceted exercise, requiring an experienced team who understand the events industry and regulator...

Environment & Resource Management

Tompkins Wake provides expertise in environmental and resource management law helping our clients navigate the Resource Management Act and associated legislatio...

Family and Relationship Law

Family law can be complex and emotionally challenging. We combine exceptional legal advice with an empathetic approach to help our clients navigate complexity a...

Family Office & Private Wealth

Over nearly 100 years, Tompkins Wake has built a solid reputation as trusted advisor to high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and wealthy families. We provi...

Food & Beverage

Tompkins Wake works for some of New Zealand's largest processors of dairy, red meat and poultry, honey and domestic and international food manufacturers and bev...

Forestry

Tompkins Wake has been involved in significant forestry transactions, and developments and our team are skilled at navigating the complexity of the New Zealand ...

Franchising

Tompkins Wake's franchising law experts have significant experience acting for franchisors and franchisees, tailoring our approach to reflect the often unique a...

Governance Advisory

Our Governance Advisory team comprises senior corporate lawyers and Board Dynamics, New Zealand's leading governance consultancy led by founder and Managing Dir...

Health & Safety

Tompkins Wake has a specialist team experienced in all aspects of Health and Safety law to help our clients ensure their workplaces are free from harm and compl...

Immigration

New Zealand has strict laws governing immigration, particularly with COVID 19 restricting entry through its borders. We are the law firm clients turn to on the ...

Intellectual Property

Tompkins Wake works to bring together experts from across the firm to help our clients design and develop Intellectual Property strategies. Our globally recogni...

International Trade & Overseas Investment

Tompkins Wake is skilled and experienced at helping clients manage cross-border transactions, business operations and the challenges of varying legal requiremen...

Life Sciences & Biotechnology

Our Life Sciences and Biotechnology practice advise some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, and animal health companies providing guidance, insight, and adv...

Local Government

Tompkins Wake’s Local Government practice advises local government clients across New Zealand and private clients interacting with local government.

Māori Business

Our team specialises in providing commercial legal advice to whanau, hapū, iwi, Māori landowners and businesses also providing extensive advice to local governm...

Mergers & Acquisitions

Tompkins Wake brings a depth of experience and expertise to merger and acquisitions transactions, providing high quality legal advice on transactions of all siz...

Privacy and Data Protection

New technologies and the shift in work practices are making good cybersecurity and data protection vitally important to businesses. Privacy policies and practic...

Private Client & Trusts

Tompkins Wake has built a solid reputation as trusted advisors to our private clients for over a century, working with generations of New Zealand families to pr...

Private Equity & Venture Capital

In New Zealand we pride ourselves on innovation and our ability to adapt and solve problems using our “number eight wire” mentality. We work closely with entrep...

Property & Real Estate

Tompkins Wake provides a full range of property law services throughout New Zealand, combining our local knowledge with nationally recognised expertise to provi...

Public Law

Tompkins Wake’s Public Law practice advises local government clients and private clients interacting with local and central government.

Small-Medium Business (SME)

We help SME clients understand the law and how it applies to and affects their business, making it easier to operate and transact with customers and suppliers. ...

Start-Up & Growth Business

New Zealand has a thriving startup ecosystem, fuelled by our innovative and forward thinking DNA. We work with clients across every stage of the business lifecy...

Technology & Digital

Emerging technologies are setting a fast and exciting pace of change, but also posing challenging legal and regulatory questions some of which have never been e...

Trust & Estate Litigation

Trust and Estate Litigation is a specialised area of law that deals with disputes involving the management or administration of trusts and estates, the making o...

Restructuring & Insolvency

Our restructuring and insolvency team take a multi-disciplinary approach, using experts from across the firm to provide financial, corporate and litigation advi...

Water & Wastewater

The management of water resources in New Zealand is a contentious topic with ethical and sustainability considerations and ongoing reform balanced against stron...