About

Provided by Bell Gully

​​We have New Zealand's leading litigation and dispute resolution practice. We won Benchmark Litigation's New Zealand Litigation 2020 Firm of the Year award, and both Chambers Asia Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific rank us in the top tier, Band 1, for litigation.

We are known for the depth and breadth of our litigation practice, our strong advocacy skills, and our strategic commercial advice.

Our expertise

Our team has significant expertise and experience in dealing with complex and contentious disputes in a wide range of commercial and public fields, including:​

  • Banking and financial disputes​
  • Class actions​​
  • Commercial and contract disputes
  • Competition law​​​
  • Construction disputes
  • Corporate and securities disputes​
  • Defamation and media disputes​​
  • Employment disputes​
  • Insolvency disputes​
  • ​Insurance and professional liability disputes
  • Intellectual property disputes
  • Maori legal issues
  • Product and consumer disputes
  • Property disputes
  • Public law
  • Tax disputes
  • Trust and equity disputes​

We have extensive experience acting in trials and on appeal at all levels of the New Zealand court system. We also regularly represent clients in arbitrations, mediations and other forms of dispute resolution.

In addition, our team also has substantial experience and expertise representing clients in regulatory investigations, proceedings and inquiries, including:

  • Commerce Commission
  • Financial Markets Authority
  • Serious Fraud Office
  • WorkSafe
  • Labour Inspectorate
  • Commissions of Inquiry

Chambers Review

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Dispute Resolution - New Zealand

1
Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Bell Gully's committed team advises on high-profile and complex cases in New Zealand and is a distinguished leader in defence of class action proceedings. The firm works with a prestigious clientele, including financial institutions and government bodies as well as corporations. Other areas of impressive capability include contentious insolvency proceedings, defective product claims, tax disputes and regulatory investigations and litigation. Bell Gully offers further proficiency in ADR proceedings such as arbitration and expert determinations.

Work Highlights

  • Bell Gully defended Johnson & Johnson in class action proceedings in relation to the efficacy of a number of their branded cold and flu medications.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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2
Sophie East
2
Band 2

Sophie East is based in the firm's Auckland office and offers a wide-ranging commercial disputes capability. Her areas of expertise include class actions, banking and finance disputes, and arbitration.

Sophie is good. She runs a great team of people, is very sensible and very on it.

4
Jesse Wilson
4
Band 4

Jesse Wilson acts prominently on corporate and construction disputes and is also an experienced handler of product liability and securities-related issues.

Jesse is great to work with. He's highly intelligent and thoughtful, and his advice is sensible and commercially pragmatic.

4
Tim Fitzgerald
4
Band 4
Tim Fitzgerald has a wide-ranging commercial litigation practice out of Auckland. He specialises in class actions, investment reviews and compensation claims.

Tim is dedicated, astute, curious, professional and fundamentally enjoyable to work with.

Tim Fitzgerald has a nice way with people, along with being a great strategist too.

U
Alix Boberg
U
Up and Coming

Alix Boberg is regularly sought to act for clients in class action and regulatory disputes and investigations with a particular expertise in financial markets, securities law and corporate crime.

Alix Boberg is very smart and excellent as well.

Ranked Lawyers at
Bell Gully

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New Zealand

Dispute Resolution

2
Sophie East
2
Band 2
4
Jesse Wilson
4
Band 4
4
Tim Fitzgerald
4
Band 4
U
Alix Boberg
U
Up and Coming

Clients

Provided by Bell Gully

AMP

Air New Zealand

Danone

NZX Limited

Pacific Alliance Group

Pernod Ricard

Pharmac

PwC

Vero Insurance