Tompkins Wake

Chairman: Scott Ratuki

Chief Executive: Jon Calder

Number of Partners: 35

Number of Lawyers: 120+ (including partners)

Number of offices: 4

Firm Overview

Tompkins Wake is a leading full-service national commercial law firm with four offices around New Zealand. With over 110 specialist lawyers, the firm provides clients with top-tier expertise and experience through its focus on genuine specialisation. Within the firm’s practice teams are experts with specific areas of focus, ensuring clients receive support and advice from those specialists who work collaboratively across the various disciplines. The firm has a strong international practice with clients investing and doing business in many countries around the world. Tompkins Wake’s practice is well supported by a dedicated management team led by the firm’s Chief Executive. The firm invests heavily in technology, ensuring its systems and processes provide its people with the best possible tools.

Main Areas of Practice

• Agribusiness & Rural
• Banking & Finance
• Charities, Not-for-Profit & Social Enterprise
• Commercial Property
• Construction
• Corporate & Commercial
• Dispute Resolution & Litigation
• Education
• Employment
• Energy
• Events & Energy
• Environmental & Resource Management
• Food & Beverage
• Forestry
• Franchising
• Governance Advisory
• Health & Safety
• Immigration
• Innovation
• Intellectual Property
• International Trade & Overseas Investment
• Life Sciences & Biotechnology
• Local Government
• Maori Business
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Privacy & Data Protection
• Private Client & Trusts
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Property & Real Estate
• Public Law
• Relationship, Property, Trust Disputes & Family Law
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Small – Medium Business (SME)
• Start-up & Growth Business
• Technology & Digital
• Water & Wastewater

Agribusiness & Rural: 5 partners; 7 fee earners based in Hamilton and Tauranga

• Rural law
• Commercial
• Employment & health & safety
• Property
• Environmental

Contact: Peter Fanning

Tel:+64 7 838 6051 

Email: [email protected]

Banking & Finance: 4 partners; 6 fee earners based in Hamilton and Auckland

• Investment
• Insolvency
• Corporate finance
• Venture capital
• Corporate restructuring

Contact: Mark Renner

Tel:+64 7 838 6050 

Email: [email protected]

Commercial Property: 4 partners; 8 fee earners based in Hamilton, Auckland and Tauranga

• Subdivisions & Property Development
• Commercial property finance
• Infrastructure & projects
• Commercial leasing
• Acquisition & sale
• Due diligence

Contact: Scott Ratuki

Tel:+64 7 838 6002 

Email: [email protected]

Corporate & Commerical: 13 partners; 29 fee earners based in Hamilton, Auckland and Tauranga

• Banking & finance
• Corporate advisory
• Corporate structuring/restructuring
• Cross border transactions
• Life sciences
• Mergers & acquisitions
• Overseas investment
• Privacy act
• Medical & health
• Construction
• Data privacy law

Contact: Mark Renner

Tel:+64 7 838 6050 

Email: [email protected]

Dispute Resolution & Litigation: 10 partners; 44 fee earners based in Hamilton, Auckland, Rotorua and Tauranga

• Commercial & property disputes
• Contract disputes
• Defamation
• Privacy act
• Civil litigation
• Debt recovery
• Insolvency
• Mediation

Contact: James MacGillivray / Kate Cornegé

Tel:+64 7 838 6001 / +64 7 838 6053

Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Employment: 3 partners; 12 fee earners based in Hamilton, Auckland and Rotorua

• Employment disputes
• Personal grievances
• Serious misconduct
• Workplace health & safety
• Employment contracts
• Redundancies & dismissals

Contact: Mark Hammond

Tel:+64 7 838 6014 

Email: [email protected]

Environmental & Resource Management: 2 Partners; 7 fee earners based in Hamilton, Auckland, Tauranga and Rotorua

• Resource consents
• Plan changes
• Due diligence
• Judicial review
• Urban planning & development

Contact: Theresa Le Bas

Tel:+64 7 838 6009 

Email: [email protected]

Property & Real Estate: 9 Partners; 25 fee earners based in Hamilton, Auckland, Tauranga and Rotorua

• Refinancing and restructuring
• Property development
• Portfolio leasing
• Local government property
• Subdivisions and property development
• Acquisition and sale

Contact: Peter Duncan

Tel:+64 7 838 6029 

Email: [email protected]

Offices

Auckland 

Shortland & Fort Building

Level 17

88 Shortland Street

Auckland 1010

Ph: +64 9 558 0699

Hamilton 

Westpac House

Level 8

430 Victoria Street

Hamilton 3204

Ph: +64 7 839 4771

Rotorua 

1105 Arawa Street

Rotorua 3010

Ph: +64 7 347 9466

Tauranga 

44 Brown Street

Tauranga 3110

Ph: +64 7 578 5033

All offices general email: [email protected]