Tompkins Wake
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Leading firm in Asia-Pacific 2026
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Tompkins Wake is one of New Zealand's leading full-service law firms, with 29 partners and approximately 120 lawyers across offices in Hamilton, Auckland, Tauranga, and Rotorua. The firm advises major businesses, iwi organisations, infrastructure providers, and public sector bodies across corporate and commercial, banking and finance, property, construction, employment, dispute resolution, environment, and Māori business law.
Work & experience
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Tompkins Wake delivers technically precise, commercially grounded advice across corporate, commercial, regulatory, and contentious law. Four upper North Island offices provide an unmatched regional footprint, connecting clients to a full-service national practice with genuine sector depth across agribusiness, renewable energy, infrastructure, life sciences, and local government. The firm regularly advises on matters of national significance alongside New Zealand's largest practices.
Notable work
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Obayashi Corporation — Renewable Energy Acquisition
Advised Nikkei 225-listed Obayashi on acquiring 50% of Eastland Generation -geothermal, hydropower and solar assets.
New Zealand College of Midwives - Class Action v Ministry of Health
Acting for 1,450 midwives in a class action against the Ministry of Health raising novel Crown law issues.
Juicy Festival - Insolvency Proceeding
Acting for liquidators in a landmark proceeding testing global payment chargeback rules conflict with NZ insolvency law.
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New Zealand - Head office
Marlborough
Westpac House, Level 8 430 Victoria Street, Waikato , Hamilton, Marlborough, New Zealand, 3204, Hamilton
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Auckland
Level 17, Shortland & Fort, 88 Shortland Street, Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand, 1140, Auckland City
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1922
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