LAWYER PROFILE

Matt Sumpter

Asia-Pacific 2026

Chapman Tripp

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Intellectual Property

New Zealand

16 years ranked

Competition/Antitrust

New Zealand

12 years ranked

About

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Asia-Pacific

Career

Matt is a senior litigation partner with widely respected expertise in competition law, intellectual property and commercial dispute resolution. He is the author of New Zealand’s principal antitrust textbook, New Zealand Competition Law and Policy, and writes for a range of common law legal journals.

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Chambers Asia & Pacific

Intellectual Property - New Zealand

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Matt Sumpter is a highly respected practitioner with particularly noteworthy litigation experience who advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious IP matters. He is regularly instructed on a range of trade mark, copyright and patent matters, including infringement, opposition, internet piracy and site-blocking, and also advises extensively on regulatory and commercialisation issues.

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Competition/Antitrust - New Zealand

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Matt Sumpter is a published authority on competition law who acts principally on contentious issues in the space, including criminal matters, though he is also an experienced handler of merger control negotiations with the Commerce Commission. He is based in Auckland.

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