Tompkins Wake

Tompkins Wake is one of New Zealand's leading full-service commercial law firms. Named New Zealand Mid-Size Law Firm of the Year at the NZ Law Awards in 2019, 2020, and 2021, the firm has also been ranked as a Leading Law Firm in the Asia Pacific by The Legal 500 every year since 2018.

We work with a focus on building long-term relationships and trust, providing strategic advice to create and grow value for our clients. 

Tompkins Wake has built significant capability and resources to position itself as a leading nationally focused law firm, globally connected as the New Zealand member of the elite global law network MultiLaw.

Located in Hamilton, Auckland, Rotorua, and Tauranga with more than 170 staff, we are the law firm that clients turn to for help on the matters most important to them.

We use our collective knowledge and expertise and we gain immense satisfaction from working together to develop solutions to the complex and sophisticated challenges our clients present.  

Through the diversity of our team, our advice and counsel are enhanced. Our people’s backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and skills fuel fresh thinking, new ideas, unique perspectives, and insights allowing us to continually develop new and better solutions.

We strive to make a tangible and positive difference to the communities we serve and to New Zealand through the work we do for our clients, the value we contribute through our pro bono work and other charitable and community-focused support, and by being a  responsible and ethical business.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” 
Aristotle