The following list shows New Zealand lawyers who are rated in the top two bands in the Chambers & Partners 2016 ratings for Asia-Pacific.
The ratings of law firms and lawyers cover 41 jurisdictions and 20 specialist areas of law.
English-based Chambers ranks lawyers and law firms on several factors and considerations, using a large team of researchers. It says law firm rankings relate to a department of the firm, not to the firm as a whole.
Firms and lawyers are ranked in six bands from 1 to 6, with 1 being the best.
New Zealand lawyers who are given a star rating or included in bands 1 and 2 are as follows:
Area | Special Ranking | Band 1 | Band 2 |
Banking | (Star) | Geoff Busch | Peter Eady |
and | Dave Wetherell | Murray King | Tom Fail |
Finance | Guy Lethbridge | Andrew Harkness | |
David McPherson | Kate Lane | ||
Peter Owles | Mei Nah | ||
Ross Pennington | Will Tipping | ||
Mark Reese | |||
Dermott Ross | |||
Competition/ | (Senior Statesmen) | Neil Anderson | Anne Callinan |
Antitrust | Grant David | Torrin Crowther | James Craig |
Phil Taylor | Sarah Keene | Tony Dellow | |
Andrew Matthews | Mark Toner | ||
Construction | Paul Bluetow | Stephen Price | |
Graeme Christie | Michael Weatherall | ||
Brian Clayton | |||
Mark Crosbie | |||
John McKay | |||
Corporate/ | (Senior Statesman) | James Gibson | Grant Dunn |
Commercial | Pat Bowler | Brynn Gilbertson | Greg Horton |
(Eminent Practitioner) | Pip Greenwood | Graeme Quigley | |
Peter Hinton | Andrew Harmos | Silvana Schenone | |
(Star Individuals) | Cathy Quinn | Garth Sinclair | |
Gavin Macdonald | Roger Wallis | Tim Tubman | |
John Strowger | Joe Windmeyer | ||
Martin Wiseman | |||
Dispute | David Cooper | Allison Ferguson | |
Resolution | Pheroze Jagose | Sally Fitzgerald | |
Richard Lange | Stephen Hunter | ||
Zane Kennedy | |||
John McKay | |||
Laura O'Gorman | |||
Bruce Scott | |||
Dispute | James Farmer QC | Andrew Brown QC | |
Resolution | Allan Galbraith QC | Miriam Dean QC | |
(The Bar) | David Goddard QC | Bruce Gray QC | |
Jack Hodder QC | Julian Miles QC | ||
Michael Ring QC | Bruce Stewart QC | ||
Tom Weston QC | |||
Employment | Richard McIlraith | Kathryn Beck | |
Phillipa Muir | Andrew Caisley | ||
Rob Towner | Peter Chemis | ||
Susan Hornsby-Geluk | |||
Peter Kiely | |||
Stephen Langton | |||
Don Mackinnon | |||
Penny Swarbrick | |||
Energy & | David Coull | Garry Downs | |
Natural | Chris Gordon | Paul Foley | |
Resources | Brigid McArthur | ||
Sarah Sinclair | |||
Dave Trueman | |||
Environment & | Andrew Beatson | Paul Beverley | |
Resource | Bal Matheson | Karen Price | |
Management | |||
Insurance | Grant Macdonald | Andrea Challis | |
Crossley Gates | |||
John Knight | |||
Intellectual | Mark Gavin | Alan Ringwood | |
Property | John Glengarry | Matt Sumpter | |
Earl Gray | Richard Watts | ||
John Hackett | Christopher Young | ||
Alan Potter | |||
Investment | Catriona Grover | Sue Brown | |
Funds | David Ireland | Tracey Cross | |
Lloyd Kavanagh | Jeremy Muir | ||
Alasdair McBeth | Rachel Paris | ||
Rachel Taylor | Haydn Wong | ||
Tim Williams | |||
Mike Woodbury | |||
Public Law | Tim Clarke | Chris Browne | |
Tony Dellow | Mai Chen | ||
Andy Nicholls | Stephen Franks | ||
Simon Watt | Alastair Hercus | ||
Bill Loutit | |||
Padraig McNamara | |||
Jonathan Salter | |||
Real Estate | Jane Holland | David Butler | |
Andrew Petersen | Matt Carroll | ||
Bill Sandston | Ed Crook | ||
Greg Thompson | John Greenwood | ||
Greg Towers | Justin March | ||
Andrew Monteith | |||
Chris Moore | |||
Alan Paterson | |||
Restructuring | Michael Arthur | Sean Gollin | |
Insolvency | Steve Flynn | Matthew Kersey | |
Michael Harper | Michael Langdon | ||
David Perry | David McPherson | ||
Murray Tingey | Michael Robinson | ||
Mike Whale | Justin Toebes | ||
Shipping | Neil Beadle | Pauline Barratt | |
Matthew Flynn | Alan Sherlock | ||
Michael McCarthy | Karl Stolberger | ||
Barbara Versfelt | |||
Tax | Brendan Brown | Mathew McKay | |
Willy Sussman | David Patterson | ||
Fred Ward | Neil Russ | ||
Tony Wilkinson | |||
Tax Bar | Lindsay McKay | Geoffrey Clews | |
Geoff Harley | |||
Mike Lennard | |||
Technology, | (Senior Statesman) | Simon Martin | David Clarke |
Media, | Ross Patterson | Dean Oppenhuis | Ross Johnston |
Telecoms | Michael Sage | Corin Maberly | |
Malcolm Webb | John McCay | ||
Philip Wood | Karen Ngan |
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