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Top 25 Business law firms based in New Zealand
RevenueBase identified 345 business law firms headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 5,537 professional contacts across them, including 3,554 with verified work emails and 76 with mobile numbers. Auckland is the largest hub.
This list covers business law firms headquartered in New Zealand, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest business law firms based in New Zealand
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 395 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We relish our position and reputation as an innovative and leading law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bell Gully is independently recognised as New Zealand’s leading commercial law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a leading New Zealand law firm focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tompkins Wake is one of New Zealand's leading full-service commercial law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Lane Neave we thrive on making complex issues simple for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WHEN YOU’RE MAKING KEY DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS, YOUR ASSETS, OR YOUR FUTURE DIRECTION – WYNN WILLIAMS WILL ACT AS YOUR TRUSTED LEGAL ADVISER.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “McVeagh Fleming is a full-service law firm with a legacy of more than 100 years advising clients across Auckland and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Holland Beckett is a leading, full service law firm based in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hesketh Henry is a premium sector specialist law firm with the expertise to meet the needs of private and commercial clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gibson Sheat is a full-service commercial law firm with offices in Wellington, Lower Hutt and Masterton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cavell Leitch is a Christchurch based law firm that is here to help our clients, not make it harder.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Parry Field Lawyers is a growing full-service law firm with offices in Christchurch CBD, Riccarton, Rolleston, Hokitika, and Auckland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “If you want a reputable, well-established corporate/commercial law firm to act for you and your business, talk to Martelli McKegg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “There is a marked difference in the way Greenwood Roche operates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Getting straight to the point through expertise, experience and understanding.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Corcoran French is a full-service general practice law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Norris Ward McKinnon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Saunders & Co is a full service law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1907, Glaister Ennor has been a cornerstone of Auckland’s legal community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a full service law firm, providing our clients with expertise across the breadth of legal disciplines including commercial, litigation, employment, property, trusts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mayne Wetherell is a leading commercial law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WRMK Lawyers is Northland's largest law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're on the shore, and we're on your side.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Legal Solutions is a law firm specialising in Commercial, Family, Business, Employment, Property and Rural Law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harkness Henry provides a wide range of specialist legal advice, including civil and commercial litigation, commercial, employment, estate, trusts, property, resource management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: business law firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names business law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of business law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name business law firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Business law firms based in New Zealand at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked
Email last verified
Median 22.0dCompany record updated
Median 81.0dHow this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business law firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in New Zealand whose own description of what they do matches “business law firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names business law firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among business law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside New Zealand are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,554 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Business law firms by metro
- Business law firms in Auckland139
- Business law firms in Christchurch28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names business law firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many business law firms are there based in New Zealand?
RevenueBase identified 345 business law firms headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Chapman Tripp, headquartered in Auckland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most business law firms?
Auckland leads with 139 headquartered companies, followed by Christchurch (28) and Wellington (23).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,554 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 345 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.