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Top 25 Commercial litigation lawyers based in New Zealand
RevenueBase identified 41 commercial litigation lawyers headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 482 professional contacts across them, including 306 with verified work emails. Auckland is the largest hub.
This list covers commercial litigation lawyers 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 21, 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 commercial litigation lawyers based in New Zealand
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gibson Sheat is a full-service commercial law firm with offices in Wellington, Lower Hutt and Masterton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Getting straight to the point through expertise, experience and understanding.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hudson Gavin Martin is a corporate and commercial law firm specialising in technology, media and intellectual property.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On 16 October 2020, AJ Park acquired Baldwins.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heaney & Partners is a specialist commercial litigation and dispute resolution practice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wilson Harle is a commercial litigation practice with a broad spectrum of expertise and experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a local law firm who would love to look after you, your business and the small print.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a specialist advisory and dispute resolution law practice with extensive experience as advisors and advocates in complex litigation and regulatory matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are forward thinking New Zealand lawyers specialising in corporate, commercial, and technology law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Burley Castle Hawkins Lawyers are a friendly, highly regarded and well established law firm located in Tauranga and Te Puke, Bay of Plenty New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zone Law provides a full range of intellectual property (IP) and business law services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Grimshaw & Co is a full service litigation firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We specialise in a broad spectrum of legal services across business, commercial, transactional and personal issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McLean Law are litigation specialists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Gurnell Harrison Stanley Law, we understand that legal issues can be daunting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Reid Cooper Gray is a specialist litigation, property and commercial law firm based in Dunedin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Glaister Ennor is a leading full-service commercial law firm with an enviable reputation for delivering premium quality legal services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “United Legal Limited is a specialist litigation and dispute resolution practice based in Auckland, New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Commercial Law Practice” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Resolute Lawyers is a specialist litigation, dispute resolution and trial law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialist litigation and arbitration firm with a core focus on insolvency and construction disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thrive Lawyers is a straight talking, forward thinking, law firm based in Hastings, Hawke's Bay advising on Employment & Insurance law and Civil disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are pragmatic and commercially focused.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2007, our purpose remains to assist our clients- by applying our legal expertise in finding the best solutions for each unique circumstance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: commercial litigation lawyers. 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 commercial litigation lawyers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of commercial litigation lawyers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name commercial litigation lawyers. 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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Commercial litigation lawyers based in New Zealand at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for New Zealand, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for New Zealand, over 41 companies.
How 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 commercial litigation lawyers, 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 “commercial litigation lawyers”. 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 commercial litigation lawyers), 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 commercial litigation lawyers, 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, 306 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 commercial litigation lawyers, 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 commercial litigation lawyers are there based in New Zealand?
RevenueBase identified 41 commercial litigation lawyers 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?
Gibson Sheat Lawyers, headquartered in Wellington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most commercial litigation lawyers?
Auckland leads with 23 headquartered companies, followed by Dunedin (3) and Wellington (2).
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 306 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 41 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 21, 2026.
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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.
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