ADLS Competitors

LexisNexis NZ Limited is a leading business information and software provider to a wide range of professionals who work in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. Formerly known as Butterworths, LexisNexis has served the New Zealand legal market for over 100 years and is one of the largest legal publishers in the country. To further complement our local expertise, we are able to draw on the global resources of our parent company Reed Elsevier. LexisNexis has a presence in more than 100 countries and employs over 15,000 individuals. This means we have access to legal information for numerous jurisdictions around the globe and can tap into resources such as Nexis®, our online aggregator of general news, journal, directories, and company and industry information, with four billion searchable documents from more than 45,000 international sources.

We are a top tier New Zealand full-service law firm known for our excellence, innovation, and specialism. We will work alongside your team to give a one-off opinion or to assist on a regular basis. Our practice includes corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, competition and regulatory issues, finance, real estate, dispute resolution, public law, employment, intellectual property, and taxation. Our teams collaborate to bring our best and brightest skills to bear for the benefit of clients across key industry sectors including Infrastructure, Government, Health, Banking and Financial Services, Managed Funds, Technology, TMT, and Energy & Resource sectors. The firm also provides a seamless, integrated approach for clients in the Asia-Pacific region and more globally. As a member of the Minter Ellison Legal Group, you have access to one of the largest full-service legal groups in the Asia-Pacific region, with more than 290 partners and 900 legal staff worldwide in offices in Auckland and Wellington, Australia, Asia, and the UK. You’ll be able to hand-pick a team of legal experts that fit your business. Our ‘one team’ philosophy means we look at your whole business. So, the legal advice we give you is right for your entire operation. Delivering value through listening to our clients, caring about their business and delivering technically excellent solutions and innovative advice for our clients is at the heart of what we do.

Russell McVeagh is a leading commercial New Zealand law firm, known as the go-to team for tackling complex legal problems. We have over 350 people across our offices in Auckland, Wellington and Te Waipounamu South Island, with the opening of our Queenstown office coming soon in March 2025. We offer our clients a collaborative, seamless approach and support a wide range of clients drawing on our expertise across the full spectrum of corporate advisory, banking and finance, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate and construction, tax, public law and environmental law. Whether you are a major corporate, regulator, investor, public sector, or non-profit organisation, we listen and take the time to develop a deep understanding of our clients' ambitions. We adapt to our client's preferred ways of working and always seek to find solutions that align with their culture and values, and strategic goals. Above all, we aim to provide pragmatic and clear advice. Our firm's values of Manaaki | Respect, Whai hiranga | Excellence, Māhirahira | Curiosity, and Whakapau kaha |Tenacity, are at the heart of our culture and reflect who we are, what we stand for and how we work together.