Leading New Zealand law firm, Russell McVeagh, has been named 'Regional Firm of the Year' (Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa) at Global Competition Review's 14th Annual Awards ceremony held in Washington, D.C., earlier this week. This is the first time a New Zealand law firm has won this prestigious award, with the team having been named as the only New Zealand firm recognised as an awards finalist for the last three years.
This award recognises the firm's market-leading Competition team, led by partners Troy Pilkington, Petra Carey and Bradley Aburn, for having had an outstandingly successful 2023 in terms of the quality and quantity of its competition work.
This award win follows on from the firm being named 'New Zealand Large Law Firm of the Year' at the New Zealand Law Awards 2023 in November, and the firm's Competition team being highlighted as preeminent in New Zealand in leading independent legal guides, with "Band 1" by Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific 2024, "Tier 1" by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2024, and "Elite" by Global Competition Review's GCR 100 2024 rankings.
The team has significant expertise across market studies, litigation, investigations, commercial advisory, merger filings, and law reform, and is noted by clients for its seamless, forward-thinking, expert, and strategic advice, receiving client feedback including:
"The Russell McVeagh Competition Law team’s industry expertise is unmatched and their ability to be fully across any issues or guidance that relates to our business has been hugely valuable."
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
"Broad and deep expertise in the area, and committed to achieving client’s goals, including by pulling together other resources as appropriate to achieve them."
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
"Russell McVeagh's client service is excellent. They are uniformly good across the firm and make sure that you are well looked after as a client. It's a super high-quality service."
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
"Russell McVeagh has an extremely knowledgeable team of experts. They are trusted advisers on key pieces of legislation that impact the business."
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
In addition to the team's top rankings they are also individually ranked across the spectrum of top legal guides and have been recognised for their work across other recent award wins, including:
- Troy being the exclusive winner of the Lexology Client Choice Awards for Competition Law in New Zealand in 2023 (an award he has won for the fourth time);
- Bradley being named Young Private Practice Lawyer of the Year at the 2023 New Zealand Law Awards; and
- Petra named by Who's Who Legal as a Future Leader for Competition.
You can read more about the team's expertise here.