Mr Hayden Wilson > Dentons New Zealand > Wellington, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile
Dentons New Zealand Offices
40 Bowen Street
Pipitea
Wellington 6011
New Zealand
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Mr Hayden Wilson
Work Department
Dispute Resolution, Competition Law, Public Law, Privacy and Cybersecurity
Position
Partner
Career
Hayden leads the Wellington litigation team, specialising in public, regulatory and commercial litigation. He plays a key role in the firm’s relationships with government agencies.
Hayden works across the range of public law disciplines including core administrative public law issues, advice on legislative obligations, and judicial review in the public sector. He helps both public and private sector clients to manage a wide range of public law issues, including managing and reviewing risk, advising on privacy and information law, human rights obligations and regulatory issues.
Hayden is recognised as a leading litigator and a skilled mediator, and boasts extensive experience dealing with complex commercial and public law disputes.
Hayden and his team provide crisis management support and advice in relation to government or regulatory investigations, inquiries or prosecutions.
Languages
English
Memberships
The former vice-chair of the Resolution Institute, the leading membership organisation for dispute resolution in Australasia.
Hayden was a member of the Council of the Wellington District Law Society until 2008 and was a Convenor of a Lawyers Standard Committee for nine years.
Hayden is accredited as a mediator by the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand and by the Resolution Institute.
Member of the Medico-Legal Society.
Member of the Mediation Panel.
Member of the Franchise Association of NZ Mediation Panel.
Member of the New Zealand Dispute Resolution Centre.
Education
Master of Laws, Victoria University of Wellington (2008)
Bachelor of Arts, (Political Science), Victoria University of Wellington (2000)
Bachelor of Laws, Victoria University of Wellington (2000) Admission date: May 2000
Lawyer Rankings
New Zealand > Data protection and cyber security
Commended as ‘very pragmatic’, Dentons New Zealand
is able to draw upon support from the firm’s global IP, public policy, and regulatory teams. Operating out of Auckland, Hayley Miller is focused on cloud technology, e-commerce, and FinTech. In Wellington, Campbell Featherstone handles privacy matters in the privacy sector, and Hayden Wilson is experienced in responses to privacy breaches. In Auckland, Güneş Haksever is knowledgeable of privacy compliance, and Ashleigh Ooi is often engaged in data subject access requests and complaints.
New Zealand > Dispute resolution
(Leading partners)With ‘great international connections’, Dentons New Zealand, operating out of Auckland and Wellington, specialises in regulatory, administrative, infrastructure, and commercial disputes. The firm further advises on corporate, defamation, employment, insolvency, and IP matters. The team is jointly led by David Campbell, a competition and product liability specialist, and Hayden Wilson, an expert public law litigator. James McMillan brings restructuring and insolvency experience, while Patrick Glennie adds debt recovery and professional negligence expertise. Jeremy Bell-Connell is experienced in cross-border matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners New Zealand > Dispute resolution
- Data protection and cyber security New Zealand
- Dispute resolution New Zealand