2025 winners

Congratulations to all of our 2025 Client Choice Award Winners

Accounting & consulting services

Accounting & consulting services

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Major Partner

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Accounting & consulting services

Best Accounting & Consulting Services Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Lucas and Co
Finalists: Cathro & Partners; Mapien Workplace Strategists; Tilenni Stiles & Associates

Best Accounting & Consulting Services Firm ($30-$100m revenue):
Winner: Accru
Finalists: SW Accountants & Advisors; Vincents

Best Accounting & Consulting Services Firm ($100-$200m revenue):
Winner: HLB Mann Judd
Finalists: KordaMentha; McGrathNicol

Best Accounting & Consulting Services Firm (>$200m revenue):
Winner: RSM
Finalists: BDO; Grant Thornton

Accounting & consulting services specialists

Accounting & consulting services specialists

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Accounting & consulting services specialists​

Best Bookkeeping & Payroll Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Tailored Accounts

Best Business Advice Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: McKinley Plowman

Best HR Consulting Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Mapien Workplace Strategists

Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Cathro & Partners

Best Management Consulting Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Morrison Low

Best Self Managed Super Fund Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Tilenni Stiles & Associates

Best Tax Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Tilenni Stiles & Associates

Built & natural environment consulting

Built & natural environment consulting

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Built & natural environment consulting

Best Built & Natural Environment Consulting Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: MCG Quantity Surveyors
Finalists: Collective Engineering; EI Australia; Element Environment

Best Built & Natural Environment Consulting Firm ($30-$100m revenue):
Winner: EMM Consulting
Finalists: ATC Williams; Ethos Urban; Pattle Delamore Partners

Best Built & Natural Environment Consulting Firm ($100-$200m revenue):
Winner: Douglas Partners and Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec
Finalists: BG&E; Tetra Tech Coffey; Urbis

Best Built & Natural Environment Consulting Firm (>$200m revenue):
Winner: Arup
Finalists: Aurecon; SMEC; Tonkin + Taylor

Built & natural environment consulting specialists

Built & natural environment consulting specialists

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Built & natural environment consulting specialists

Best Acoustical Consulting Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Marshall Day Acoustics

Best Architecture Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: ArtMade Architects

Best Consulting Engineering Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Wilkinson Shaw & Associates

Best Consulting Surveying Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Barker Ryan Stewart

Best Environmental Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Element Environment

Best Heritage Consulting Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: GML Heritage

Best Planning Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Barker Ryan Stewart

Best Quantity Surveying Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: MCG Quantity Surveyors

Best Traffic & Transport Consulting Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: SCT Consulting

Law & related services


Law & related services

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Law & related services

Best Law & Related Services Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Sandpiper Immigration Lawyers
Finalists: Denways Legal; Garling and Co Lawyers; TM Conveyancing

Best Australian Law Firm ($30-$100m revenue):
Winner: Cooper Grace Ward
Finalists: Kingston Reid; Russell Kennedy

Best Australian Law Firm ($100-$200m revenue):
Winner: Johnson Winter Slattery
Finalists: K&L Gates; Lander & Rogers; Wotton + Kearney

Best Australian Law Firm (>$200m revenue):
Winner: Gilbert + Tobin and Hall & Wilcox
Finalists: Allens; King & Wood Mallesons; Maddocks

Best New Zealand Law Firm (>$30m revenue):
Winner: DLA Piper
Finalists: Buddle Findlay; Duncan Cotterill; MinterEllisonRuddWatts

Law & related services specialists

Law & related services specialists

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Law & related services specialists

Best Banking, Finance & Insurance Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Denways Legal

Best Commercial & Business Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: BDC Law

Best Conveyancing Firm (<$30m revenue): TM Conveyancing Services

Best Employment & Industrial Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Remotely Legal

Best Immigration Law Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Sandpiper Immigration Lawyers

Best Personal Injury Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Garling and Co Lawyers

Best Wills & Estates Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: Denways Legal

Specialist IP & related services

Specialist IP & related services

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Specialist IP & related services

Best Specialist IP & Related Services Firm (<$20m revenue):
Winner: MBIP

Best Specialist IP & Related Services Firm (>$20m revenue):
Winner: FB Rice
Finalists: Davies Collison Cave; Griffith Hack; Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick; Spruson & Ferguson

Overall awards

Overall awards

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Overall awards

Best Professional Services Firm (<$30m revenue):
Winner: MCG Quantity Surveyors

Best Professional Services Firm ($30-$100m revenue):
Winner: Cooper Grace Ward

Best Professional Services Firm ($100-$200m revenue):
Winner: Johnson Winter Slattery

Best Professional Services Firm (>$200m revenue):
Winner: Arup

Industry awards

Industry awards

Principal Partner

Major Partner

Industry awards

Best Provider to Construction & Infrastructure (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Douglas Partners
Finalists: ACOR; Holmes; Urbis

Best Provider to Financial & Insurance Services (>$30m revenue):
Winner: SW Accountants & Advisors
Finalists: Dentons New Zealand; HLB Mann Judd; RSM

Best Provider to Government & Community (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Accru
Finalists: Ethos Urban; Lander & Rogers; Pattle Delamore Partners; SW Accountants & Advisors

Best Provider to Mining, Oil & Gas (>$30m revenue):
Winner: ATC Williams
Finalists: Allens; BDO; Gilbert + Tobin; Stantec

Best Provider to Power & Utilities (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Stantec
Finalists: Gilbert + Tobin; Herbert Smith Freehills; King & Wood Mallesons; SMEC

Best Provider to Property (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Lander & Rogers
Finalists: Douglas Partners; Ethos Urban; Urbis

Innovation awards

Innovation awards

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Major Partner

Innovation awards

Most Innovative Accounting & Consulting Services Firm (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Accru
Finalists: HLB Mann Judd; RSM; SW Accountants & Advisors

Most Innovative Built & Natural Environment Consulting Firm (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Ethos Urban
Finalists: Arup; ATC Williams; EMM Consulting; Pattle Delamore Partners

Most Innovative Law & Related Services Firm (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Cooper Grace Ward
Finalists: Gilbert + Tobin; Sparke Helmore

Most Innovative Specialist IP & Related Services Firm (>$20m revenue):
Winner: FB Rice
Finalists: Davies Collison Cave; Spruson & Ferguson

ESG awards

ESG awards

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Major Partner

ESG awards

Best Provider of ESG Services: Accounting & Consulting Services (>$30m revenue):
Winner: RSM
Finalists: BDO; Grant Thornton

Best Provider of ESG Services: Built & Natural Environment Consulting (>$30m revenue):
Winner: EMM Consulting
Finalists: Beca; BG&E; Tonkin + Taylor; Urbis

Best Provider of ESG Services: Law & Related Services (>$30m revenue):
Winner: Gilbert + Tobin
Finalists: Allens; Herbert Smith Freehills; Norton Rose Fulbright

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Please note the Client Choice Awards does not host a presentation dinner in person. We receive entries from across Australia and New Zealand, and feel a more inclusive way of celebrating winners and finalists is to communicate award announcements online for everyone to share.

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