Major practice areas include corporate, financial services, property, tax and litigation, and the firm is capable of acting on large and complex commercial matters.

Bell Gully is certified with the Rainbow Tick[4] and is a signatory of the New Zealand Law Society's Gender Equality Charter.

[8] Examples of the organisations Bell Gully supports include the Auckland and Wellington City Missions, Shine, Plunket, Habitat for Humanity and KidsCan.

The firm holds top-tier Chambers rankings[10] across Banking & Finance, Competition/Antitrust, Corporate/Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy & Natural Resources, Public Law, Real Estate and Tax.

Bell Gully is the only New Zealand law firm to have a partner ranked in Chambers Global[11] as a leading lawyer for climate change work.