Wade Turner

General Counsel, dentsu ANZ

Wade is our Deputy General Counsel for Australia and New Zealand.  With more than 18 years’ experience across media, corporate, commercial, contracts, procurement law, Wade partners with all parts of our business to provide practical, corporate and commercial legal support and strategic advice.  He has worked as a trusted advisor to dentsu since 2015, originally joining the dentsu International head office in London to lead our Global Clients legal team and our media service line.  Since returning to New Zealand in 2018, Wade has developed a deep knowledge of all of our service lines and agencies and is an industry specialist having worked across agency and in-house. He sits on our APAC Legal & Compliance leadership team, and forms part of the ANZ Executive team. 

The dentsu ANZ legal team operates from our Melbourne and Auckland offices, and Wade leads the team from our Auckland office.

Wade Turner