Hayden helps organisations and individuals solve complex disputes.

He is a partner of Kensington Swan and leads the Wellington Litigation and Government and regulatory teams. He is the vice-chair of the Resolution Institute, the leading membership organisation for dispute resolution in Australasia.



Hayden trained as a mediator through the Resolution Institute in New Zealand, and at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University in California. He has recently studied at Harvard University, completing the Advanced Mediation: Mediating Complex Disputes programme.



Hayden has extensive experience as a litigator dealing with complex commercial and public law disputes and has appeared as counsel in the Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court and a range of tribunals.



Building on that experience Hayden works as a mediator specialising in the solution of complex commercial, public law and employment disputes.