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 Adams & Adams has been ranked second as ideal employer by South African law graduates in the recently released Magnet Communication survey for 2008. The firm was also voted as one of the top 20 ideal employers by graduates in the humanities category (including BA graduates). |
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Adams & Adams is well represented in the 2009 edition of the International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers and the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, with three partners – Brett Oldridge, Chris Job, and Simon Brown - listed in both these publications. Brett Oldridge, a trade mark attorney, specialises in trade mark filings, searches and prosecutions and is a fellow of the South Africa Institute of Intellectual Property Law. Brett is a member of International Trademark Association (INTA) and International Federation of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). He is also a member of Inter American Association of Industrial Property (ASIPI), and the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA). |
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 Another historic moment to end off the historic Centenary year of Adams & Adams: the signing of a cooperation agreement between the firm and the University of Pretoria which, like Adams & Adams, celebrated its Centenary this year. |
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 Adams & Adams has been rated South Africa’s top intellectual property law firm for 2008 by Professional Management Review Africa (PMR) magazine. This earns Adams & Adams the PMR Golden Arrow award. |
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 Adams & Adams was voted the Best Intellectual Property Practice in Africa for 2008 by the international publication New Economy. New Economy Editor Jan Spiegel says award-giving bodies usually identify the world’s leading legal firms by criteria such as depth of practice, size of firm, international links and reputation. “This, however, can skew the awards in favour of larger firms with global networks, leaving the excellent acquisition work of smaller, nationally based firms such as Adams & Adams unrecognised. |
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 Adams & Adams has appointed Stuart Boyd as chief operating officer. Boyd, who is a chartered accountant, has consulted to the office of the Auditor General since 2007, implementing financial management improvements. Before that he was with Nedbank where he held various executive positions, including a secondment at Swisscard, a joint venture between American Express and Credit Suisse, in Switzerland. |
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 Adams & Adams has appointed five new partners, Ferdi Myburg, Dale Healy, Mandy Gordon, James Davies and Kgabo Serokolo. Myburg joined the firm in 1986 in the Trade Mark Department, where he is responsible for the maintenance of trade marks and oversees the trade mark renewal section. He specialises in the post-registration of trade marks such as renewals and assignments. He holds a BLC LLB degree. |
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 Today, Friday, 8 August 2008, Adams & Adams celebrates its Centenary. Please download our centenary brochure here. The firm, which was started by Harry Adams in Bureau Lane, Pretoria, in 1908, has grown in stature and reputation to become the largest intellectual property law firm in South Africa, strongly supported by our commercial, civil litigation and property law departments. |
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 Garnett, who manages the Africa Patents Department, has extensive experience in the field of intellectual property, including the filing and prosecution of trade mark, patent and design applications, trade mark and copyright litigation, and the negotiating and drafting of licensing agreements. |
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 We are pleased to announce the opening of Adams & Adams Mozambique, in the capital, Maputo. The office, headed by partners Élio Teixeira and Carlos Martins, is now in operation. The extension of Adams & Adams practice to Mozambique has been done to improve and enhance the intellectual property law services we offer to our clients in Africa. |
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 Adams & Adams has been verified as a level five broad-based black economic empowerment company by the authoritative Empowerdex Trust. The verification deems Adams & Adams as a generic enterprise with a B-BBEE procurement recognition of 80%. It is deemed 2.2% black-owned and 1.1% owned by black women. |
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 Four Adams & Adams partners are listed in the 2008 edition of the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. Brett Oldridge is mentioned as a highly regarded individual under the trade marks section. He also received a special mention for his portfolio management work. Brett specialises in trade mark filings, searches and prosecutions and is a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law. |
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A company formed by partners may be wound up under the “just and equitable” provision, where circumstances which would justify dissolution of a partnership exist. This is what the Supreme Court of Appeal held in the matter of Apco Africa v Apco Worldwide in a judgement delivered on 29 May 2008 under case number 372/2007. |
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 Chris Job is back in the chairman’s seat of city law firm Adams & Adams, which this year celebrates 100 years (Zelda Venter, Pretoria News). Download PDF. |
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 Adams & Adams has been acknowledged as a leading firm in the 2008 edition of the Practical Law Company’s annual publication, Which Lawyer. The company is the United Kingdom’s primary provider of legal know-how, transactional analysis and market intelligence for business lawyers. The publication notes that Adams & Adams has the largest intellectual property law practice in South Africa and lists chairman Chris Job as one of the countries’ leading practitioners in the field, with Alan Smith and Gerard du Plessis listed as highly recommended. Partners Dario Tanziani and Marilyn Krige are identified as recommended practitioners. |
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The firm practises directly in several Southern African countries and through long-established associates in others.
