Adams & Adams
Professional Notice

We proudly represent many of the world’s largest corporations and organisations (240 Fortune 500 companies), as well as small to medium-sized companies, and our 67 partners are established pathfinders and thought leaders in their respective practice areas.

Our intellectual property law practices work with clients around the globe and across many industries to protect, enforce and commercialise their intellectual property. The group offers clients a full range of legal services relating to the acquisition, enforcement and commercialisation of intellectual property rights. These services include counsel and handling of transactions in cases involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs, licensing and data security. The partners and associates in our intellectual property group also litigate these issues in courts across Africa. Adams & Adams is the largest IP firm in Africa and is ranked among the leading intellectual property firms in the world.

Likewise, the firm’s general commercial legal services practices boast competent and powerful teams whose purpose is to represent clients in expertise areas such as commercial and contract law, commercial litigation, property services, public procurement, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, tax, franchising, competition, personal injury, arbitration and dispute resolution, among others. As a leader among law firms involved in commercial services and other corporate transactions, the transactional and litigation experience of our attorneys, the breadth of our practice and the geographical reach of our offices in Africa have allowed us to maintain a competitive leadership position, representing a broad array of public and private companies, private equity firms and financial institutions, governmental entities, and other institutions and individuals in almost every type of commercial law situation.

Our firm is consistently acknowledged by leading global industry bodies and peer-review indices that recognise excellence in global legal practice. Participation in awards and indices allows us to benchmark our performance and gain valuable feedback from third parties.

Through our associate offices and long-established networks, we serve our global client base throughout the African continent in matters of intellectual property, commercial law, property and litigation. Adams & Adams regularly hosts a meeting of partners from associate offices throughout the continent – a network meeting designed to maintain relationships, build capacity and share information about updates on intellectual property and corporate and commercial developments across the continent.

Adams & Adams has offices in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and associate offices in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), the Gambia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Offices

Head Office:

Lynnwood Bridge,

4 Daventry Street, Lynnwood Manor,

Pretoria, South Africa

0081

Branch Offices:

2^nd Floor, Alice Lane 1

34 Fredman Drive (Cnr. 5^th Street), Sandton,

Johannesburg, South Africa

2146

22^nd Floor, 2 Long Street,

Cnr. Long Street and Hans Strijddom Avenue, Foreshore,

Cape Town, South Africa

8000

Suite 2, Level 3, Ridgeside Office Park,

21 Richefond Circle, Umhlanga Ridge

Durban, South Africa

4320