“A brand for a company is like reputation for a person, you need to keep trying to do hard things well.”
– Jeff Bezos
De Beer Attorneys is ranked in the top band in the latest editions of leading legal directories, both local and international, including Managing Intellectual Property, The Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, and others.
These legal directories and associated rankings are based exclusively on the assessment of lawyers at peer firms and the feedback provided by a firm’s clients. In such a review, more than 20,000 associates rate the reputations of firms other than their one, so as to provide an impartial ranking of law firms within a particular sector.
If our competitors and clients value us this highly, then we must be doing something right.
IAM Patent 1000, a highly acclaimed international ratings agency, provided the following review of our firm, in their 2021 rankings:
“De Beer Attorneys has a long list of high-flying clients that have been flourishing under the care of managing director Elaine Bergenthuin. The practice has been growing on both the contentious/non-contentious fronts. Electronic engineer Bergenthuin brings valuable in-house insight to the table, having spent several years at a multinational information and communications technology company; coupled with a stint at a prominent London patent attorney firm, this guarantees a cosmopolitan, big-picture approach.”
The IAM Patent 1000 had the following to say about De Beer Attorneys in their 2020 rankings:
“De Beer Attorneys has been building out its capacity in recent years and now boasts a mature and strategically sophisticated practice that spans the contentious/non-contentious divide. The organisation is run by Elaine Bergenthuin, a commercially astute IP professional with a gift for delivering innovative solutions customised to fit clients’ business needs. Having previously worked at a leading London patent attorney firm, she has a long track record of satisfying the demands of top-tier multinationals.“
De Beer Attorneys is also a proud member of the following professional local and international institutions:
• SAIIPL – South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (Fellow)
• FICPI – Federation International des Conseils en Propriete Industrielle
• AIPPI – International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
• INTA – International Trademark Association
Cape Town
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Johannesburg
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