Andile Makaringe

Andile is an associate in the Trade Mark Litigation Department in Pretoria. She served her articles at Adams & Adams after attaining her Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) with distinction at the University of Pretoria in 2022. She assists in a broad range of litigious intellectual property matters in South Africa, and throughout Africa.

Keorapetse Mahlangu

Keoraptse is a junior attorney practicing in intellectual property law, with a specific focus on trade mark enforcement.

Rebone Setati

Rebone Setati is a Senior Associate in the trade mark litigation department. She attained her B.Com (Law) and LLB degree from the University of Pretoria. Rebone specialises in trade mark litigation, particularly, trade mark infringement, company name objections, domain name disputes, passing-off, unlawful competition, and related subjects.

Whitney Lee Govender-Williams

Michael is an associate in the Commercial, Property and Litigation department in Pretoria. He is a litigation attorney, practicing as such in Road Accident Fund claims, Medical Malpractice, Professional Negligence, Unlawful arrest and detention, as well as other Personal Injury Claims.

Jani Cronjé

Jani Cronjé is a partner in the firm’s Trade Mark Litigation department. She specialises in trade mark oppositions and cancellations, trade mark infringement and passing-off disputes, domain name complaints, ASA complaints and copyright infringement matters.

Werina Griffiths

Ms Griffiths started her career in the firm’s Commercial Property and Litigation Department before joining the Trade Mark Litigation Department.

Gérard du Plessis

Gérard du Plessis is a senior partner of the firm and has served as the Chairman of Adams & Adams from 2013 to date. Prior to that he also served for a number of years as Trade Mark Department Co-Chairman(litigation).

Nicole Haworth

Nicole Haworth is a Senior Associate at Adams & Adams and obtained her LLB degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2009 and her LLM degree from the University of Pretoria in 2015.

Jenny Pienaar

Jenny is a partner in the Adams & Adams Trade mark Department. Her areas of practice include trade mark litigation, domain name registration and securing domains from unlawful proprietors, as well as litigation relating to copyright, passing-off, unlawful competition, company name objections and related issues.

Esmé van Rooyen

Esmé is a qualified attorney and trade mark practitioner specialising in trade mark prosecution matter. Esmé has also been involved in trade mark litigation relating to trade marks, copyright, passing-off, domain name disputes, company name objections and advertising and regulatory issues in South Africa.