Abenry & Company Advocates

Abenry & Company Advocates legal partnership started in year 2006 as Abenry & Company, Advocates. In year 2010 the firm merged with Ringo & Associates to form Adept Chambers. In January 2012, the legal fraternity saw the rebirth of Abenry & Company, Advocates. Since commencing business, the partners, consultants and other associates of Abenry & Company Advocates have worked on numerous legal issues.

The Firm comprises of 3 partners, one consultant and 5 associates. The background experience of its members allows Abenry to offer the best legal services in the country in all aspects of law. Abenry operates in Mainland Tanzania as well as in Tanzania Zanzibar.

Our team of lawyers has over the years been involved in a number of corporate trans-actions, real estate transactions, intellectual property matters, capital market transactions, Private Public Partnership Projects, privatization projects, corporate restructuring and general advisory work. The Members have the requisite competency, knowledge, ability, and skill in handling legal matters.

Abenry offers services in all areas of Intellectual Property law and related fields in all East African countries. The firm advises on the protection and exploitation of intellectual property, including assignment and licensing of intellectual property rights. The firm is a member of the International Trademark Association( INTA), Abenry therefore assists in a range of issues including:

Protecting rights including trademarks, copyright, patents, designs,
confidential information and trade secrets
Brand protection
Preventative advice with the aim of avoiding infringement
Monetising and commercialising IP
Securing IP rights
Unlocking the value of IP
Managing intellectual property
Intellectual property audits
Searches of trademarks registers to detect potential infringement and
obstacles to registration;
Monitoring the trade mark registers to ensure registered rights are not prejudiced
Pursuing and contesting oppositions to applications and Trade mark portfolio management: a service that takes in renewals and monitoring of new applications that should not co-exist on a trade mark register.