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Hans-Bruno Gerdes

Position: Consultant
(former Managing Partner)

Telephone: + 264 (0) 61 38 3301
Email: hgerdes@englinglaw.com.na

Key Practice Areas

Career

​Commercial:

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  • Competition & antitrust

  • Contract

  • Corporate & commercial

  • Intellectual property

Advises on:

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  • Preparing and submitting merger approval applications to the Competition Commission

  • Merger control compliance advice

  • Cartel investigations

  • Abuse of dominance complaints

  • Market investigations

  • Complaints relating to anti-competitive conduct

  • Competition law due diligence investigations and audits

  • General advice on compliance with local competition laws

  • Drafting and settling of contracts

  • Regulatory advice

  • Licensing and regulation of investment funds and investment management companies and regulatory issues relating to their operation

  • Advising on financial services legislation affecting investment management companies and funds

  • General matters of interest to investment management businesses including acquisitions, outsourcing, legal due diligence, intellectual property and corporate commercial issues

  • Registration, transfer and licensing of IP rights (including copyrights, trade marks and patents) and matters incidental thereto

  • B Proc (University of Cape Town)

  • Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (1980)

  • Admitted Legal Practitioner in Namibia (1985)

  • Member of the Law Society of Namibia

Professional involvement: 

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  • Director of the Institute for Management and Leadership Training (1990-2000)

  • Director of the Namibia Institute for Democracy (1990-2002)

  • President of the Law Society of Namibia (1997/1998)

  • Vice-President of the Law Society of Namibia (1993/1994, 1994/1995, 1995/1996)

  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Law Society of Namibia (1995-2001)

  • Member of the Council of the Law Society of Namibia (1992-2001)

  • Convenor of Standing Committee on Intellectual Property of Law Society of Namibia (1990-2007)

  • Convenor of Standing Committee of High Court Matters of Law Society of Namibia (1990-2000)

  • Member of Standing Committee on Taxation (1990-2004)

  • Member of Standing Committee on Commercial Law (1990-2007)

Extra professional appointments:

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  • Chairperson of the Body Corporate of Namlex Chambers (1998 to present)

  • Chairperson of the Listings Committee of the Namibia Stock Exchange (2004 to present) (previously ordinary member (1998 to 2003))

  • Chairperson of the Board of Control of the Namibian Legal Practitioners Fidelity Fund (2009 to present) (previously ordinary member (1997-2009))

  • Director of Namibia Breweries Limited (2001 to present)

  • Chairperson of the Audit Committee of Namibia Breweries Limited (2001 to present)

  • Director of Old Mutual Namibia (2013 to present)

  • Director of the Namibian Stock Exchange (2009 to present)

  • Council Member of the International Bar Association representing the Law Society of Namibia (2001 to 2008)

Accolades: 

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  • Commentators to Chambers’ World’s Leading Lawyers readily acknowledge Hans as “the senior statesman of commercial lawyers in Namibia”

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