Contact Details and Information

Powell Gilbert LLP
85 Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 1AE
United Kingdom

T +44 (0)20 3040 8000
E info@powellgilbert.com
W www.powellgilbert.com

Powell Gilbert LLP (German Branch Office)

Powell Gilbert LLP
Königsallee 2b
5th floor
40212 Düsseldorf
Germany

T +49 (0)211 8199 7330
E info@powellgilbert.com
W www.powellgilbert.com

Legal Structure

Powell Gilbert LLP is registered in England and Wales as a Limited Liability Partnership with registered number OC325818.

Powell Gilbert LLP maintains a branch office in Düsseldorf, Germany. The branch office is registered with the Partnership Register of the local court of Essen under registration number PR 5868.

Powell Gilbert is the trading name of an international legal practice composed of Powell Gilbert LLP and Powell Gilbert (Europe) LLP.

Partners

The partners of Powell Gilbert LLP are: Simon Ayrton*, Zoë Butler*, Joel Coles*, Peter Damerell*, Penny Gilbert* (Mediator), Bethan Hopewell*, Rajvinder Jagdev*, Andreas Kramer** (Rechtsanwalt, Fachanwalt für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz, UPC Representative), Siddharth Kusumakar*, Ari Laakkonen*, Bryce Matthewson* (Attorney of the High Court of South Africa), Tom Oliver*, Tess Waldron*, Tim Whitfield*, Alex Wilson* (CEDR Mediator and European lawyer admitted in Germany) and Callum Beamish-Lacey (Barrister (England & Wales), Barrister (Ireland), UPC Representative, member of Powell Gilbert (Europe) LLP and active at our London office),

In addition to the individual qualifications noted above, those partners denoted with a * are all Solicitors (England & Wales), Solicitors (Ireland), UPC Representatives and are active at our London office, and are also members of Powell Gilbert (Europe) LLP. Those partners denoted with a ** are active at our Düsseldorf office.

Professional Registration and Regulation

Powell Gilbert LLP is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Düsseldorf Bar Association (Rechtsanwaltskammer Düsseldorf), Freiligrathstraße 25, 40479 Düsseldorf, Germany (Deutschland).

The lawyers and attorneys of Powell Gilbert LLP are registered/regulated with the following bodies:

Solicitors of England & Wales are registered with and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) (The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street, Birmingham, B1 1RN, United Kingdom, T +44 (0)370 606 2555, https://www.sra.org.uk/)

Barristers of England & Wales are registered with The Bar Council (289-293 High Holborn, London WC1V 7HZ, United Kingdom, T +44 20 7242 0082, E ContactUs@BarCouncil.org.uk, http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/).

UK patent attorneys are registered with the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (95 Chancery Lane, London, United Kingdom, WC2A 1DT, T +44 20 7405 9450, E mail@cipa.org.uk, http://www.cipa.org.uk/) and are regulated by the Intellectual Property Regulation Board (5th Floor, The Outer Temple, 222-225 Strand, London WC2R 1BA, United Kingdom, E ipreg@org.uk, http://ipreg.org.uk/).

German attorneys-at-law and European lawyers are admitted as lawyers in the Federal Republic of Germany belong to the Rechtsanwaltskammer Düsseldorf (www.rechtsanwaltskammer-duesseldorf.de), which is the competent regulatory authority.

German patent attorneys are registered with the Patentanwaltskammer (German Chamber of Patent Attorneys) (Tal 29, 80331 Munich, Germany, T +49 89 242278 0, E dpak@patentanwalt.de, www.patentanwalt.de).

European patent attorneys are registered with the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI) (Bayerstrasse 83, 80335 Munich, Germany, T +49 89 242052 0, E info@patentepi.com, http://www.patentepi.com) , which is the competent regulatory authority..

Relevant Professional Regulations

German attorneys-at-law are subject to the following relevant professional regulations:

Federal Lawyers’ Act (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung, BRAO)
Rules of Professional Practice (Berufsordnung, BORA)
Regulations Relating to Specialist Lawyers (Fachanwaltsordnung, FAO)
Lawyers’ Fees Act (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz, RVG)
Code of Conduct for European Lawyers (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, CCBE)

The contents of the listed regulations can be found on the website of the Federal Bar Association at www.brak.de under the section Berufsrecht (Professional Law).

German Patent attorneys are subject to the Patent Attorneys Act (Patentanwaltsordnung), the Professional Code for Patent Attorneys (Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte) and the FICPI conduct rules. These can be found on https://www.patentanwalt.de/en/ in the section “Patent Attorneys”.

European patent attorneys are subject to the Code of Professional Conduct of The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi). These can be found on the epi website (https://patentepi.org/en/the-institute/rules-and-regulations.html).

VAT Registration

DE VAT ID: DE 459918269

UK VAT Number: GB 898 6881 28

Professional Liability Insurance

Powell Gilbert LLP maintains professional liability insurance with DUAL Deutschland GmbH, Schanzenstraße 36 / Gebäude 197, 51063 Köln – Tel: +49 221 1680260 for and on behalf of VHV Versicherungen, Allgemeine Versicherung AG, VHV-Platz 1, 30177 Hannover.

Consumer Arbitration Proceedings Under German Law

Powell Gilbert LLP is not obliged to and not willing to participate in arbitration proceedings conducted by the arbitration board of the legal profession in accordance with the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act.

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