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About US

Brockerhoff & Associates is a multi- disciplinary law firm which takes pride in providing world class legal services to both clients in Namibia as well as internationally. We always strive to exceed our clients’ expectations by providing a solution driven service that marries a strong technical legal approach with sound and pragmatic commercial advice aimed at tackling the various challenges that our clients may face whilst navigating Namibia’s business landscape. We represent market leading organisations in inter alia the industrial sector, local and regional government, infrastructure as well as various non-governmental and religious organisations.

“We always strive to exceed our clients’ expectations by providing a solution driven service that marries a strong technical legal approach with sound and pragmatic commercial advice”

About US

“We always strive to exceed our clients’ expectations by providing a solution driven service that marries a strong technical legal approach with sound and pragmatic commercial advice”

OUR VALUES

In order to seamlessly deliver the best possible service to our clients we pride ourselves on ensuring that we have a highly trained and motivated support staff which human resource backbone is further complimented by the state of the art security and legal research technologies we employ in our practice. The aforesaid ensures safe and secure storage of sensitive client information as well as easy and efficient access to research materials. In order to ensure statutory compliance with our governing legislative framework we confirm that both our business and trust accounts are subject to prescribed audit by our external auditors.

“Our reputation
for excellence has allowed
the firm to forge various relationships
with leaders in both the government and
business arenas.”

OUR VALUES

“Our reputation
for excellence has allowed
the firm to forge various relationships
with leaders in both the government and
business arenas.”

OUR SERVICES

We aim to provide a meaningful and valuable service to our clients by providing them with insight into the local business terrain, with the intention of forging a long term professional working relationship with our client. The aforesaid is achieved by providing commercially pragmatic advice geared at protecting our client’s interests. We aim to demystify the process of addressing murky legal considerations on behalf of our clients, which legal considerations are often times cumbersome but essential to the proper conduct of business in Namibia.

Our approach in this regard is as follows: – Maintaining proactive and responsive feedback on mandates with our clients; – Ensuring that the growth of our relationship with clients is geared towards the long-term;
– Identifying and troubleshooting red flag issues at an early stage;
– Furnishing practical advice; and
– Aggressively pursuing/protecting client’s interests.

Our service offering and work product is of the highest standards and we continuously aim to maintain and improve our offering by engaging in continuous development opportunities in our chosen areas of practice as part of our commitment to providing world class legal services to our clients.

OUR SERVICES

Our approach in this regard is as follows: – Maintaining proactive and responsive feedback on mandates with our clients;

– Ensuring that the growth of our relationship with clients is geared towards the long-term;
– Identifying and troubleshooting red flag issues at an early stage;
– Furnishing practical advice; and
– Aggressively pursuing/protecting client’s interests.

AREAS OF PRACTICE Our Specialities

As a boutique firm that concentrates on each and every client the Firm is in a desirable situation because its attention to detail and professional services will be considerable, relative to sole proprietors as it will have sufficient capacity. Additionally, while each Legal Associate at the firm is well versed in generally every notable area of the law, the associates through their articles as well as their own practices hitherto have developed preferred areas of practice wherein which they are particularly skilled and have acquired budding reputations in. This will undoubtedly give the Firm a market edge in targeting specific areas.

“We continuously aim to maintain and improve our offering by engaging in continuous development opportunities in our chosen areas of practice”

AREAS OF PRACTICE Our Specialities

“We continuously aim to maintain and improve our offering by engaging in continuous development opportunities in our chosen areas of practice”

Commercial & Corporate

Our corporate and commercial offering includes, but is not limited, to the following:
– Negotiating, “deal structuring” and drafting of transaction instruments on behalf of our clients;
-Due diligence reports;
– Corporate restructuring;
– Competition/ anti-trust;
– Black economic empowerment advice;
– Mining ( including health and safety);
– Public private partnerships;
– Renewable energy;
– Project finance;
– Corporate governance and compliance; and
– Closing opinions and the Namibianisation
of instruments.

Dispute Resolution & Administrative Law

Our Dispute Resolution offering includes, but
is not limited, to the following:
– Litigation in the Supreme and High Courts
of Namibia;
– Magistrates court appearance;
– Mediation and Arbitration; and
– Debt recovery.

Our Administrative Law offering includes, but
is not limited, to the following:
– Procurement law ( including reviews);
– Regional and Local Authority council Advice;
– Public private partnerships.

Intellectual Property Law

Our Intellectual Property offering includes, but
is not limited, to the following:
– Registration of Trademarks;
– Registration of Patents;
– Registration of Copyrights, and
– Registration of plant breeders rights

Labour / Employment Law

Our employment law offering includes, but is
not limited, to the following:
– Chairing and Initiating disciplinary hearings;
– Conciliation and Arbitrations;
– Negotiating and drafting bargaining agreements;
and
– Labour Court litigation;

Criminal Law

Our Criminal Law offering includes, but in not
limited, to the following:
– Criminal trials
– Bail Applications
– Appeals
– All other related applications

MANAGING PARTNER TREVOR BROCKERHOFF

MR TREVOR P. BROCKERHOFF

LLB (University of Namibia)

Mr Brockerhoff is a graduate of the University of Namibia who has over 8 years experience as a senior legal officer in the ministry of justice. During his tenure as a legal officer he regularly advised on highly complex litigious matters and obtained a stellar reputation for his work as a trial attorney.

Trevor Phillip Brockerhoff brings to the firm litigation experience in excess of eight years. He joined the Directorate Legal Aid in December 2009 where he has amassed vast experience in criminal, labour and civil litigation. Furthermore he has extensively practised in the Magistrate’s courts, High Court and the Supreme Court of Namibia.

Amongst various high profile cases, Mr Brockerhoff was one of the litigants in the constitutional challenge in re: constitutionality of long and excessive prison sentences in the Supreme Court of Namibia.