We are thrilled to announce that CWB Group has merged with PETOŠEVIĆ Group, a leading intellectual property firm operating in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, to form CWB, an unrivalled super-regional firm, servicing and managing the IP portfolios of some of the world’s leading IP owners across the Middle East, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

Together, we now have a team of over 250 people (including more than 150 IP practitioners) operating in 26 offices and providing IP and related services in over 100 jurisdictions. We intend to expand our presence and services into more of the world’s complex regions, always as one firm.

We will think beyond today’s possibilities to work as one and offer centrally managed super regional IP solutions in secondary markets, leveraging tomorrow’s technology and local know-how, through an unrivalled footprint of strategically located offices.

We intend to consistently deliver outstanding, solution driven and commercially focused IP services, to enable and empower creators and innovators to extend their IP into secondary markets to effect social reform, economic development and technological advancement. We’re driven to rise above the everyday limitations and trade-offs inherent to the regions we operate in to create sustained certainty, in a very much uncertain landscape.

Thank you for your continued support and trust in CWB as we enter this new era.

by Theuns van de Merwe