Endo & Company Advocates

Established in 2013

Total number of professionals: 10 (2 partners)
Principal office: Dar es Salaam

Key practice areas

Intellectual property (trade/service marks, patents, copyrights, industrial designs, plant breeders, geographic indication, unfair competition; corporate and commercial law; private international law; litigations

Our services

Endo & Company Advocates is a law firm based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The firm is licensed to render legal services in corporate and commercial, conveyance and real estate, employment and labour laws, intellectual property laws and immigration matters in mainland Tanzania, Zanzibar as well as before the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO). The ARIPO includes the states of Botswana; Cape Verde; Kingdom of Eswatini; The Gambia; Ghana; Kenya; Kingdom of Lesotho Liberia; Malawi; Mauritius; Mozambique; Namibia; Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Somalia; Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The services range from the provision of legal advice on the purchase of real properties, banking (security documentation), insurance matters, trade and service marks, lending and loan recoveries and other related issues. The firm is further dealing with the provision of the company’s secretarial services, drafting and reviewing various legal documents including contracts, transfer deeds in relation to real properties, registration of trade and service marks, security documentation, share purchase agreements and attending to the registration of these documents at the respective registries.

Intellectual Property and Antitrust

Endo & Company Advocates is actively involved in prosecuting, protecting intellectual property rights and litigating complex antitrust cases throughout mainland Tanzania, Tanzania Zanzibar and before the ARIPO.

The firm represents consumers and businesses in price-fixing, bid-rigging, monopolisation and other restraints trade cases. In such actions, the firm works to ensure that the markets remain free, open and competitive to the benefit of both consumers and businesses. Endo & Company Advocates actively involved in handling applications for trademarks (registration, renewal, assignment/ licensing and franchising, recordal of change of name and change of address as well as trademark infringement, passing off and opposition proceedings), patents, including contentious and non-contentious work, copyright and design right, confidential information disputes and protection for mainland Tanzania, Tanzania Zanzibar and before the ARIPO.

Banking and Finance, Commercial Contracts, Securities and Corporate Governance

Endo & Company Advocates represent individuals as well as institutional investors that have suffered from corporate stock fraud through securities transactions and corporate governance or shareholder derivative litigation. The firm’s philosophy is simple: Officers and directors of a corporation should be responsible to their shareholders and the public markets. The firm has participated in recovering millions of shillings and has received precedent-setting reforms in corporate governance on behalf of investors. Since its inception, the firm’s securities and corporate governance litigation department has developed and maintained a reputation of excellence and integrity recognised by the community.

Regarding commercial contracts, Endo & Company Advocates is actively involved in contract formulation and review on behalf of clients, including sale contracts, business contracts, agreements, memorandums of understanding, procurements contracts, grant contracts and e-contracts.