Ian Finch James & Wells, Partner
Edwin Lim Hudson Gavin Martin, Partner Edwin Lim has specialised in technology, media and IP law for over 15 years. He acts for start-ups right through to large multinationals, including Foodstuffs, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Duco Events, Microsoft in New Zealand; and Dubai Government, Emirates, Jumeriah, Dell and Accenture when he was practising in the Middle East. In 2006, Lim joined Clyde & Co in Dubai, where he advised government, local and international clients on technology and telecommunications projects, as well as establishing and conducting businesses in the Middle East. He now sits on the boards of the New Zealand Software Association, New Zealand Middle East Business Council and the New Zealand Game Developers Association. Lim is also on the Technology Law committees of the Auckland District Law Society and New Zealand Law Society. Lim is a mentor for the IBM SmartCamp Regional Finalists, and actively mentors other technology start-ups, and is a judge for SPARK (the University of Auckland’s Entrepreneurship Programme).
As a partner of national intellectual property firm James & Wells, head of the firm’s litigation division and a registered patent attorney in New Zealand and Australia, Ian Finch specialises in the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Finch is the General Editor of New Zealand’s leading text on intellectual property law, James & Wells Intellectual Property Law in New Zealand, writing the majority of content for it, and is the immediate pastPresident of the New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys. He represented G-Star Raw in a landmark copyright case against Jeanswest Corporation where the Court of Appeal ordered Jeanswest to pay additional damages for infringing the copyright in client G-Star Raw’s iconic Elwood denim jean design, which was the most damages awarded by a New Zealand court in a civil case involving a breach of intellectual property rights. Finch is ranked in the top 1,000 patent attorneys in the world in the IAM Patent 1000 and is recommended by the World Trade Mark Review 1000 for enforcement and litigation, with one judge describing him as a ‘superstar’. Finch also restores classic cars, his current project being a 1955 Buick Riviera Special.
Mark Beech Holland Beckett, Partner Mark Beech is the head of the litigation team at Holland Beckett. He is an experienced civil litigator practising at all court levels, with additional experience in employment law and medico legal work. He is an experienced mediator and arbitrator, and has recently been elected as the deputy chair of the dispute resolution organisation LEADR & IAMA. Beech has been a board member of LEADR for 14 years. Whilst he was the New Zealand chairman, LEADR NZ integrated with LEADR to become the primary dispute resolution service in Australasia. He was a driving force behind LEADR’s integration with the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA) in 2015, making it the largest dispute resolution organisation in the Southern Hemisphere.
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