It has been a big week at Pearce IP as we gathered our clients, colleagues and New Zealand based team at Auckland’s highest rooftop bar to celebrate the launch of Pearce IP in New Zealand.
We toasted visionaries Naomi Pearce and Adele Chadwick and New Zealand Executives and IP superstars Paul Johns, Julie Ballance, Sally Paterson and Kim Evans, and celebrated the early successes and great future of Pearce IP in New Zealand.
At the launch party, which was well attended by colleagues and clients, our CEO Naomi Pearce reinforced her 2027 Vision to be the premier life sciences focused IP firm in Australia and New Zealand. Naomi spoke passionately about her unapologetic focus on achieving Pearce IP’s 2027 Vision and commitment to further growth in New Zealand:
“New Zealand became a focal point for Pearce IP in 2023, and has quickly become a place of strategic investment and recruitment. In 2024 we incorporated an attorney firm and a law firm, and staffed offices in Wellington and Auckland. I remain unapologetic about my 2027 Vision and resolute in my commitment to bring it into fruition.”
Executive Lawyer and Head of Litigation Paul Johns says:
Pearce IP is the only known leading IP firm with a team of lawyers and attorneys who have biology/chemistry backgrounds and are dually registered in New Zealand and Australia. This means our Trans-Tasman offering is truly seamless – with one team running contentious disputes on both sides of the Tasman!
I am excited to be working with my fellow Executives based in New Zealand and Australia and their respective teams, to shake up the Trans-Tasman IP market, and become the premier life sciences IP firm in New Zealand.
We were delighted to be joined by Pearce IP’s newest New Zealand based Executive Sally Paterson (Lawyer, Patent Attorney and Trade Mark Attorney) who commences with Pearce IP in Auckland in early May 2025.
About Pearce IP
Pearce IP is a boutique firm offering intellectual property specialist lawyers, patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys to the life sciences industries (in particular, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotech, ag-tech and food tech). Pearce IP is the 2021 ‘Intellectual Property Team of the Year’ (Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards) and was shortlisted for the same award in 2022. Pearce IP is ranked in IAM Patent 1000 and Managing IP (MIP) IP Stars, in Australasian Lawyer 5 Star Awards as a ‘5 Star’ firm, and the Legal 500 APAC Guide for Intellectual Property.
Our leaders have been recognised in virtually every notable IP listing for their legal, patent and trade mark excellence including: IAM Patent 1000, IAM Strategy 300, MIP IP Stars, Doyles Guide, WIPR Leaders, 5 Star IP Lawyers, Best Lawyers, and Australasian Lawyer 5 Star Awards, and have been honoured with many awards including Australian Law Awards – IP Partner of the Year, Women in Law Awards – Partner of the Year, Women in Business Law Awards - Patent Lawyer of the Year (Asia Pacific), Most Influential Lawyers (Changemaker), among other awards.