The Firm carries on the practice of Advocates and Solicitors, Notaries Public, Commissioners for Oaths and Agents for Trade Marks, Patents and Designs. The Firm and our Partners have been regularly profiled in The Asia-Pacific Legal 500, Chambers Asia, Asia Law Profile, Who’s Who Legal, and Managing Intellectual Property Magazine. Our clientele ranges from multinational corporations, international airlines, the world’s largest medical indemnifier, financial institutions, statutory boards, large and medium enterprises, to high net worth individuals. The Firm is on the list of legal contacts of the Australian High Commission, the British High Commission, the Canadian High Commission, the New Zealand Embassy and the US Embassy.
The Firm is currently about 100-strong. Its office is at Clifford Centre, which is situated in Raffles Place, Singapore’s Central Business District. The Firm also operates Donaldson & Burkinshaw (I.P.) Sdn. Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which handles Malaysia intellectual property matters. Through affiliation with MULTILAW independent law offices located in North and South America, Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, the Firm has an extensive network and representation worldwide. Apart from the MULTILAW legal affiliate, the Firm has memberships with leading global, regional and local professional organisations such as the International Trade mark Association (INTA), the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), and the Association of Singapore Patent Agents (ASPA). The Firm is also a member of the Singapore Trustees Association (STA).
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Practicing Certificate No 1 of 1874 issued by the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, Division of Singapore, admitting John Burkinshaw as an Advocate and Attorney of the Court.
Steadily expanding as a general law practice, the Firm has been continuously upgrading the manpower and specialist skills required to cope with the large volume of sophisticated legal work and commercial transactions resulting from Singapore's emergence as a major financial and business hub in this timezone. Over the years, the Firm has nurtured many high calibre pupils and lawyers who have gone on to become Senior Counsel, law professors, founding Partners of boutique law firms, and successful members of the Bar in various areas of legal practice, locally and abroad.
Our mission is to provide the full range of high quality legal services to commercial, corporate, financial, industrial and public sector clients in accordance with international best practices. Our core values are excellence in the law, promptness, efficiency and professionalism; constant upgrading of specialist knowledge and core competencies, friendly and personable service; and the provision of pragmatic legal solutions. Over the past two centuries, the Firm has earned a sterling reputation for integrity, industry and astuteness in advancing and protecting our clients' best interests by looking beyond narrow legal issues towards our clients' total business goals.
In keeping with the fine traditions left behind by Messrs Aitken, Donaldson, and Burkinshaw, and the par excellence spirit of the Firm’s prominent predecessors who left giant footprints in Singapore’s legal history, the present partnership is committed to giving our clients only the very best in legal services.
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