Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 Edition

20 www.finance-monthly.com Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 IRELAND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM OF THE YEAR Winner: Firm Profile Carey & Associates is a leading Irish firm of professional advisors, formed in 2001 to meet the needs of companies experiencing strategic challenges and undergoing significant business transformation. Since formation, the company has built a client base of successful multinational, blue chip clients. The firm has been instrumental in adding significant value to these organisations and has a track record of success – in 2008 we have measured a ‘delivered value’ to organisations in excess of €50 million. Carey & Associates possesses a breadth of experience that allows us to tackle our clients’ most complex business problems and deal with them in an integrated way. Carey & Associates can deliver specific services tailored to specific needs, or can combine services and capabilities to set up a whole physical business or e-business - from the strategy and proposition through web design and marketing, all the way to fulfilment systems, processes, plant design and partner selection. Contact Details Email: info@careys.ie Website: www.careys.ie GERMANY TRADEMARK LAWYER OF THE YEAR Winner: Personal Bio Paul Lange, an attorney at law, is senior partner at Siebeke, Lange, Wilbert, a leading law firm in the field of national and international trademark and sign protection, based in Dusseldorf. Prof Lange considers a firm’s trademarks and other identifying signs to be a primary, integral element of its communication with clients worldwide. His marketing-led attitude is vital when advising and acting for large and medium-sized businesses on all trademark law issues. Prof Lange conducts litigation in Germany, throughout Europe and in other industrialised countries worldwide, thereby making use of an international network of carefully selected specialists. His clients include international corporations, large and medium-sized companies – both in Germany and abroad – as well as wealthy private individuals. He advises and acts for businesses in different commercial sectors, including major energy suppliers, telecommunications and retail corporations, companies in the clothing, foodstuffs and pharmaceutical industries, players in the automotive industry and teams of designers. In a current high-profile trial, he is representing the major German retail chain real,- SB Warenhaus GmbH against the German Football Association in a trademark dispute involving the brands of the national football team. Prof Lange is author of the major standard practical manual on German and European trademark and sign protection law, Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht, which is regularly cited by legal practitioners and judges. He is also editor and co-author – along with 22 eminent authors from 14 industrialised nations – of the international practical handbook on trademark and sign protection International Trademark and Sign Protection, which also covers the marketing and evaluation of trademarks and signs. Prof Lange was selected as Lawyer of the Year (intellectual property – Dusseldorf) by Best Lawyers International in 2012. He is a long-time member of the European Communities Trademark Association Law Committee and of the International Trademark Association, among others. He has been an attorney at law since 1984 and an honorary professor of intellectual property since 2000. Contact Details: Paul Lange - Partner at Siebeke Lange Wilbert Tel: +49 211 4343240 | Fax: +49 211 451015 Email: lange@siebeke.com Web: www.siebeke.com Paul Lange