Sibanda & Zantwijk

McLean Sibanda holds BSc(Eng) and MSc(Eng) degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), and the LLB and LLM (Commercial Law) degrees from UNISA.  He has been admitted as an attorney to the High Court of South Africa, and is also a qualified patent attorney.  He has wide legal experience in intellectual property and commercial law, with particular interests in patents, copyright, commercialization of intellectual property and deal structuring.  He has a wide experience in intellectual property management, commercialisation and commercial law, owing to his experience as a Senior Patent Attorney for the Innovation Fund.  McLean qualified as a patent attorney after serving articles with Adams & Adams attorneys.  He also spent close to seven years at De Beers Industrial Diamonds Division (now Element 6) being a Senior Research Scientist and Intellectual Property Team Leader. McLean has authored and co-authored a number of scientific and intellectual property articles and has been an invited speaker at both local and international conferences.  He serves on a number of boards in the capacity of a non-executive director.

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