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Chair of listed firm to retire
The chairman of intellectual property firm IPH Limited intends to retire in November.
Jerome Doraisamy
Richard Grellman AM has advised the board of IPH that he intends to retire as chair from said board, at the conclusion of the company’s annual general meeting, which is set to be held in November of this year.
The board of IPH has undertaken a formal process to select and appoint a new chair.
In the time that Mr Grellman has been chair, IPH successfully listed in November 2014, acquired intellectual property businesses Fisher Adams Kelly, Callinans and Pizzeys Patent, Trade Mark Attorneys, Practice Insight, Cullens Patent, Hong Kong-based Ella Cheong Limited and its subsidiary, New Zealand-based AJ Park, and Xenith IP Group (including Glasshouse Advisory, Griffith Hack, Shelston IP and Watermark).
Also in that time, Spruson & Ferguson – which the company acquired prior to its listing – merged with Cullens and Fisher Adams Kelly Callinans to form one combined firm operating under the Spruson & Ferguson brand and integrated Watermark into Griffith Hack.
Mr Grellman oversaw IPH becoming an ASX 200 company, it said in its statement, “with a market capitalisation of approximately $1.5 billion”.
Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly. A former lawyer, he has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. He is also the host of all five shows under The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network, and has overseen the brand's audio medium growth from 4,000 downloads per month to over 60,000 downloads per month, making The Lawyers Weekly Show the most popular industry-specific podcast in Australia. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of Minds Count.
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