Career
Andrew Duncan's documented professional role is that of partner at Bowman Gilfillan Hayman Godfrey Inc. The firm was established in 1902 and became one of the predecessor practices of the present-day Bowmans, a firm with its origins in the legal profession of Johannesburg.
Bowman Gilfillan was formed through the 1998 merger of three law firms: Bowman Gilfillan Hayman Godfrey, Findlay & Tait, which dated to 1885, and John & Kernick, which dated to 1923. The South African legal profession was undergoing major consolidation at that time, following the end of apartheid. The merged practice was later renamed Bowmans, and it is now one of the so-called Big Five law firms in South Africa.
The Johannesburg practice that became part of this lineage traces back to Douglas Flemmer Gilfillan, a South African lawyer who moved to Johannesburg in 1893 and founded a law firm that later became Bowman Gilfillan. Within this corporate and commercial law environment, the partnership role recorded for Andrew Duncan belongs to a firm whose work spanned corporate, commercial, tax and property matters.
