The firm had its beginnings in November 1929 when Ben Matz, a newly qualified .attorney from Simon's Town and John Pincus joined forces and commenced trading under the name Pincus & Matz from Standard Bank Chambers, Main Road, Wynberg. In 1935 they moved to the Duncan Taylor's Building on the comer of Maynard and Main Roads and in 1944 admitted JL Feinberg as a partner and changed their name to Pincus Matz & Feinberg. In 1954 they opened a second office in the Permanent Building, Main Road, Claremont at the request of the then Permanent Building Society.

The next significant change was in 1986 when Pincus Matz & Feinberg and Marquard & Hugo-Hamman amalgamated to form Pincus Matz - Marquard Hugo-Hamman and this was reduced to the current name of Pincus Matz & Marquard in 1997.

When Maynard House was built in Maynard Road, Pincus Matz & Feinberg became the first and anchor tenant occupying the bulk of the first floor. By 1985 they had spread far down the passage and, at one stage, occupied the entire first floor as well as aground floor shop which was concerted into a Permanent Building Society agency, debt collecting department and reception area.

Changed circumstances however required changes in the firm and in 1998 this was achieved physically by a move to the newly built complex in Brodie Road, Wynberg.

The firm was essentially re-launched with a new crop of youthful lawyers trading from Pincus Matz House. The current partnership boasts an average age of forty four years and a healthy mixture of experience and youthful energy. With six attorneys on the staff the firm is big enough to handle most problems and, at the same time, small enough to deliver a personalised and caring service.

It numbers amongst its clients listed companies at the one end of the spectrum to "the man in the street" at the other and family businesses who have dealt with the firm since its inception in 1929 to new clients coming through the doors each day.