Ms Bin ZHANG > Lifang & Partners > Beijing, China > Lawyer Profile
Lifang & Partners Offices
12th Floor, Shun Tak Tower, 1 Xiangheyuan Street,
Dongcheng District
BEIJING
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Ms Bin ZHANG
Work Department
Intellectual Property/Dispute Resolution
Position
Senior Partner
Career
Ms. Zhang has 19 years’ experience in legal practice, primarily involving intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition matters. She has extensive experience in handling dispute resolution and transactional matters relating to trademarks, copyright, patents, unfair competition, trade secrets, domain names, technology contracts and corporate intellectual property arrangements.
Ms. Zhang has represented clients in many important cases before the Supreme People’s Court, provincial High People’s Courts, and in cases of significant public interest that have received wide media coverage from CCTV, provincial satellite TV and Legal Daily. Several of her cases have been listed as Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases or Top 10 Software Cases.
Since 2012, Ms. Zhang has been recognized in Chambers as a leading IP lawyer. Chambers once quoted a client as having said: “She has extensive experience in litigation and gives us well-structured and to-the-point advice.” She was also praised for being a “very strong, detailed and professional lawyer… [Who] drills down into the issues and executes well.” Ms. Zhang was recognised as an “ALB China Female Lawyer” in October 2016.
Ms. Zhang is retained as counsel by a number of high-tech, cultural and creative companies, that she advises on corporate management, contracts, shareholding structures, labour issues, and investment disputes. Her clients include American Superconductor, Microsoft, Business Software Alliance, Adobe, Autodesk, Siemens, Dassault, Trimble, Foundry, Bestseller, Heinz, Trend Micro, Alibaba, Twinhead, Ting Hsin Group (Master Kong), Wanfang Data, Chukong Technology (Cocos), Enlight Media, Canxing, CESEC, CRCC, CMBC, PICC, China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation, Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, the Beijing Times, GXT Communications, Genghai Real Estate, Fenyu China, Dayin Huadian, Helar Music and Land Smart Solutions.
Languages
Chinese/English
Memberships
– LLM, Civil and Commercial Law, Law School of Peking University.
– LLB, Intellectual Property Law, Law School of Northeastern University.
Lawyer Rankings
China > Intellectual property: PRC firms
(Hall of Fame)With ‘substantial experience in handling IP cases‘, Lifang & Partners‘ IP litigation team is best known for its expertise in the technology and telecoms sectors, particularly in relation to patents. The group comprises over 60 professionals, who are also consistently mandated to act in heavyweight disputes concerning trade marks, copyright, and trade secrets. The team is co-led by Guanbin Xie
, an expert in IP disputes, technology, and antitrust and competition law; Li Wu, who focuses on patent prosecution, invalidation and litigation work; IP litigation specialist Bin Zhang, whose track record includes several cases before the Supreme People’s Court and provincial high people’s courts; IP disputes practitioner Haidong Yu; and patent law expert Yuanyuan Zhang, who assists with invalidity issues, freedom to operate opinions, and infringement litigation. Other names to note are Lei Zhang, Manxia Xu and Flora Li, along with associates Fang Dong, Heng Ji and Xiao Wang.