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Hong Kong > Intellectual property Tier 3
Led by the ‘proactive, experienced and knowledgeable’ Haifeng Huang, Jones Day’s Hong Kong IP team is ‘exceptionally good at engaging and interacting with clients’, including multinationals and local entities within the tech and life sciences sectors seeking to commercialise, protect and enforce their IPR. As well as advising local and international corporates on Hong Kong and Asia-based matters, Huang also regularly liaises with the firm’s US offices to advise Chinese corporates on outbound litigation, including as respondents in Section 337 ITC investigations.Practice head(s):
Haifeng Huang
Testimonials
‘They are exceptionally good at engaging and interacting with clients.’
‘Haifeng Huang is proactive, very experienced and knowledgeable.’
Key clients
Tineco Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Wybotics Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
East Penn Manufacturing Co.
Wikimedia Foundation
PJSC Oil Company “LUKOIL”
Incyte Corporation
GAW Capital Partners
Work highlights
- Represented Tineco as respondent in an investigation filed by complainants Bissell Inc. and Bissell Homecare Inc. relating to five asserted patents of wet-dry surface cleaning devices.
- Successfully represented Wybotics in a Section 337 patent infringement investigation before the US ITC.
- Defending Hikvision and its affiliates in several patent infringement lawsuits in the US. The firm also assists Hikvision with the management of its global trade mark portfolios and has been handling trade mark prosecution and enforcement actions in China, US and EU.
Hong Kong > Capital markets (equity) Tier 4
Praised for its ‘great negotiating skills’, language capabilities and international resources, Jones Day handles a significant amount of work relating to HKEX IPOs, global offerings, follow-on offerings, regulatory compliance and public M&A. The team has gained particular acclaim for its work in biotech/life sciences and hi-tech sectors, with ‘technically sound and commercially astute’ Joelle Lau a popular choice among Chinese issuers and banks on listings in the space. The ‘responsive and always reachable’ Charles Chau , who co-heads the team alongside Lau, is also noted for his work in the bioscience sector, including on issuer side private placements, IPOs, as well as current work for a proposed SPAC focused on biotech/TMT targets.Practice head(s):
Joelle Lau; Charles Chau
Other key lawyers:
Halent Zhang; Donna Ko; Wenxing Feng
Testimonials
‘Jones Day has great experience in capital market area. The lawyers have great negotiating skills and are able to provide valuable advice.’
‘Effectively bilingual team with particular depth of experience in the biosciences space.’
‘Charles Chau is responsive and always reachable.’
‘Joelle Lau is technically sound, very hands on, proactive, commercially astute and effectively bilingual.’
Key clients
GenScript Biotech Corporation
Legend Biotech Corporation
Jefferies LLC
Guotai Junan Capital Limited
New Hope Group Co Ltd
China Galaxy International Financial Capital Limited
China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC)
China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited
China Everbright Securities International Limited
CMBC International Capital Limited
Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd
Halcyon Capital Limited
Greater Bay Area Homeland Investments Limited
BOC International (Asia) Limited
Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd
BNP Paribas Securities (Asia) Limited
Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd.
UBS AG Hong Kong Branch
UBS Securities Hong Kong Limited
OMERS Administration Corporation
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited
Samson Paper Holdings Limited
Work highlights
- Represented GenScript Biotech Corporation in Legend Biotech’s various fundraising activities by way of private placements and a registered direct offering involving various counterparties, including Hillhouse Investment Management, Ltd., RA Capital Management, L.P. and Legend Capital Group, etc.
- Representing Samson Paper Holdings Limited on its $385m Bermuda/Mainland China/Hong Kong cross-border restructuring deal.
- Advised a SPAC, on its proposed HK$1bn IPO and listing on the Main Board of The Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
China > Intellectual property: foreign firms
Areas of strength for Jones Day's renowned IP China practice range from multinational companies’ inbound disputes, IP transactions and China portfolio strategies, to acting for Chinese companies in outbound litigation; it can also boast its own IP agency in China. The department’s combined sectoral experience encompasses the tech and life sciences sectors in particular. The Shanghai-based Anthony Chen, former co-chair of the IP subcommittee of the American Chamber of Commerce, advises pharmaceutical and biotech companies on navigating China’s pharmaceutical patent linkage system for protecting new drugs. Chen co-heads the team with Haifeng Huang (who splits his time between Beijing and Hong Kong), who has a broad practice covering disputes and transactions involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, antitrust, and tech licensing issues. Guoping Da left the firm for Juniv LLP in October 2022.Practice head(s):
Anthony Chen; Haifeng Huang
Other key lawyers:
Jiahui Sheng
Key clients
Tineco Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Wybotics Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
East Penn Manufacturing Co.
Wikimedia Foundation
LUKOIL
Incyte Corporation
GAW Capital Partners
Work highlights
- Represented Tineco in an investigation filed by Bissell Inc. and Bissell Homecare Inc. relating to five asserted patents of wet-dry surface cleaning devices.
- Represented Wybotics in a patent infringement investigation before the U.S. ITC.
- Defended Hangzhou and its affiliates in several patent infringement lawsuits in the US.
China > Dispute resolution: Litigation: foreign firms
Jones Day‘s China-based disputes team routinely acts in litigation before Mainland China’s courts (through local counsel), while Chinese clients additionally benefit from the firm’s enviable US and cross-border litigation experience. In Hong Kong, Peter Wang‘s broad practice covers complex commercial disputes, and Samuel Ngo is ‘an exceptionally experienced practitioner‘. IP disputes specialist Haifeng Huang and antitrust expert Qiang Xue both split their time between Hong Kong and Beijing, while in Shanghai, of counsel Lillian He focuses on dispute resolution and internal investigations. At associate level, Liya He assists multinational companies with global disputes.Practice head(s):
Peter Wang; Lillian He; Haifeng Huang; Qiang Xue
Other key lawyers:
Liya He; Wilson Sung; Po-Chien Chen; Samuel Ngo
Testimonials
‘Samuel Ngo is an exceptionally experienced practitioner in this field.’
‘Samuel Ngo brings lots of verve and new ideas to complex disputes. With his vast experience, he also has extraordinary insights into clients’ (and equally usefully the opponents’) real commercial needs.’
Key clients
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co
Moody’s Corporation
Samson Paper Holdings
Jones Day > Firm Profile
The firm: Jones Day is a global law firm with more than 2,400 lawyers in 40 offices across five continents. The firm is distinguished by: a singular tradition of client service; the mutual commitment to, and the seamless collaboration of, a true partnership; formidable legal talent across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions; and shared professional values that focus on client needs.
Jones Day is an institutional partner for clients who seek counsel that seeks to understand them and their needs; that communicates with clients about their needs and the different tactics available for addressing those needs; that works seamlessly and impressively across offices and practices and with the client; that provides talent and expertise across subject areas and geographies; and that brings commitment and courage to the relationship and its engagements. We are formidable because every partner and every client has the entire global institution at their command and is a high priority of the firm as a whole. We are true partners, with each other and, even more importantly, with our clients.
Regions of practice
Asia-Pacific: Jones Day has committed substantial resources and capacity to serve each of Asia’s distinct markets, including China, Japan, Singapore and Southeast Asia, as well as Australia. Spread throughout ten offices in the region, the firm’s more than 180 lawyers represent clients in practice areas including antitrust, banking and finance, capital markets, corporate and commercial, energy, global disputes, intellectual property, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate, and several others.
The majority of Jones Day’s Asia-based lawyers are admitted to practice local law in their home jurisdictions. Most have practiced in more than one country, enabling Jones Day’s Asia team to render multijurisdictional legal services. Jones Day has been granted a Qualifying Foreign Law Practice license (QFLP) in Singapore.
United States: Surveys repeatedly list Jones Day as one of the most frequently engaged law firms by US corporations for both transactional and disputes matters, and among the leaders in client service. Jones Day’s more than 1,500 lawyers across its 18 US offices collaborate to serve clients across practices and geographies on all major matters that span time-honored practices (antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and government regulation) to more recently established and expanded areas (cybersecurity, life sciences, energy, and technology) that specifically address the contemporary challenges of an increasingly complex global business and legal environment.
Europe and Middle East: Jones Day provides a significant presence in Europe that offers clients more than 575 lawyers from its European offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, and Paris. The firm’s lawyers counsel clients in administrative and public law, banking and finance, capital markets, competition law and regulatory, derivatives, market infrastructures, dispute resolution, and investigations.
In the Middle East, the firm’s Dubai-based lawyers have accumulated significant experience in most of the region’s key industries and jurisdictions, advising on mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions, projects and infrastructure, commercial transactions, real estate and construction matters, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution.
Latin America: Jones Day is one of the leading global law firms serving the Latin American region through its offices in Mexico City and São Paulo, along with attorneys based in key business and legal centers such as New York, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and Madrid. Jones Day’s Latin American experience extends to mergers and acquisitions, investigations and anti-corruption, projects and infrastructure, banking and finance, energy, dispute resolution, business restructuring, private equity and capital markets.
Managing partner: Gregory M. Shumaker
Asia-Pacific offices: Beijing, Brisbane, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Perth, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo
US offices: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Irvine, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C.
Europe and Middle East offices: Amsterdam, Brussels, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris
Latin America offices: Mexico City, São Paulo
Main areas of practice:
- Antitrust and competition law
- Business and tort litigation
- Business restructuring and reorganization
- Cybersecurity, privacy and data protection
- Employee benefits and executive compensation
- Energy
- Financial markets
- Global disputes
- Government regulation
- Health care and life sciences
- Insurance recovery
- Intellectual property
- Investigations and white-collar defense
- Issues and appeals
- Labor and employment
- M&A
- Private equity
- Real estate
- Securities litigation and SEC enforcement
- State Attorney General enforcement, investigations and litigation
- Tax
- Technology
Main Contacts
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| Managing Partner | Gregory M. Shumaker |
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