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CMS‘ TMT team mainly advises clients on IP and fintech matters related to the TMT sector. The team assists with both contentious and non-contentious IP issues, including anti-counterfeiting, IP rights enforcement and litigation. The team is led by Jonathan Chu, who advises on commercial and regulatory matters including TMT transactions and commercial agreements. Mengyi Chen assists with IP transactions and enforcement. Nick Beckett left the firm in April 2024.
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  • ‘Always provides client ease with the professional advice that is astute to client's needs, practical and effective. Wonderful team that helps client to deliver strategic results and always a pleasure to work with the team. ’

  • ‘Jonathan Chu and Mengyi Chen have an astuteness and awareness of industry's needs and able to provide advice that is ahead of the game with their diverse knowledge and experience to tackle any issue or development.'

  • ‘Team is headed by Jonathan Chu who is an amazingly effective and parallel strategy thinker.’

  • ‘Jonathan Chu will coordinate efforts in China and Hong Kong with those worldwide bringing a subtlety and strategic direction that frequently ends in very favourable results.’

Key clients

  • Baidu
  • BeiGene
  • Bitmain Technologies
  • Hundsun Ayers Technologies Limited
  • Rice Robotics
  • ShopBack
  • Toshiba
  • Quwan

Work highlights

  • Advising Honor and Bitmain Technolgoies on trade mark oppositions, revocations, invalidations, infringement and passing-off matters in Hong Kong.
  • Advising a major Japanese electronics company on a claim against a service provider in an online advertising dispute.
  • Advising a Japanese international advertising and public relations company on an infringement of its trade name by another website.

Lawyers

Practice head

Jonathan Chu

Other key lawyers

Mengyi Chen