Client Choice - Commercial Arbitration Law Firm of the Year in China / Client Choice - M&A Law Firm of the Year in China / Editor’s Choice - Trade Law Firm of the Year in China / TMT Lawyer of the Year in China / Trademark Lawyer of the Year in China
Hylands Law Firm 5A, East Wing, Hanwei Plaza, No.7 Guanghua Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100004, China Tel: +86 10 5201 9988 Fax: +86 10 6561 2322 www.hylandslaw.com Hylands aims at growing together with the clients through its integrity, high efficiency and the most professional and comprehensive legal services. Through years of efforts, Hylands has built sound working relations with competent judicial and administrative authorities and agencies, and established outstanding Headquartered in Beijing, Hylands is capable of advising its clients worldwide with reputation among securities companies, investment banks, accounting firms and its domestic branch offices in Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, as well appraisal agencies. as its cooperation with over 150 law firms in more than 100 countries through TerHylands has earned numerous awards, including but not limited to: raLex, a leading network of independent law firms of which Hylands is a member. 1. Chambers & Partners • Asia-Pacific Leading Firm in International Trade/ Technology, Media & There are more than 40 partners, nearly 150 lawyers and paralegals at Hylands. All Telecom/ Intellectual Property, 2013 of them are graduates from prestigious Chinese or foreign law schools, and many • Asia-Pacific Leading Firm in International Trade/ Technology, Media & can work in English, Italian, German, or Japanese, in addition to Chinese. They put Telecom/ Intellectual Property, 2012 a special premium on teamwork to provide clients with high quality and efficient legal services. In particular, with their expertise in law and a good sense of commer- 2. China Business Law Journal • Top 10 Shenzhen SME board IPO legal advisers (March 2012 to April 2013) cial practices in various industry sectors and the overall investment environment in • “Outbound M&A deal of the year”, 2012 (Western Digital Corporation to China, Hylands’ legal teams are able to provide customized advice tailored to the file antimonopoly notification in China for its acquisition of Hitachi Global specific needs of each client. Storage Technologies) As one of the leading full-service law firms in China, Hylands is highly recognized 3. Asian Legal Business and acclaimed by both clients and legal professionals in the following practice areas: • Top 20 Largest Law Firm in China, 2012 • Top 20 Largest Law Firm in China, 2011 corporate & securities, banking & financing, transnational investment, intellectual property, media & entertainment, anti-dumping, anti-monopoly, international trade, 4. China Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Contentious “PRC Firm of the Year”, 2012 real estate, labor & employment, litigation & arbitration. Hylands Law Firm was founded in 2007 through the consolidation of two prestigious law firms, Hao Tian Law Office and Li Wen & Partners, both of which were founded in the middle of 1990s.
Prosecution Law Firm of the Year in China Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd. Stephen Yang Partner, Patent Attorney Tel: +86-10-8231-1199 mail@peksung.com www.peksung.com
Peksung is a boutique intellectual property law firm that provides services tion with clients – enabling the firm to better serve international clients. for domestic and overseas clients in both prosecution and litigation related Peksung’s boasts one of the strongest practice groups in chemical, biotech and to patent, trademark, design, copyright, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and pharmaceutical patents, among all Chinese firms. The firm represents many big custom protection. names in these areas, domestic and international. Peksung attorneys once represented Pfizer on the “Viagra Patent” validity case, a high profile case regarded by domestic “Peksung focuses on providing a quality service, in addition to providing qual- and overseas IP communities. Peksung was also chosen by its prestigious client, ity work to our clients. To us, quality service means care, responsiveness and Porsche, as the winner of the Prosecution Firm of the year - 2011, among all the firms personalisation. With the firm’s dedicated partners who were once in-house Porsche used globally. counsels, Peksung gained perspective from the client’s standpoint and underPeksung is also known for its stable team of professionals in regards to the compestands the needs of our clients. In particular, instead of acting somewhat like tition of qualified IP attorneys among firms. This ensures a consistently high level of a mail stop, Peksung distinguishes itself from other IP boutiques in China by work and services is delivered to clients. providing the right legal advice at the right level,” commented Stephen Yang, The firm has a reputation in the Chinese IP community as a firm that makes abpartner and patent attorney at Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd. solutely no compromise on quality. In addition, Peksung conducts all translations of Mr Yang joined Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd. in 2005. His practice areas patent applications in house. Peksung does not use outside contract translators, which include patent search, infringement analysis, patent application drafting, pros- is part of its quality assurance program and distinguishes Peksung from most other ecution, reexamination, invalidation and litigation in a wide variety of technical firms, especially bigger firms. Peksung has a good in-house training program which fields, particularly general machines, energy and high tech areas, design appli- helps to get younger attorneys up to speed to the firm’s quality standards. cation prosecution, IP generation, IP strategy and portfolio management. Peksung’s client list includes both domestic and overseas clients, ranging from He is registered to practise before the Chinese Patent Office. Peksung’s part- individual inventors to multinational companies across all technical sectors, many of ners have all been educated, trained or have worked overseas and hence have which are leaders in their respective industries. The firm continues to be ranked as superior language skills than its peers and can better assist domestic clients one of the leading IP boutique firms in China, by various sources and is consistently with its knowledge of foreign IP practices, while ensuring smooth communica- named as winner of many different awards in the IP profession.
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