News Release
Four Senior IP Lawyers to Join Jones Day Hong Kong Office
August 28, 2007
HONG KONG - The international law firm Jones Day today announced the addition of three partners and one of counsel to the Firm's intellectual property practice in Hong Kong.
Peggy Cheung, Anita Leung, and Chiang Ling Li, partners, and Helen Tang, of counsel, will join Jones Day over the next few months from Baker & McKenzie's Hong Kong/China Intellectual Property Group.
"The addition of these four veteran IP lawyers marks a pivotal point in the growth of our Hong Kong IP team and adds to our already-strong IP practice in Greater China," said Barbara Mok, partner-in-charge of Jones Day's Hong Kong office. "Their expertise will significantly boost our full-service IP offerings in the areas of contentious, transactional and trademark IP law."
Mrs. Cheung has practiced in the Hong Kong office of Baker & McKenzie since 1994. She has focused on areas of law pertaining to trademark registration and portfolio management, patent registration and general IP advisory. Mrs. Cheung played an active role in lobbying the Hong Kong Government on the Trade Marks Ordinance and the Trade Marks Rules when these were amended in 2003. She sits on a number of IP committees, including being the past President and current committee member of the Hong Kong Institute of Trade Marks Practitioners, Councellor of the Asia Patent Attorneys Association, Hong Kong Chapter. She earned her law degree from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and her LL.M. from the University of London in 1988.
Ms. Leung joined the Hong Kong office of Baker & McKenzie in 1987 as a trainee and made her way up to partnership there. She specializes in Hong Kong IP enforcement and litigation, product regulatory issues and commercial IP, focusing on licensing, franchising, distribution, advertising, sponsorship and transactional support and due diligence. Ms. Leung played an active role in lobbying the Hong Kong Government on the Copyright (Amendment) Ordinance, the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance and the Companies Ordinance (company name registration issues). She sits on various IP committees, including the Law Society IP Committee and is the immediate past Chair and current Co-Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Leung earned her law degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1986 and her P.C.LL in 1987.
Ms. Li has been with Baker & McKenzie since 1994 focusing on China intellectual property, technology and pharmaceutical law, specializing in portfolio management, enforcement and litigation, and licensing, franchising, distribution, advertising, sponsorship and transaction support. Ms. Li worked closely with various intellectual property and pharmaceutical industry organizations and played active roles in lobbying for legal and regulatory reforms of various China intellectual property laws and regulations (including the latest amendment to the Chinese Trademark Law and the Trademark Examination Guidelines) throughout the last 13 years. Ms. Li has been appointed arbitrator by four prestigious arbitration bodies, viz, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center, the Asia Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center and the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center . She earned her bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of Toronto (B.Sc., 1989) and her law degrees from Queen's University (LLB, 1992) and University of London (LL.M., 1998). She is also a registered pharmacist.
Ms. Tang joined Baker & McKenzie's Hong Kong office in 1999. Before that, she practiced in commercial law for many years, and immediately before joining Baker & McKenzie, she was a senior solicitor with the Intellectual Property Department of the Hong Kong Government ("HKIPD") for two years. She specializes in regional trade mark registration, strategic planning and management of international trade mark portfolio. During her employment with the HKIPD, she was a hearing officer and also worked closely with the drafting committee in the passage of the current Trade Marks Ordinance and the Trade Marks Rules. She is currently the secretary of the counsel committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Trade Marks Practitioners. She earned her law and commerce degrees from the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1987. She has been named as one of Asia's leading lawyers in the IP area in the annual Asialaw Leading Lawyers Survey 2007.
These hires further solidify Jones Day's Asia IP practice as one of the largest of any full service law firm. Of the Firm's 265 IP lawyers and patent agents worldwide, more than 20 are based throughout Greater China - in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei.
Jones Day (www.jonesday.com) is an international law firm with 30 locations in centers of business and finance throughout the world. With more than 2,200 lawyers, including more than 400 in Europe, and 200 in Asia, it ranks among the world's largest law firms. Jones Day acts as principal outside counsel to, or provides significant legal representation for, more than half of the Fortune Global 500 companies.
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