Lifang & Partners was established in 2002 succeeding an intellectual property protection center founded in 1996 called J&Y Partners. The firm has since established a reputation as one of China's leading practitioners of intellectual property law and has also developed a diverse range of commercial practice areas. Lifang & Partners continues to grow rapidly and provides high-quality legal services and business solutions based on a profound knowledge of PRC law and practice and an understanding of each individual client.
Our lawyers and legal support staffs are a mixture of experience and youth with a diversity of professional and academic backgrounds. The firm is has 9 partners and over 40 qualified lawyers including foreign legal counsel and senior consultants who were formerly respected jurists. The emphasis of the firm's practice is towards providing services in technologically advanced industrial sectors and we have Chinese, English, Japanese and French language capabilities. Our main practice areas include:
- Intellectual property
- International trade law
- Corporate and commercial law
- Foreign direct investment
- Media and entertainment
- Insurance and financial services
- Energy and sustainable development law
- Real estate
- Dispute resolution
The firm also works closely with the Beijing Intellectual Property Institute, a research center dedicated to IPR issues that provides research support to the firm and consists of permanent and guest academics and industry specialists.
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