Fangda Partners
Firm overview:
Founded in 1993, Fangda Partners is a full-service, single integrated partnership law firm advising on PRC and Hong Kong laws. The firm has approximately 800 lawyers in six offices in major Chinese cities: Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
In intellectual property, Fangda has an established appellate litigation and advocacy practice and has successfully argued cases before provincial high courts and the PRC Supreme Court. The firm advised on cross-border matters and has clients in many industries on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets and IP-related antitrust law matters.
Team overview:
Fangda’s team consists of lawyers qualified in Australia, England and Wales, Singapore, U.S., Hong Kong and the PRC.
Alexandra Yang is an IP trial lawyer focused on high-profile IP and antitrust litigation. Yang advises and works with multinational and high-tech companies in telecommunications, electronics, pharmaceuticals and IT on global IP issues.
Key matters:
- Fangda advised New Balance in trademark infringement actions against a Chinese individual, successfully reducing the damages by 95%.
- Fangda advised Michael Jordan, the basketball player, in a series of cases against Qiaodan Sports Company for its registration of Mr. Jordan’s name as a company name and of trademarks before the PRC Supreme Court.
- Fangda advised Tesla Motors to successfully recover the right to use the “TESLA” trademark in China against a trademark squatter that registered the same trademark.
Clients:
New Balance, Tesla Motors, Guess?, Louis Vuitton, The North Face Apparel, Sony Computer Entertainment, NEC
