Legal Career Briefs

Mr. Bill has been practising Chinese intellectual property laws including trademark, patent and copyright in two top tier Chinese IP law firms in their Beijing headquarter offices and Chinese commercial laws in three well-known international law firms - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP and CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, in their Shanghai representative offices, and as the General Legal Counsel of a famous multi-national company in its China head office for more than seven years after his graduations. Mr. Bill’s practice exposure extends from negotiating, reviewing and drafting various agreements, to involvement in major merger and acquisition, foreign direct investment, joint venture transactions, initial public offering, dispute resolution, anti-trust filing in cross-border merger and acquisitions, and corporate governance/restructuring as well as employment matters. In addition, he is also well versed in the contentious and noncontentious aspects of intellectual property prosecution and enforcement, license and transfer as well as audit and due diligence.

Before joining China Sunbow & Associates, Mr. Bill has already accumulated substantial experience in Chinese intellectual property and commercial laws practice, particularly in foreign direct investments in China, especially in Shanghai and its neighboring Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces, merging and acquiring equity or assets of Chinese enterprises by foreign investors, international trade, employment and labor, corporate compliance, governance and restructuring as well as resolving various commercial disputes through mediation, arbitration and litigation in China. During working in the three international law firms, Mr. Bill had advised many joint ventures and wholly foreign owned enterprises on their commercial legal business and intellectual property issues in China. He had assisted many foreign investors in establishing and maintaining their business and operation in China, accessing into Chinese markets, applying for various governmental permissions, approvals and licenses, etc. He had extensive involvement with structuring and maintaining foreign investments in many main business regions throughout China. He had also dealt with many China related cross-border transactions for domestic and international clients and had drafted various legal documents in English and Chinese required for such transactions.

Apart from practice in international law firms for Chinese commercial laws for many years, Mr. Bill had also accumulated substantial experience in and practised Chinese intellectual property laws with more focus on prosecution of Chinese trademarks and patents, IP protection strategies, transfer, license and custom recordal, protection of technology and know-how, IP enforcement through administrative and juridical methods, IP audit and due diligence during the cross-border merger and acquisition, IP investigation and anti-counterfeit, etc. He had represented many foreign enterprises and individuals in registering and prosecuting various Chinese trademarks, patents, copyrights and software. He had successfully raided many Chinese infringers for counterfeiting trademarks of our foreign clients. He had also successfully counseling and assisting several foreign enterprises in identifying their trademarks as well-known trademarks with the China Trademark Office. Moreover, he had advised many Chinese and foreign enterprises on importing and exporting technology to or from China.

Representative Matters

- FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

- MERGE & ACQUISITION

- DISPUTES RESOLUTION

- COPORATE GOVERNANCE

- TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

- BOOKS

- PROFESSIONAL CHINA LEGAL WATCH ARTICLES

Mr. Bill had also co-authored the following articles while with his former international law firms:

University, Degree & Major

	LLM, Chinese Civil & Commercial Law, Peking University Law School
	B.A, English Language and Literatur, Central South University