Lifang & Partners

ESTABLISHED IN 2002

Managing Partner: Xie Guanbin
Number of partners: 37
Number of associates: 120

Firm Overview

Founded in 2002, Lifang & Partners is an award-winning Chinese law firm headquartered in Beijing, with five other offices in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Seoul. Having experienced rapid growth, Lifang & Partners has expanded from a firm solely focused on IP litigation to one that is able to offer a full range of professional services in additional practice areas such as IP prosecution, dispute resolution, antitrust, compliance, tax, corporate and commercial law.

At the time of our founding, our sole focus was on IP litigation, which is still our core area of practice. We worked hard in this area and delivered high-quality legal services to clients from both public and private sectors, many of whom we still serve today.Lifang & Partners has received several awards, accolades and honours, such as:

• Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020 Band 1 Intellectual Property Litigation Law Firm and Band 4 in Competition Law/Antitrust
• Tier 1 for “Intellectual Property: Contentious”, and Tier 3 for “Intellectual Property: Non-Contentious” in 2020 by Legal 500
• Copyright Firm of the Year 2020 for China by Managing Intellectual Property. Ranked among Asia IP Law Firms since 2010
• Tier 1 Law Firms in both Patents and Trademarks/Copyright rankings in the 2020 ALB China IP Rankings
• A PRC winner of the 2020 China Business Law Awards for Antitrust & Competition, IP (Copyright), Industrials and Manufacturing, and Technology and Telecoms Rankings

At present, we work with a diverse range of clients in a diverse range of industry sectors including life sciences, technology, media and entertainment, journalism, financial services and real estate. We understand the needs of those industries because our team includes skilled professionals with experience working in government technology and IP departments, the judiciary, multinational companies as in-house counsel, R&D, academia and various other areas.

Because we are reliable and can deliver solid results, we have been able to establish long-term collaborative relationships with leading international law firms, and can provide professional legal services without time, jurisdiction or language barriers. Several members of the Lifang & Partners team are multilingual, speaking Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.

Key Practice Areas

Intellectual property law; Antitrust and compliance; Corporate and commercial law; and Dispute resolution.