Intellectual property law practice is a complex area dealing with many aspects of corporate and commercial processes. Close attention must be paid to protecting the intellectual property rights of businesses. This is especially so as in the global economy, intellectual property is a corporation’s most valuable asset and lies at the very core of every product or service brought to the market.
Intellectual property issues do not usually arise on their own; they include other practice areas such as Antitrust/Unfair Competition, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Personal Data Protection. Our wide range of practice areas ensures that our lawyers are skilled at handling these types of complex, cross-practice matters and can provide comprehensive advice in acquiring, enforcing, defending, and exploiting intellectual property rights.
We achieve our clients’ intellectual property objectives effectively and efficiently by combining a deep understanding of a range of intellectual property law with knowledge of our clients’ industries, including the relevant business and regulatory environments.
Our commercial lawyers are experienced in handling intellectual property-based transactions from franchising to technology procurement for a wide variety of clients, from technology startups to major international airlines. Our seasoned intellectual property trial lawyers appear regularly before courts, arbitration panels, and administrative tribunals involved in administering intellectual property law, and have substantial courtroom experience at both the trial and appellate levels.
Key Areas of Practice
In an increasingly robust and cosmopolitan economy accompanied by the evolving nature and scope of commercial transactions, our approach to litigation is grounded on our clients’ trust in our ability to manage their complex commercial disputes, whether domestic or international and regardless of the subject matter. We understand the difficulties and risks of running an international business and we perceive litigation as playing an instrumental role in the prevention and resolution of those risks.
Yet we recognise that protracted litigation can sometimes result in Pyrrhic victories or jeopardise commercial relationships. We provide practical, bespoke solutions tailored to our clients’ business objectives by assessing the risk and cost of litigation against the relative benefits of mediation or settlement.
Litigation was the foundation of our law practice when it began and continues to be a major practice today despite our expansion and establishment in various other disciplines. Our litigation partners are dynamic and each equipped with at least 26 years of experience in wide-ranging areas of commercial matters. They offer a combination of legal insight, industry knowledge and practical business sense necessary to help our clients prevail.
We represent clients at any stage of a dispute in every industry sector including:
- Contractual disputes
- Corporate governance disputes such as shareholder disputes
- Property disputes such as landlord-tenant disputes and valuation matters
- Real estate matters such as sale, purchase or financing of properties
- Tortious disputes such as those involving personal injuries and defamation
- Injunction proceedings
- Employment disputes
- Breach of trust
