Lifang & Partners

Managing Partners: Xie Guanbi
Number of partners: 70+
Number of lawyers: 200+
Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French

Firm Overview:
Founded in 2002, Lifang & Partners is a full-service law firm with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Haikou and Seoul, South Korea. The firm is a leader in the practice areas of intellectual property, antitrust and competition law, dispute resolution, securities, capital markets and other areas.

Main Areas of Practice 

Intellectual Property
35 partners; 200+ fee earners (including prosecution team)
■ IP Prosecution:
- Patent Prosecution key clients: Samsung, Tencent, and others
Partner: Xie Guanbin, Du Shaohui
- Trademark registration and right confirmation key clients: American Superconductor, Waters Technologies Corporation, Voice of China, China State Construction Engineering Corporation
Partner: Zhang Yan, Wang Xiao
- Copyright registration key clients: Samsung, Canxing, Youku, Trend Micro, Johnson Entertainment LLC, Game Space Co. Ltd.
Partner: Zhang Bin
■ IP Litigation: Representation of Samsung in their patent disputes with Huawei, during a series of litigations filed by each of the two parties that involve several dozen patents, including standard essential patents
Partners: Xie Guanbin, Zhang Yuanyuan
Representation of Rhodia patent infringement and invalidation litigations
Partners: Xie Guanbin
- Representation of Microsoft in several infringement actions
Partner: Zhang Bin
- Representation of American Superconductor in a copyright and unfair competition dispute worth RMB 3 billion
Partner: Xie Guanbin, Zhang Bin
- Representation of Heinz in trademark and unfair competition disputes
Partners: Xie Guanbin, Zhang Lei
- Representation of Adobe in copyright infringement litigation with Ourpalm
Partners: Zhang Bin
Key Clients: Samsung, Solvay, Adobe, Dyson, Microsoft, Heinz, AGC, Sony, Segay-Ninebot, Autodesk, Trimble
Contact: Xie Guanbin
Tel: +86 10 6409 6099
Email: [email protected]

Antitrust & Unfair Competition:
3 partners; 15 fee earners
■ Representation of Samsung in SEP litigations with Huawei
Partner: Xie Guanbin, Jiao Shan
■Representation of Samsung in their rate-setting litigation disputes with Ericsson
Partner: Xie Guanbin, Jiao Shan
■ Representation of Qihoo360 in an unfair competition dispute with Tencent.
Partner: Xie Guanbin
■ Representation of Enlight Media in an unfair competition dispute related to the movie Lost in Thailand
Partner: Xie Guanbin, Zhang Bin
■ Consultation to the NDRC in respect of antitrust investigations into Qualcomm.
Partner: Xie Guanbin, Jiao Shan
■ Representation of an industry association on filing a complaint with the NDRC against SEP holders. The case settled with the SEP holders promising stop relevant wrongdoings
Partner: Xie Guanbin, Jiao Shan
Key Clients: Samsung, American Superconductor, Xiaomi and others.
Contacts: Xie Guanbin, Jiao Shan
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Compliance:
2 partners; 10 fee earners
■ Establishing an export control compliance system for a State-Owned Enterprise directly under SASAC in the communications industry.
■ Advised Tencent in its establishment of data compliance system.
■ Minor protection project for Sina.com.
■ Producing quarterly data security review on China data privacy protection issues for a Germany data company. 
■ Advised Trend Micro in overall compliance investigation on the daily operation of the company.
■ Advised a multinational company in security product/service regulatory license compliance matter.
Partners: Xie Guanbin, Qin Ying
Key Clients: Sina, SK Hynix, Vokswagen
Contacts: Xie Guanbin, Qin Ying
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Corporate, Commercial and Dispute Resolution:
30 partners; 60 fee earners
■ Representing Bank of China, CMBC, Industrial Bank, BOC Fullerton Community Bank, Hubei Bank and others in the financial litigations, including a financial loan dispute between CMBC, the Shide Fraction and the Jiuce Fraction involving several billion RMB and also a dispute over a banker’s acceptance bill between industrial bank and an enterprise in Hubei that involved RMB 500 million
Partners: Hu Yiguang, Cai Hui, Chai Yi
■ Representing PICC P&C, China Life, Anbang Insurance, Greatwall Life for insurance litigations and insurance capital investments, also providing other insurance legal services
Partners: Hu Yiguang, Cai Hui, Chai Yi
■ Serving as the external legal counsel to China Development Bank, CMBC, China Citic Bank, China Everbright Bank and others
■ Representation of Founder Securities in a dispute over the assignment of RMB 361 million in debt
■ Representation of China South Railway Wuchang Vehicle Plant in a leasing dispute worth around RMB 400 million
■ Representation of Hubei Heji Investment Co. in a dispute related to an equity transfer deal worth RMB 650 million
Key Clients: IBM, Intel, CNPIEC, HNA, China South Railway, China Minsheng Banking, Export- Import Bank of China, China United Network Communications and others.
Contacts: Hu Yiguang; Chai Yi
Tel: +86 10 6409 6099
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Capital Markets and Securities:
3 partners; 10 fee earners
Key Clients: Microsoft, Pacific Securities
Contacts: Zheng Xilin
Email: [email protected]