King&Wood Mallesons is one of the earliest partnership law firms approved by the Ministry of Justice of China and one of the first Chinese law firms to set up an office overseas.
Founded in 1993, King & Wood is headquartered in Beijing, with offices in Changchun, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, Jinan, Nanjing, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai, Shanghai Lingang, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Wuxi, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Japan, and Silicon Valley and New York. King & Wood has become the largest and leading comprehensive law firm in China, with more than 3,700 lawyers providing quality legal services to clients with different needs around the world.
Most of King & Wood's lawyers graduated from prestigious law schools at home and abroad, and many of them have worked or practiced in internationally renowned law firms. King & Wood's outstanding business ability is reflected in the full range of legal services. Whether in our traditional areas of strength, such as bank financing, foreign investment, corporate affairs, international trade, dispute resolution, and securities, or in emerging areas of practice, such as intellectual property protection, labor law, bankruptcy, non-performing assets, financial derivatives, asset securitization, venture capital, and leveraged buyouts, King&Wood lawyers have always been at the forefront of legal services.
King&Wood believes in a teamwork philosophy and culture. The firm-wide coordinated system allows lawyers in each department and branch office to share documents, cases, human resources and experience, thus building King&Wood into a close-knit and united law firm. Over the years, King & Wood's outstanding achievements have earned it a high reputation and recognition amongst the business community and peers at home and abroad. King & Wood aspires to be the leading integrated law firm in the Asia Pacific region.
King&Wood has a highly internationalized and professional team of lawyers, most of whom graduated from law schools of prestigious universities at home and abroad. Many of our partners and lawyers have extensive experience in multinational legal services, having practiced and worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Japan and other countries as well as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
The background of studying and working overseas and the long-term experience of providing legal services to various foreign clients have equipped King & Wood Mallesons with the ability to work skillfully in a variety of foreign languages. Chinese and English are the basic working languages of King&Wood, and some of our lawyers can also work in German, French, Japanese, Korean and other foreign languages.
King&Wood has a combination of specialized division of labor and teamwork, with partners and attorneys in each practice area who are well versed and experienced in that area of the law, and each practice team can quickly obtain full support from other practice teams and offices around the world when needed.
Since March 1, 2012, King&Wood has had a close alliance with Mallesons Stephen Jaques, one of Australia's leading law firms.
King&Wood has extensive experience in IP risk management, IP strategy development, technology cooperation negotiations and other IP-related legal matters, as well as litigation, arbitration, mediation proceedings and other IP disputes.
The IP-related legal services provided by King&Wood include:
-Legal advice on patent rights, utility models, designs, trademark rights, software, copyrights of music and movies. Among the technical fields covered are equipment and apparatus, electronic and electrical appliances, communication systems, broadcasting and television, software, printing, civil engineering and construction, chemicals, food and cosmetics.
-Representation in infringement litigation, invalidation and revocation litigation, arbitration, and mediation cases.
-Drafting, advising, and negotiating intellectual property license contracts, assignment contracts, security contracts, joint research and development contracts, and software development consignment contracts in Chinese, Japanese, and English.
-Provides legal advice related to functional inventions and functional works.
