26th Floor, Wen Xin United Press Tower
755 Weihai Road, Shanghai, 200041
CHINA
Tel: (8621) 5292 1111; (8621) 6350 0777
Fax: (8621) 5292 1001; (8621) 6272 6366
Email: mail@watson-band.com.cn
Website: www.watson-band.com.cn
Contact: George FU
Total number of partners: 5
Total number of lawyers: 55
Year established: 1995
Languages spoken: English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Russian, French
Key areas of practice: We offer a full range of legal services relating to the acquisition, enforcement and prosecution of intellectual property assets. We also assist our clients with commercial and IP litigation, investment, corporate affairs, banking, financing, insurance, real property, commercial transactions, taxation, employment, and numerous other interests in China.
The Firm
Founded in 1995, WATSON & BAND has grown into a full-service law firm with more than 126 professionals around China. We provide the highest quality services for our clients and enjoy a nationwide reputation as one of the most prominent law firms in China. This excellence and breadth of experience has made us the firm of choice for many of the world’s leading companies and financial institutions as they seek sophisticated legal service for their diverse legal and business transactions.
WATSON & BAND’s lawyers are well-known for our commitment to the representation of our clients’ interests in China and throughout the world. We offer a full range of client-oriented services in multiple languages. Our goal is to be the firm of choice for clients with respect to their most challenging legal disputes and their most critical business transactions. Our profound collaborative culture ensures that every matter undertaken by our firm is afforded the direct personal attention of knowledgeable partners.
Personalized Service
• Corporate and Commercial Service
Watson & Band is highly regarded for providing professional and innovative legal and commercial advice and making good use of long-term cooperative relationships with government authorities and professional institutes in order to meet the individualized needs of each of our clients. We offer numerous services to assist leading multinational enterprises who specialize in diverse industries.
• Litigation and Arbitration Service
Watson & Band has an experienced professional litigation and arbitration team, which includes former judges, senior lawyers, IPR experts and law professors. Team members work closely with other groups to execute a well-designed litigation strategy to protect the legal rights and interests of our clients. We have represented clients in many landmark litigations and arbitrations, including China’s first patent infringement case between foreign entities and China’s first well-known trademark recognition case. Because of the unprecedented nature of many cases we have worked on, we have been able to set precedents for future rulings in many areas of the law.
• Intellectual Property Service
Watson & Band is a premier law firm in China authorized by the Chinese Administration Department to furnish intellectual property related services for domestic and international clients. We have established a detailed processing system to ensure the quality of our services in IPR prosecution. Having successfully resolved many pressing questions affecting these growing industries, we provide our clients with a full range of services to meet all of their intellectual property needs.
Delivering the Best
“Truthfulness, Prudence, Professionalism and Dedication” is the philosophy of Watson & Band. Each attorney is expected to demonstrate at every opportunity these fundamental values that have attracted clients to Watson & Band. We take the time to understand clients’ business needs in order to ensure the quality of our legal services. We aim to be a strategic partner for each of our clients, leveraging our expertise and experience to provide innovative, responsive, and cost-effective legal solutions. At Watson & Band, our highest priority is to deliver the best of the firm to every client.
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