DLA Piper today announced the appointment of Yan Zhao as a partner (effective 11 July 2011) in its Asia Intellectual Property team. Yan is a leading intellectual property practitioner with more than 13 years’ experience in China. His practice covers patent prosecution and patent litigation work as well as other general IP work. Yan will be based in Shanghai but will also spend a significant amount of time in DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office. Yan joined DLA Piper from Foley & Lardner where he was Senior Counsel.
“Our IP team in PRC and Hong Kong is an integral part of the one of the largest and most successful Intellectual Property teams in the world consisting of nearly 400 lawyers and over 120 partners in 30 countries around the world. Yan’s arrival reflects just how serious our commitment is to building a market leading IP capability in China and is big step forward in achieving this goal. Indeed, over the coming months we are hoping to be able to make additional announcements about the further strengthening of our IP offering in China.” said Matthew Glynn, Partner and Head of IPT for DLA Piper in Asia.
Lance Miller, Asia Regional Managing Partner, DLA Piper, said: “Yan’s joining is an important step in taking our China IP practice to the next level. We have seen exponential growth of our IP practice across Asia in the past 12 months carrying out work for many multi-national corporations with IP needs throughout the region.”
Yan Zhao said: “I am delighted to be joining DLA Piper at this exciting time for the development of the firm’s IP practice. I am looking forward to working with my colleagues not just in Asia but around the world to further grow DLA Piper’s IP practice.”
Yan is admitted to practice as a lawyer in New York and China and as a patent attorney in China and Singapore. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
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