Lifang & Partners

Intellectual Property/Dispute Resolution

Senior Partner

Ms. Zhang has 19 years’ experience in legal practice, primarily involving intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition matters. She has extensive experience in handling dispute resolution and transactional matters relating to trademarks, copyright, patents, unfair competition, trade secrets, domain names, technology contracts and corporate intellectual property arrangements.

Ms. Zhang has represented clients in many important cases before the Supreme People’s Court, provincial High People’s Courts, and in cases of significant public interest that have received wide media coverage from CCTV, provincial satellite TV and Legal Daily. Several of her cases have been listed as Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases or Top 10 Software Cases.

Since 2012, Ms. Zhang has been recognized in Chambers as a leading IP lawyer. Chambers once quoted a client as having said: “She has extensive experience in litigation and gives us well-structured and to-the-point advice.” She was also praised for being a “very strong, detailed and professional lawyer… [Who] drills down into the issues and executes well.” Ms. Zhang was recognised as an “ALB China Female Lawyer” in October 2016.

Ms. Zhang is retained as counsel by a number of high-tech, cultural and creative companies, that she advises on corporate management, contracts, shareholding structures, labour issues, and investment disputes. Her clients include American Superconductor, Microsoft, Business Software Alliance, Adobe, Autodesk, Siemens, Dassault, Trimble, Foundry, Bestseller, Heinz, Trend Micro, Alibaba, Twinhead, Ting Hsin Group (Master Kong), Wanfang Data, Chukong Technology (Cocos), Enlight Media, Canxing, CESEC, CRCC, CMBC, PICC, China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation, Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, the Beijing Times, GXT Communications, Genghai Real Estate, Fenyu China, Dayin Huadian, Helar Music and Land Smart Solutions.

Chinese/English

- LLM, Civil and Commercial Law, Law School of Peking University.

- LLB, Intellectual Property Law, Law School of Northeastern University.