Geoffrey Lin has left Hogan Lovells to join the Shanghai office of Ropes & Gray as a partner. Lin will be working with corporate lawyers at the firm, which set up its Shanghai office in July, to value the IP assets within deals and to structure the transactions.
This is the latest in a series of lawyer moves between foreign law firms in China within the last 12 months. In November last year Weishi Li left O'Melveney & Myers to join Bird & Bird. Since then Douglas Clark has left Hogan Lovells to become a barrister in Hong Kong and Catherine Sun has resigned from Foley & Lardner to set up her own firm. Yan Zhao has also left Foley & Lardner to join DLA Piper. Benjamin Bai has joined Allen & Overy from Jones Day, which then hired Horace Lam from Hogan Lovells. |
Americas
Brian Pollack has joined Chadbourne & Park in New York. He was previously with Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis has been elected secretary of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Cendali heads Kirkland & Ellis' copyright, trade mark and internet group.
After two years at geophysical services company WesternGeco AS in Norway, Richard V Wells has returned to Baker & McKenzie in its Washington, DC, office.
Patent litigator Robin McGrath has joined Paul Hastings in Atlanta. She was previously at Alston + Bird.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has opened a Silicon Valley office with former King & Spalding attorneys Paul J Andre and Lisa Kobialka.
Richard Wells has returned to Baker & McKenzie's Washington, DC office following two years at Norway geophysical services company WesternGeco AS.
Asia
Sanjay Kumar left his position as partner at Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan in India to form his own law firm – Perfexio Legal. He is working alongside two other partners and four associates.
Vinay Dwarkadas has left IP boutique RK Dewan & Co in India to act as general counsel for Gadhia Solar Energy Systems, a solar energy system producer.
Full-service law firm KhattarWong has appointed Jim Lim in Singapore to head its IP and technology department
Europe
UK attorney firm Forresters has finalised its takeover of Liverpool-based Potts Kerr & Co. The firm, which already has offices in London and Birmingham, took a stake in the business three years ago, but the Merseyside operation retained its own name.
The European Patent Office has been recruiting a Brussels-based lobbyist to coordinate its relationships with other European institutions, and to serve "as the EPO's eyes and ears in Brussels".
ICANN has appointed Xavier Calvez as chief financial officer. The Frenchman, who joined from a firm called the Technicolor Corporation, has previously worked at multinational organisations such as KPMG and Deloitte.
The UK IPO has appointed Neil Feinson as director of international policy. Feinson previously worked in the government's Department of Energy and Climate Change.
The Latvian Patent Office has appointed Reinis Berzins as its new director. He has worked for the telecoms company Lattelecom and served as a parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Justice.
Jacqueline Bore has joined DLA Piper's London office from Arnold & Porter, as the firm focuses on expanding its biopharmaceutical regulatory law profile.
French IP firm Lavoix has opened an office in Rennes. The office is its fifth in France, and is designed to service local clients particularly in the electronics industries. The firm also has an office in Munich.
Mathys & Squire has expanded its Manchester, UK office with the hire of European and UK patent attorney David Martin from Marks & Clerk. Since the office was set up in 2008 by Gary Johnston, it has grown consistently.