JunHe, a Beijing-headquartered full-service law firm, is highly regarded for its commercial and intellectual property disputes. The commercial disputes team regularly acts for banking, investment, and insolvency litigation matters, while the IP team is active on trademark, copyright and anti-unfair competition.
Key partners include commercial dispute specialists Yanli Zheng and Weining Zou,
Elvis Zhou as well as labour and employment practitioner Hongjuan Bai.
The firm’s involvement in commercial disputes include representing a geothermal energy development joint venture between a Sinopec subsidiary and Iceland's Arctic Green Energy in petitioning for administrative reconsideration, to successfully withdraw the local government's administrative decision to rescind the franchise agreement and revoke the administrative licence for franchise. The firm also assisted Golden Arche in winning the second instance of a lawsuit regarding environment protection and public welfare.
On the IP front, the firm represented tech giant Amazon in the final trial of the patent invalidation case before the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court. The firm’s patent team received two final judgments from the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court, which upheld two invalidation decisions made by the Patent Re-examination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office and the first instance decisions with respect to such invalidation decisions made by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court and upheld the invalidation of two patents of a non-practicing entity company.
The firm’s dispute resolution team has had a noticeable growth in the past few years, with Xiao (Arthur) Dong and Huili (Vicky) Zhao joining from AnJie Broad Law Firm as partners, Jia (David) Gu joining from TianTong Law Firm, as well as Zhengdong Liu and Chenghao Li who joined from MHP Law Firm as partners. Partners Chenguang (Leon) Liu and Bo (Carol) Sun from YuandaWinston complete the recent additions. The firm’s IP team, additionally, has welcomed Junlin Pan from Mingsu Law Firm as a partner.
The firm’s recent client roster includes Xiaomi, Export and Import Bank of China (Jiangxi branch), JLG Industries, Mendes SA and Oceanwide Holdings.
