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Feng Liu
Liu Feng Senior Partner
IP and Technology Innovation
Dispute Resolution
Corporate and M&A
Criminal Law
Detailed introduction
Attorney LIU is a senior partner in Dentons Shanghai office. He is a senior lawyer, a senior economist, as well as having a master's degree in MBA, and has over 26 years of experience in legal practice. He has worked in state-owned enterprises for more than 10 years and served as a corporate executive.Attorney LIU specializes in intellectual property, major commercial dispute resolution, corporate compliance, M&As, and financial management etc, and is especially adept at handling difficult and complex legal issues and providing comprehensive legal services and value-added services for clients.
Attorney LIU is currently a civil & administrative expert of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the director of the Intellectual Property Rights Commission of the Shanghai Bar Association, a director of Shanghai Intellectual Property Service Industry Association, a director of the Intellectual Property Research Association of the Shanghai Law Society, a mediator of Shanghai Economic and Trade Commercial Mediation Center, a director of China (Shanghai) Free Trade Experimental Zone Intellectual Property Association, a distinguished expert of China Folk Arts Legal Service Center, a member of the Lawyers team of Legal Advisory Commission of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, a member of ""Consumer Protection Legal Expert Service Group"" in Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission, a specially-invited mediator of Shanghai Pudong New Area Professional People's Mediation Center, an independent director of several listed companies including Shanghai Jiao Da Onlly Co., Ltd and has served as a member of the Expert Demonstration Commissions of the Shanghai High People's Court for numerous times. Meanwhile, attorney LIU has served as an instructor for East China University of Political Science, Tongji University, Shanghai Lawyers College and Wenzhou University, providing multiple levels of instruction for lawyers many times. He also cooperated with the ""Bai Qian Qian Program"" launched by the All China Lawyers Association, providing professional lawyer training for lawyers in Guizhou, Xinjiang, Yunnan, and other areas. In addition, he has been a guest lawyer for the programs Party A, Party B and First Finance on Shanghai Television and the program Lawyers Community sponsored by the Shanghai Bar Association.
Attorney LIU has served as a legal adviser or provided legal services for dozens of large state-owned enterprises, foreign enterprises and institutions, including but not limited to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 633 Research Institute of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Ltd., China Railway Signal & Communication Shanghai Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai Guosheng Group Shengrong Industrial Co. Ltd., Shanghai Office of China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Industry Co., Ltd, Shanghai Tianan Insurance Company, Shanghai Xin Yang Industrial Park Management Committee, Traditional Chinese Medicine and OTC Division of Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co., Ltd., Shanghai Lei Yun Shang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Sinopharm Holding Hutchison Whampoa (Shanghai) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shanghai Hutchison Whampoa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xing Hua Lou (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Urban Development Group Jiadeli Supermarket Co., Ltd., DBS Bank, Japan Tsumura Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan Zhengying Industrial Combustion Equipment Co., Ltd., etc.
Attorney LIU uses his familiarity with company operations and intellectual property protection to improve corporate governance structures and standardize modes of operation for enterprises. Through administrative and litigation means, he has won the honour of ""Well-Known Trademark in China"" for many enterprises and enhanced their brand influence and popularity. At the same time, attorney LIU also actively promotes intellectual property capitalization. He has provided full process services for funds, capital management plans and industrial funds for China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd., trust companies and listed companies. He has been responsible for and participated in many joint ventures, M&As and equity transfers of large enterprises, for example, he participated in the negotiation of China's large aircraft project with Collins Co. of USA, the joint venture project of Shanghai Hutchison Whampoa Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. and the equity acquisition of Qingdao Guofeng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., etc. Attorney LIU has represented many influential companies in equity disputes, debt disputes and intellectual property cases such as trademarks, patents, copyrights and unfair competition, and has creatively completed litigation for the clients.
Government Businesses
• Served as a civil & administrative expert of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
• Served as a legal advisor of Shanghai Fengxian District People's Government
• Served as a member of the Lawyers team of Legal Advisory Commission of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology
• Served as a member of ""Consumer Protection Legal Expert Service Group"" in Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission
• Served as a specially-invited mediator of Shanghai Pudong New Area Professional People's Mediation Center
• Served as a Shanghai Intellectual Property Civil Dispute mediator
• Served as a legal expert of Jiangsu Information Network Security Association
Intellectual Property
Litigation:
• Shanghai Kaiying Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Zhina Network Technology Co., Ltd.: Represented clients in a copyright infringement dispute against Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd.. The case is currently the highest amount of compensation (CNY 50 million) awarded by Chinese courts for online games. The case not only won the 2020 China Business Law Journal Outstanding Transaction Award, but also was successfully selected in the ""White Paper"" of Hunan High People's Court on the judicial protection of intellectual property rights in the province in 2020 and one of the ""Top 10 Most Valuable Research Cases in China Pan-Entertainment"".
• Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co., Ltd.: Advised and won through applications and litigation, the honour of ""Well-Known Trademark in China"" for a number of its subsidiaries, including: the ""Shangyao"" Well-Known Trademark project, the ""Shenxiang"" Ginseng Well-Known Trademark project, and the ""Leishi"" pharmaceutical health product Well-Known Trademark project. Handled litigation cases of patents, trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets and external licensing of IP rights, etc. for a number of its subsidiaries.
• Donghao Lansheng (Group) Co., Ltd.: Handled a series of unfair competition cases of ""Lansheng"" trademark and brand name rights infringements.
• Shanghai Octmami Network Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Octmami Clothing Co., Ltd.: Provided legal services to defend the brand ""Shiyue Mami (Octmami)"" and took various means to defend the rights against infringers, such as opposition, re-examination and administrative litigation, and filed lawsuits for trademark infringement and unfair competition to successfully make the brand ""Shiyue Mami (Octmami)"" as a ""Well-Known Trademark in China"".
• Shanghai Leiyunshang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: filed a lawsuit against a company in Guangdong for maliciously registering the trademark ""Leishi"", and after many rounds of struggle, the brand ""Leishi"" has become a ""Well-Known Trademark in China"".
• Shanghai Ifchange Information Technology Co., Ltd.: Represented the client in trade secret infringement and unfair competition disputes against Qianjin Network Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (51 Job) and Beijing Zhilian Sanke Talent Service Co., Ltd., and finally won the first and second trial for the client.
• Qinghai Qidi Qingyuan New Materials Co., Ltd: Represented the client against Jiangsu Jiuwu Technology Co., Ltd in the second instance trial of a patent infringement dispute. Through the efforts of attorney LIU, the Supreme People's Court accepted his arguments and finally facilitated a mediation plan in our clients’ favour, which involved a total amount of hundreds of millions of CNY.
• Guangzhou Yuda Electronics Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Shengbaile Electroacoustic Technology Co., Ltd.: Handled the case of utility model patent infringement against Jiangxi Chuangcheng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. and forced the Plaintiff withdraw the lawsuit and recovered the clients’ huge loss of nearly CNY 180 million.
• Shanghai Beibian Technology Co., Ltd.: Represented the client in a patent invalidation case against its main competitor, and finally successfully invalidated most of the opponent's patent rights.
• Large Chinese private chemical group: Represented the group in patent contention, anti-unfair competition, and anti-commercial slander infringement lawsuits against one of the 500 largest chemical groups in the world.
• Multi-national Malaysian Group: Carried out investigations, evidence collection, evidence preservation, and infringement litigation against enterprises that infringed on clients’ computer software copyrights, effectively maintaining its interests.
• Shanghai Jiao Da Onlly Co., Ltd.: Provided copyright defence lawsuits to prevent others' infringement.
• Shanghai Xing Hua Lou (Group) Co., Ltd.: Handled a series of litigation on the company's brand and copyright.
• Shanghai Dianqiao Industrial Development Co., Ltd.: Handled a lawsuit with Zhejiang Longsheng Group Co., Ltd. over patent infringement involving an amount of CNY 100 million.
Non-Litigation:
• Shanghai Film (Group) Co., Ltd.: Provided legal services for over 1,800 film and TV productions to sort out the copyright and carry out a series of rights protection actions. This project was awarded the ""Best IP Project of the Year 2021"" of Dentons China.
• Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Ltd.: Participated in the negotiations for its technical cooperation matters in a large Chinese aircraft project with Collins Co. of USA, facilitating technical cooperation.
• PACC (Shanghai Public Art Cooperation Center): Provided comprehensive legal services for its intangible cultural heritage projects, which receiving an award from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
• Shanghai Songheng Network Technology Co., Ltd. (Oriental Headlines): Sorted out the company's main business and intellectual property assets, put forward diverse response plans for different legal risks, and proposed constructive and high-quality solutions for its overall business operation direction and development strategy.
• ALIT Biotech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.: Provided a special IPR layout project for the client before the listing of its products on the STAR Market. As the client independently developed a certain high-end cell analysis instrument and designed several technical solutions, in order to prevent and avoid the risk of patent infringement, attorney LIU was entrusted to conduct a full set of IPR layout and protection projects, including patent application, re-examination and FTO due diligence, before the product went into production and was listed on the STAR Market.
• Shanghai Ruiyu Biotech Co., Ltd.: Provided legal services for its cooperation with a key university on the research and development of a tumour drug-sensitive analysis technology, and jointly declared the key special project of ""medical equipment and biomedical materials"" to the State Ministry of Science and Technology.
Major Commercial Dispute Resolution
• Fujian Aviation Industry Co., Ltd.: Represented the client in its land dispute appeal with Fuqing Natural Resources and Planning Bureau and won the case. Ultimately, the second instance reversed the first instance judgment and also revoked the Decision on Resumption of State-owned Construction Land Use Right made by the Appellee, Fuqing Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, successfully saving the Appellant's economic loss of over CNY 110 million. This type of case is one of the very few successful cases in which the enterprises were recovered land without compensation.
• Donghao Lansheng (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Arts & Crafts Import & Export Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Foreign Economic & Trade Industry Co., Ltd: Represented three clients (the Defendants) in a dispute with the Plaintiff, an investment management company, in a dispute over liability for damage to the interests of the company's creditors, in which the investment company requested the three clients to bear the third party, Shanghai East Best Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd. unlimited joint liability. The case belongs to a relatively rare type of litigation at present. After the efforts of attorney LIU, the court of first instance issued a ruling dismissing the Plaintiff's suit. The Plaintiff appealed and tried to exert pressure by writing to the court and other government departments several times during the appeal period, but the court of second instance still upheld the original ruling. The lawyer successfully avoided the risk of subsequent recovery for the three clients.
• Shanghai East Best Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd.: Represented the client in a series of debt dispute cases. At that time, the client was in a state of hinterland, facing the claims of creditors on one hand, and the need to pursue external claims on the other. However, due to the illegal and irregular operation of the client's former executives, the client's internal financial and business information were destroyed, resulting in the lack of effective evidence that could be provided to the court, both in the face of the creditor's lawsuit and the separate external recovery. Through continuous defence and cross-examination, attorney LIU forced the creditors to provide more background evidence, and made up for the missing financial documents and other evidence of the client. Attorney LIU's team used the evidence provided by the creditors in the external claims litigation, and achieved a complete victory in the external claims litigation.
Corporate Compliance
• Donghao Lansheng (Group) Co., Ltd.: Represented the group by providing comprehensive legal services throughout the compliance matters in which its affiliates were involved, with comprehensive service content touching on due diligence, negotiations and the handling of civil litigation and criminal cases.
• Zhejiang Weihai Holding Group Co., Ltd.: Provided permanent legal counsel services for such listed companies, including comprehensive services such as compliance management of daily operation of enterprises, investment consultation and litigation consultation.
• Shanghai Hutchison Whampoa Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.: Participated in the whole process of establishing as a joint venture, including but not limited to participation in negotiations, review and determination of tangible and intangible assets, participation in valuation and other comprehensive legal services.
• Kawasaki Motorcycle (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.: Provided compliance review and legal advice and issued legal assistance on Rideology APP compliance project.
M&As
• Joy Air Holding Co., Ltd.: Appointed by SOE client to provide full legal services for the equity disposal projects of its subsidiary Shanghai Tongfei Investment Co., Ltd. and its subsidiary Xingfuyun General Aviation Co., Ltd., including but not limited to preliminary due diligence, legal analysis at different stages, participation in negotiations and completion of the final settlement of the disposal of the two projects.
• Shanghai Leiyunshang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: Represented the client in the invalidation of the equity transfer agreement with a Shanghai investment management company. The Court finally fully supported the claim filed by attorney LIU and confirmed the invalidity of the share transfer contract signed between an investment management company and an outsider. Attorney LIU successfully recovered the illegally transferred shares for the client.
• Shanghai Xin Yang Industrial Co., Ltd.: Handled the project of equity transfer for its acquisition of a Sino-Japanese joint venture, Rihong Stainless Steel (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.. Related parties included a leading Japanese company, Hanwa Co., Ltd. and a large Chinese SOE, China Baowu Steel Group Co., Ltd.
• China Export Commodity Base Construction Shanghai Co., Ltd.: Provided full legal services for its equity disposal project with China Export Commodity Base Construction Co., Ltd..
• Shanghai Haihe Property Development Co., Ltd.: Provided specialized legal services regarding the disposal of its ""Daily Garden"" project, including but not limited to reviewing the background information provided by the client and making suggestions and countermeasures on the potential legal risks involved; assisting the client in reviewing, drafting and revising the relevant legal documents of the Daily Garden project; participating in the whole process of negotiation with other creditors; assisting in the whole process of aftercare services for the Daily Garden project, etc.
• Shanghai Huisheng Agricultural Development Co., Ltd.: Provided full legal services for its state-owned equity exit project, including participating in the negotiation process; assisting the client in reviewing, drafting and revising the relevant legal documents of the project, and finally successfully completing the registration of the equity exit.
• Qingdao Guofeng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: Provided comprehensive services on its equity acquisition projects.
Overseas Liquidation
• Joy Air Holding Co., Ltd.: Led by attorney LIU, together with a team of over 15 lawyers from Sethavitou Notary Public in Cambodia, we provided full legal services in relation to the divestment project of one of the client's airlines, which took three years to complete the entire entrustment. The legal services included: assisting the airline company to apply for suspension of flights, proper relocation of employees, and withdrawal from other investment projects; retaining the airline company's airline operating license; assisting the airline company to conduct an audit, obtain tax clearance certificates, and conduct its own liquidation; assisting the client in the transfer of its indirectly held equity interests in the airline company's affiliates; cooperating with the client to compile, organize and review supporting documents and materials related to this project; sorting out the milestones of the project; issuing legal opinions on the progress of work and other legal consulting services related to the project, etc.
Financial Management
• China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd.: Provided comprehensive legal services on funds, capital management planning, and industry funds for the client, trust companies and listed companies.
• Shanghai East Best Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd.: Represented the client in a financial loan dispute against Bank of Wenzhou. Attorney LIU finally forced Bank of Wenzhou (the Plaintiff) to withdraw the lawsuit, breaking the success record of the bank suing its client.
• Financial loan dispute between Agricultural Bank of China and a Shanghai company (the client)
• Factoring contract dispute between a Shanghai factoring company and Shanghai Zhongtiaoshan International and Shanghai East Best Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd. (the client)
Criminal Defence
• Crime of Illegal Absorption of Public Deposits with CNY 1.38 billion by Weixing LI and his four companies: the case is Shanghai's first one after the famous Wu Ying case in Zhejiang, involving more than 3300 people, the court adopted the defence of attorney LIU and changed the nature of the case from the ""fund-raising fraud"" felony to a ""illegal absorption of public deposits"" misdemeanour and sentenced the Defendant to 9 years in prison.
• Crime of Bribe-taking by a deputy chief economist of China Railway Signal & Communication Shanghai Group Co., Ltd.: After careful comparison and research, attorney LIU successfully started the trial supervision procedure, and finally the original verdict was reversed by the Supreme People's Court, based on the principle of ""uniqueness and exclusivity"" of the prosecution's evidence.
• Crime of Embezzlement by the general manager of a real estate company under the State Capital Committee of Xuhui District for CNY 3.5 million: attorney LIU explained the internal operation of the company to the judicial authorities, and finally the court ruled that the general manager did not constitute the crime of embezzlement, of which CNY 900,000 was found guilty of bribery, and the rest of the amount did not constitute a crime, and the sentence was reduced from 13 years to 4 years.
• 1997-2000, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, MBA
• 1995-1996, Shanghai Municipal Economic Commission, “Senior Marketing Manager” class
• 1986-1990, East China University of Political Science and Law, LLB
• 2016-date, Senior Partner, Dentons Shanghai Office
• 2003-2016, Partner/Senior Partner, Shanghai Shenda Law Firm
• 1998-2003, Deputy General Manager, Shanghai Leiyunshang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
• 1996-1998, Assistant Manager, Shenxiang Shenrong Branch of Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd.
• 1990-1996, Legal Director, Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd.
• Civil & administrative expert of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
• Director of the Intellectual Property Rights Commission of the Shanghai Bar Association
• Deputy Director of Practice Dispute Mediation Commission and Disciplinary Commission of the Shanghai Bar Association
• Director of Shanghai Intellectual Property Service Industry Association
• Director of the Intellectual Property Research Association of the Shanghai Law Society
• Director of China (Shanghai) Free Trade Experimental Zone Intellectual Property Association
• Mediator of Shanghai Economic and Trade Commercial Mediation Center
• Legal expert of Jiangsu Information Network Security Association
• Member of the Lawyers team of Legal Advisory Commission of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology
• Distinguished expert of China Folk Arts Legal Service Center
• Member of ""Consumer Protection Legal Expert Service Group"" in Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission
• Specially-invited mediator of Shanghai Pudong New Area Professional People's Mediation Center
• Shanghai Intellectual Property Civil Dispute mediator
• Independent Director of Shanghai Dazhong Public Utilities (Group) Co., Ltd.
• Independent Director of Shanghai Jiaoda Withub Information Industrial Co., Ltd.
• Independent Director of Shanghai Jiao Da Onlly Co., Ltd.
• Independent Director of China Post Technology Co., Ltd.
• Postgraduate Tutor, Shanghai International Intellectual Property Institute, Tongji University
• Lecturer of Qingdao Lawyer College
• Senior Lawyer, 2021
• Lawyer’s License PRC, 1996
• Senior Economist, 1998
• Trade Secrets Through a Lawyer's Lens: Common Misconceptions and Protection Strategies, 18th July,2024
• Controversies over the Protection of AI-Generated Content under Copyright Law: Starting with China's First AI-Generated Image Case, 9th April,2024
• New Issues in Trade Secret Protection amid Enterprise Digital Transformation, 25th October 2023
• The 2023 Revision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law: Signals and Implications for Practice 30th January,2023
• New Changes in Court Hearing of IPR Dispute Cases in the Context of the COVID-19 Epidemic, 7th July 2022
• The Civil Code: A New Era of Punitive Damages for Intellectual Property Rights, Shanghai Lawyer, No. 4 of 2021
• Corporate IP Protection: Detailed Case Studies on Hot-Topic Issues and Practical Guidance
• IP rights - a powerful tool for consumer protection, 16th March 2021
• "Today's Youtiao" and the Limits of Parody: Whose IP Rights Are at Stake?, 26th October, 2020
• Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Trademark Registration, China Business Law Journal, July 2019
• The Positioning of Personnel in the Technical Fact-Finding System Can Draw on Medical Diagnostic Mechanisms "General Practitioners": New Opportunities for Intellectual Property Lawyers, Shanghai Lawyer, No. 4 of 2016
• Intellectual Property Protection in Cultural and Creative Industries, Intellectual Property Protection in the Art Copyright Industry and Import Trade, No. 12 of 2015
• Effective Intervention of Scientific Assessment in Intellectual Property Infringement Compensation, Shanghai Lawyer, No. 4 of 2013
• Outstanding Expert of civil and administrative prosecution of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
• 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 Chambers & Partners Recommended Lawyer for Intellectual Property (Litigation) in Asia-Pacific
• 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 The Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer for Intellectual Property in Asia Pacific
• 2025, 2024, 2023 China Business Law Journal "The Visionaries"
• 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 China Business Law Journal "A-List" Legal Elite in China Market
• 2020 China Business Law Journal: Deals of the Year Award
• 2024 LEGALBAND Client Choice: Top 15 IP Lawyers
• 2024 LegalOne China Region Clients' Trusted Lawyers (Blue Ribbon): Top 15 IP
•2023 "Leading Lawyer" Brand Star in Intellectual Property
• 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 Asialaw Profiles "Leading Lawyer"
• 2024, 2023, 2022 Benchmark Litigation ‘Dispute Star’ in the field of intellectual property in China
• 2021 2020 APAC Insider Legal Awards and honoured as the Most Trusted IP Professional in Greater China
• 2022,2021,2020 Dacheng Shanghai Annual Best Transaction Award
• 2020 ALB Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyer in China
• 2019,2018 Top 10 China IP Litigation Elite Team
• Nominated for "Shanghai Outstanding Lawyer" from 2015 to 2018
• The first to the fifth session of "Lujiazui Rule of Law Figure Award"
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