Haifeng Huang leads the Firm's Greater China intellectual property practice and has more than 20 years of experience in cross-border disputes and transactional matters. He is regularly called upon to lead teams and advise clients on their complex business disputes with high-technology components and intellectual property matters involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, antitrust, and technology licenses.
Haifeng has successfully guided representations in high-stakes litigation for many of the world's leading companies in a diverse range of industries, including software and systems, semiconductors, microelectronics, telecommunications, robotics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, textiles, chemicals, optics, consumer products, and heavy machinery.
He also manages due diligence and transactions and negotiates agreements involving the acquisition, license, and commercialization of intellectual property assets, including research and development (R&D) collaborations, sponsored research, joint development, clinical trials, cross-licensing, strategic alliance, manufacturing, distribution, consulting, and software services.
Haifeng was endorsed by clients and peers in Chambers Global as being "strategic, very reliable and trustworthy" and having a "top-notch IP practice" in China. The WTR 1000 also described him as "one of the country's most seasoned litigators, with a history of representing large U.S. and Chinese concerns in high-stakes disputes."
Haifeng is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He is a member of Harvard Law School's Leadership Council and has also served as a council member for the China Intellectual Property Law Society. He has been an instructor at Renmin University of China Law School's Juris Master Program and has taught advanced courses at the University of Hong Kong.
"Haifeng Huang is very practical, down to earth and persistent in resolving clients' issues. He is detail oriented and has 100% success rates for the disputes he handled for us."The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
- Harvard University (LL.M. 2003); Renmin University of China (LL.D. 2006; LL.M. 2001; LL.B. 1998; Founding Editor, Law Review; Executive Editor, Chinese Intellectual Property Review)
- New York (USA) and Hong Kong
2016-2017 Global Fellow, Federal Circuit Bar Association
Consistently recommended by Chambers Global and The Legal 500 for intellectual property
IAM Patent: "carved a niche on the Chinese litigation scene, routinely appearing in must-win infringement and invalidation battles"
Managing Intellectual Property: "consistently delivered favorable results ... his guidance is practical and strategic, and takes into account the nuances of the Chinese system"
- English, Mandarin