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Azevedo Sette Advogados
Corporate & Commercial Contracts Law Firm of the Year – Brazil
bestadvice Private Vermogen GmbH
Asset Protection Planning Advisory Firm of the Year – Germany
Camden Associates
Mid-Market Investment Advisory Boutique Firm of the Year – UK
CF Law
Vittorio Tadei
Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year - Italy
Deep & Far Attorneys at Law
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year - Taiwan
Desai & Diwanji
Infrastructure Finance Law Firm of the Year - India
DR.HOSEER Rechtsanwalt
Inheritance Law Firm of the Year – Germany
Egan Nelson LLP
Public & Private Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year - USA
Esquivel Advogados
Government Contracts Law Firm of the Year – Portugal
Facio & Canas
Business Structuring Law Firm of the Year – Costa Rica
FMConsult
Compliance Consulting Firm of the Year - UK
Foresight Law Offices India
Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year – India
Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
Corporate Finance & M&A Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Jacquemoud & Stanislas J&S
Corporate Finance Law Firm of the Year - Switzerland
Karanjawala & Co
Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year - India

KSi Mexico
Accounting Firm of the Year - Mexico
Mackrell Turner Garrett
Full Service Law Firm of the Year - UK
Maddock & Bright IP Law Offices
Patents Law Firm of the Year – Egypt
NNDKP
Corporate & M&A Law Firm of the Year – Romania
Payet Rey Cauvi Perez Abogados
Corporate & Civil Law Firm of the Year – Peru
Pedersoli Studio Legale
Industrial Corporation Law Firm of the Year - Italy
Rich IP & Co.
Patent & Trademark Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan
Roca Junyent
Business Law Firm of the Year – Spain
Rosen Karol Salis, PLLC
Franchising Law Firm of the Year – USA
ROUSE FRETS WHITE GOSS GENTILE PHODES, P.C.
Regulatory Compliance & Payment Protection Law Firm of the Year – USA
Russin, Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti
Corporate & Finance Law Firm of the Year – Dominican Republic
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP
Corporate, Tax & Transactions Law Firm of the Year - USA
SMTD Law LLP
Construction Litigation Law Firm of the Year – USA
Studio Legal Sutti
Business Litigation & Corporate Litigation Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Ulises Cabrera
Business & Corporate Law Firm of the Year – Dominican Republic
Vieira Rezende Advogados
Company Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year - Brazil
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Corporate & Financial Services Law Firm of the Year - Belgium

Franchising Law Firm of the Year – USA
Rosen Karol Salis, PLLC is a boutique law firm located in New York City. The firm and its
predecessors have provided premier legal counsel in the franchising industry for more than
40 years. The firm advises franchisors, franchisees, master franchisees and franchisee
associations across the full spectrum of franchise law, and the business aspects of franchising,
serving clients nationwide and internationally, from its New York City office. We serve in
many industries including restaurants and hospitality, real estate, commercial and residential
services, healthcare and fitness, energy, education, health and beauty, senior care, apparel,
and many more.
Our firm has been recognized nationally and internationally, and frequently authors articles
and publications regarding franchising and real estate, which are featured in national and
international publications.
Practice Areas:
Our practice spans the complete franchise lifecycle, from the initial development through all
stages of expansion, growth and exit, on behalf of franchisors, franchisees, franchisee
associations, master franchisees and master franchisors, and includes:
• Structuring and launching franchise systems;
• Entity formation, regulatory compliance;
• Drafting and negotiating franchise agreements, multi-unit / area development
agreements, master franchise agreements, disclosure documents, and all related
ancillary agreements;
• Advising on and engaging in lease negotiations, including real estate matters
generally, financing arrangements, and real estate matters related to franchise
acquisitions and dispositions; and
• Assisting and negotiating financial arrangements, as well as helping to arrange for
financing for our clients where appropriate.
• We regularly represent clients in mediations, arbitrations, and complex litigations
in both state and federal courts. Richard Rosen, who was a real estate developer
for over 30 years during his legal career, has served as a mediator and arbitrator
and has lectured frequently on franchise matters.

Richard L. Rosen:
Richard L. Rosen, the founder of Rosen Karol Salis, PLLC, has been actively engaged in the
practice of franchise law in New York City for over 40 years, during which time he has
represented countless franchisors and franchisees, both as counsel and as a business adviser.
Mr. Rosen has been engaged in virtually all aspects of franchising during his career. He has
counselled and represented franchisors in the setting up of franchising systems and programs,
formed franchising entities, drafted and negotiated franchise agreements, multi-unit area
development agreements, master franchise agreements, registration statements, disclosure
and other ancillary franchise documents; represented franchisees and franchisee associations;
litigated in both state and federal courts; and mediated, arbitrated and litigated matters on
behalf of both franchisors and franchisees. If one of Richard's or the firm's clients has a
problem or is facing an issue that requires expert guidance or advice, he and his firm have
the unique ability to say, in virtually every instance, "been there, done that," and usually,
successfully.
Richard is a founding member and past chairman of the Franchise, Distribution and
Licensing Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, a member of the Steering
Committee of the National Franchise Mediation Program, The CPR Institute for Dispute
Resolution Distinguished Panel of Neutrals and for over 20 years, has served as Chairman of
the AAFD’s Fair Franchising Standard’s Committee. During this time, the "Standards
Committee," comprised of franchisors, franchisees and franchise attorneys agreed on and
formulated the "Fair Franchising Standards," which laid out a set of guidelines for the
franchising industry that were fair to each side, and the intent of which was to create a "level
playing field" which addressed the needs of both franchisors and franchisees in a fair and
even-handed manner.
Richard has frequently lectured on a variety of franchise topics before various groups and
has been interviewed on both television and radio, the American Bar Association Journal,
the Franchise Times, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes Magazine, regarding franchising.
Mr. Rosen is a contributor to “Franchising 101, The Complete Guide to Evaluating, Buying
and Growing Your Franchise Business” compiled by the Association of Small Business
Development Centers and has written many articles on the legal and business aspects of
franchising. Mr. Rosen and his firm are the authors of the section on Franchise Law in the
United States which appears in the Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions of the (International)
Franchise Law Review as well as the review of franchise law in the U.S. which appears in the
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and upcoming 2027 edition of
the International Comparative Legal Guide to Franchise Law. Richard and the firm have
authored the section entitled “Real Estate Development in the Cross Border Franchise
Context” in the Lexology Practice Guide – Franchise in 2022, 2023 and the upcoming 2026
edition. Richard and the firm are contributors to Chambers’ Global Practice Guide on
Franchising, Franchise Trends & Developments, and will be publishing the upcoming
Chambers feature “Doing Business In 2026” for the USA.
Richard has been listed in Who’s Who in America for over 30 years, (and has recently been
chosen to receive its Lifetime Achievement Award), Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who
in the World, Best Lawyers in America, “101 Best Franchise Lawyers in America” (the
Franchise Times), a charter member of the Franchise Times “Hall of Fame” of Franchise
Attorneys, Chambers, Best Lawyers in the U.S., America’s Super Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal:

Franchise and The International Who’s Who Legal (Compendium Edition), the International
Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and a recipient of the Global Award for Franchise Law. In
2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Richard was chosen as Franchise Attorney of the Year for the US
by Lawyer Monthly. Richard was chosen as Franchise Attorney of the Year for the US in 2017,
2018 and 2019 by Global 100. Richard Rosen was named Franchise Lawyer of the Year in the
United States by Intercontinental Finance and Law in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2018 and 2019
Richard was named one the 100 Best Attorneys in the World by LegalComprehensive.com.
The firm was awarded the Best International Law Firm by Global Franchise Awards in 2020
and was “runner-up” in 2024 and 2026.
Contact Details:
Richard L. Rosen, Esq.
Rosen Karol Salis, PLLC
110 E. 59th Street, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10022
Telephone: 212-644-6644
Email: rlr@rosenlawpllc.com
www.richardrosenlaw.com

Business Litigation & Corporate Litigation Law Firm of the Year –
Italy
Studio Legale Sutti is an international business law firm headquartered in
Italy and active as well throughout the Balkans, with representative offices in
London, Tokyo and Berlin. The Firm also offers IP agency and business/tax
consulting services.
Studio Legale Sutti was founded in 1953 by Dr. Angelo Sutti, Knight of the
Italian Republic, as an Italian law firm with a strong focus on Company-
Commercial Law and Intellectual property & Competition Law, offering its
services to local businesses and entrepreneurs. In the late seventies the Firm
began an uninterrupted growth cycle, making it eventually one
of the ten largest independent Italian firms, Thus, the Firm was dramatically
reorganised – profiting also from an early investment in state-of-the-art IT
infrastructures – into a structure based on four firm-wide departments
(Company Commercial and Business Public Law; IP & Competition; Labour;
Tax), which is still in place.
All lawyers at Studio Legale Sutti, including those mostly involved with
transactional work, undergo advocacy and litigations continuing education
programmes for their entire careers, and each file is entrusted to an ad hoc
team led by a partner and including lawyers specialising in each relevant
angle of the case at hand.
Contact Details:
Studio Legale Sutti http://www.sutti.com
Headquarters: Via Montenapoleone 8 20121 Milan, Italy
Tel. +39 02 76204.1
maildesk@sutti.com

Regulatory Compliance & Payment Protection Law Firm of the
Year – USA
When seasoned lawyers from Kansas and Missouri, dedicated to quality, advocacy, and
results, reach across the state line to practice together the end result is Rouse Frets White,
P.C. Ranked by U.S. News as among the Best Law Firms in Kansas and Missouri with
attorneys holding many honours as distinguished practitioners, it is a leading Kansas City
law firm with a national reach. Standout practice groups include:
• Business and Corporate Law
• Catastrophic Loss
• Commercial Lending
• Economic Development Incentives
• Employment including ERISA
• Energy
• Environment
• Estate & Succession Planning
• Higher Education
• Land Use & Zoning
• Litigation
• Medical Malpractice Defense
• Payment Instruments
• Real Estate
Phillip C. Rouse
Phillip (Chuck) Rouse is one of the law firm’s founders and serves as a managing
officer. For the past 25-plus years, Chuck has practiced extensively in the area of
regulatory compliance regarding payment methods, payment instruments and prepaid
cards/access instruments. He has a national practice in this area regarding many facets of
federal and state regulation, including laws and regulations addressing consumer
protection, escheat/unclaimed property, anti-money laundering, OCC and FDIC oversight,

privacy, electronic funds, and licensing, along with the rules and regulations governing the
management of breakage and slippage on payment instruments and prepaid cards. His
work cuts across the retail, bank, financial institution, and internet sectors. In addition,
Chuck’s practice extends to general business law and commercial matters including,
banking and financial services. He also has substantial experience regarding dispute
resolution and commercial litigation.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
• Administrative Law & Regulatory Proceedings
• Banking Transactions
• Business Law
• Business Litigation
• Litigation
• Payments & Prepaid Instruments
Contact Details:
Phillip C. Rouse
801 West 47th Street, Suite 500 || Kansas City, Missouri 64112
913-387-1600 || F 913-928-6739 || crouse@rousepc.com

Your Insurance Arbitration Specialists
Prof. Dr. Joachim Frick is a partner at Baker & McKenzie and admitted to the bars of Switzerland
and New York. He graduated from the University of Zurich (lic. iur, Dr. iur.) and Yale Law School
(LL.M., J.S.D). After practicing with Baker & McKenzie in Taipei and Chicago, he in 1997 returned to
Baker & McKenzie in Zurich and became a partner in 2001. He is admitted to practice in Switzerland
and, in addition, has passed the New York Bar exam.
Joachim specializes in commercial litigation and arbitration and has acted as party counsel in various
Swiss and international arbitration proceedings under Swiss, ICC, ad hoc and other arbitration rules.
He regularly represents clients in particular in corporate, post m&a, liability, insurance and
distributorship disputes and advises in litigious and non-litigious insurance/reinsurance matters.
In addition to being a practicing lawyer, he regularly teaches as professor of law (Titularprofessor) at
the University of Zurich and is a lecturer in a number of graduate programs. He was repeatedly
named leading attorney in insurance and reinsurance matters by specialized publications.
Joachim's practice combines disputes and arbitration work with a strong expertise in post m&a and
insurance matters. Given the global reach of Baker McKenzie with more than 70 offices around the
world, Joachim's clients often have an international or foreign background.
In particular in Financial Services and other regulatory matters, the international firm Baker
McKenzie allows to conduct multijurisdictional surveys on a global basis.
While we cannot disclose client names, Joachim Frick regularly advises major Swiss and international
financial institutions (banks, insurers, brokers, etc.) on regulatory matters. Also, Joachim Frick
regularly represents foreign corporate clients in arbitration proceedings with seat of arbitration in
Switzerland and/or governed under Swiss law.
Contact Details:
Joachim Frick
Prof. Dr., LL.M./J.S.D.
Baker & McKenzie Zurich
Holbeinstrasse 30, P.O. Box
8034 Zürich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 384 14 14
Fax: +41 44 384 12 84
Direct: +41 44 384 12 31
Email: joachim.frick@bakermckenzie.com

Corporate & Financial Services Law Firm of the Year –
Belgium
Willkie is an elite international law firm of approximately 650 lawyers located in nine offices in six countries.
For more than 125 years, we have represented companies across a wide spectrum of businesses and industries,
most notably financial services. The firm is comprised of attorneys who are recognized as some of the world’s
foremost practitioners in their respective areas.
Xavier Dieux is a partner in the Corporate and Finance Department and in the Litigation Department. His
practice areas encompass Public Offerings (including TOB), Capital Market Operations and Regulation,
Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, as well as Litigation in all areas of
Financial, Corporate, Commercial and Contract Law. As to his Litigation practice, Xavier is also frequently
appointed as arbitrator with respect to international or domestic proceedings. He practices in French and in
English.
Practice Areas:
Corporate & Financial Services
Finance
Capital Markets
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity/Venture Capital
Structured Finance & Derivatives
Business Reorganization & Restructuring
Litigation
Compliance & Enforcement
Insurance & Reinsurance
Securities, Litigation & Enforcement
Complex Commercial Disputes
Contact Details:
Avenue Louise, 480 / 3B
1050 Bruxelles
T +32 2 290 18 20
F +32 2 290 18 21
E: xdieux@willkie.com

Asset Protection Planning Advisory Firm of the Year –
Germany
bestadvice Private Vermögen GmbH was founded in 2001 by Marion Köbler and Thomas
Neumann as an independent fee-based consultancy. After their training and a few more years of
professional experience at Munich banks as well as intensive further training, the two wanted to
advise and support their clients in the new law firm on property issues independently and free of
product and commission constraints. With its transparent and client-friendly fee concept, bestadvice
was one of the pioneers in investment advice in the year it was founded. Since the company's
existence, the principle has been that the client decides which advisory service he wants to use and
how intensively he wants the service in financial matters. He always only pays for what he has
ordered.
Since bestadvice was founded, the primary goal of advice and asset management has been to
preserve values over generations. Due to the demand from clients, the range of services has
gradually expanded over the years. Today, the offer for clients ranges from advice and total asset
management to foundation management and the execution of wills. Bestadvice's services are
especially tailored to the target groups of active entrepreneurs, silver heroes and golden ladies.
Practice Areas:
Asset Protection Planning
Asset Structuring Advice
Estate Succession Planning
At bestadvice, the client decides which advisory services he wants to use and how intensively he
wants to make use of our services relating to property and beyond.
Fee consulting has been part of the bestadvice range of services since the company was founded.
He always only pays us what he orders. We give a satisfaction and fairness guarantee.
Each client pays the same price for the same services.
Our range of services consists of three modules, which are calculated depending on the intensity of
the advice and the use of the service. We are happy to implement the individual and tailor-made
financial planning developed in the consultation for our customers, including taking on long-term
overall asset management. But of course, the advisory customer is free to take over the asset
management, which is provided by the sister company bestadvice Vermögenstreuhand GmbH, in
accordance with the financial planning.
With a long-term full service for asset management, clients can really allow themselves the time for
things that are at least as important to them as asset matters.
Contact Details:
bestadvice Private Vermögen GmbH.
Phone. +49 (89) 90 04 90-0.
Fax. +49 (89) 90 04 90-99.

Construction Litigation Law Firm of the Year – USA
Ali Salamirad founded the firm ten or so years ago and, then, in 2014, SMTD Law LLP was created. SMTD
Law is a boutique law firm concentrating in construction, surety and business litigation. The Firm’s attorneys
are highly experienced in handling disputes unique to the construction and surety industries and they
understand the rigors and challenges of litigation. Because of the Firm’s experience, our attorneys are well
prepared to work with our clients to achieve their goals. We take pride in knowing that our clients trust us to
handle all of their legal needs, and, as a result, we do everything in our power to help our clients succeed.
The firm’s managing partners are Ali Salimirad and Jonathon Dunn. The firm overall is managed by six
partners. The two managing partners, Chris Morrow, one of the founding partners, and the managing
partners for Oakland, Michael Timpane, Phoenix, Bob Berens, and Los Angeles, Marilyn Klinger. All of the six
partners are construction law experts who do both transactional work and litigation including trials and
arbitration.
Ms. Klinger serves as the Managing Partner of SMTD Law’s Los Angeles office. She is involved in all aspects of
construction law on a state and national level, representing the full spectrum of the construction industry,
from owners, contractors, subcontractors and sureties. Ms. Klinger’s practice includes time-related claims and
litigation (e.g., delay/impact), legal advice and counsel regarding the contracting process (e.g., bidding and
contract disputes/performance bond claims), payment enforcement/defense (e.g. payment bonds/mechanics
liens/stop payment notices), administrative and scope claims and litigation (e.g., differing site conditions,
change and extra work orders/inadequate plans and specifications and subcontractor substitutions) and
counseling and transactional services to the construction industry (e.g., general advice and counsel, including
contract preparation, evaluation and negotiation). In addition, she has extensive experience in dispute
resolution including litigation, trial, appeals, arbitration and mediation.
Ms. Klinger is a hard-working “straight shooter.” Early in her career, she became a pioneer in construction law,
being one of the first women attorneys to practice in the primarily male-dominated field. Through her
passion and unique intelligence she has established a vital, nationwide practice involved in all aspects of
construction law and a career marked by increasingly prominent leadership positions. She is recognized as an
innovator in legal problem-solving and as a thought leader who is a frequently published author and soughtafter
speaker for professional legal, construction and educational publications and organizations. Marilyn
loves humor and thinks everyone is way too serious. Chambers USA 2019 ranked Ms. Klinger one of the top
Construction lawyers in California. Recently, she has been selected as Top Attorney of the Year in
Construction Law by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) for her outstanding
leadership and commitment to the profession.
Contact Details:
Marilyn Klinger
SMTD Law LLP
355 S. Grand Avenue, Suite 2450
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 943-1425 main
(213) 943-1427 direct
(213) 268-8105 cell
mklinger@smtdlaw.com
www.smtdlaw.com

Patents Law Firm of the Year – Egypt
Maddock & Bright IP Law Office formerly Mona Bakir & Son Office is a unique IP law firm. It is
ranked amongst the most professional & long established 66 years’ law firm in Egypt, specializing
in the protection of “Intellectual & Industrial Property Rights” in Egypt, Middle East & North
Africa. Our firm fills a market gap by cleverly combining services in the field of intellectual
property law and market entry support. We provide customized, comprehensive services catered
to the specific needs of foreign companies and law firms in the MENA Zone.
Mona Bakir & Son Office, started to enter the Arabic Zone in particular GCC countries in 2000 in
order to respond to a growing demand of foreign clients that need to be assisted in what was
seen as a challenging and unreliable IP system. During the last 12 years, our firm has developed its
own understanding of the Arabic IP system so that we are now aware of its specificity and able
to solve most of the IP problems that may rise in these fast-growing countries.
Starting 2014, Mr. Abdelwahab Moustafa has lead Mona Bakir and Son office into a new
partnership resulting in a capital raise under a new name of Maddock and Bright IP Law Office.
Maddock and Bright combines the existing expertise and clientele base of Mona Bakir & Son
Office with aggressive management and expansion tactics to bring to the legal field a wider
range of integrated legal solutions, and greater regional footprint.
At present, we have 24 operating offices in the MENA region and in the year 2012 we applied the
so-called one window of services where all correspondence and invoices are handled through our
Head Office in Egypt. Cairo, whilst our offices in the MENA Region are implementing our client
matters on daily basis. Of course, the one window of services is available for POA document
where the client can provide us with just one General POA to our head office in Egypt which will
enable us to handle all our clients’ matters in all countries of our operations.
Our mass, diversity, and advanced technological tools allow us to submit full legal services to
our foreign companies and law firms. In addition to a team of specialists in various fields of law,
economics and technology, we are staffed with qualified patent and trademark attorneys, who
have gained many-year experience in establishing and enforcing intellectual property rights
over patents, trademarks, industrial designs, and copyrights as well as in such pieces of work as
assignment, licensing and litigation.
As a firm of specialists in the field of intellectual property rights, we strive to utilize our
knowledge and expertise accumulated over the past years to the fullest in order to effectively
serve the interests of our clients. It is imperative that clients be given the right advice at the right
time, that we faithfully perform tasks given to us by clients, and that we fulfill the trust and
expectations of our clients.
As an international patent attorney firm that has played an integral role in the administration
of intellectual property rights for 66 years, effectively responding to the trends of the times both
in MENA region, we will continue to strive to contribute to the advancement and development
of intellectual property rights around the world, and fulfill our social responsibilities.
Our IP law firm covers the entire spectrum of intellectual property protection services - searches,
filing applications for registration of trademarks, designs, utility models and patents, filing
oppositions, filing statements, technical translation, arguments and suits. We file law suits on
behalf of foreign right holders against infringers in MENA region.

We also provide legal and technical assistance related to infringement & compensation cases,
conducting contracts, arbitration, legal advice, amicable approaches to settle disputes as well as
licensing and various other issues.
Finally we are continuously developing technology that supports our work in order to provide
faster and more cost-effective IP services for our foreign clients.
Practice Areas:
Patent
Trademark
Licensing
Infringement litigation
Intellectual Property.
Our patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law who are well versed in such intellectual property right
matters as patents, utility models, designs, trademarks, etc. extend all efforts to manage and deal
with the cases entrusted by our foreign clients and solve all problems promptly.
Our IP law firm covers the entire spectrum of intellectual property protection services - searches,
filing applications for registration of trademarks, designs, utility models and patents, filing
oppositions, filing statements, Trademark and Design Invalidity Proceedings, technical translation,
arguments and suits in Egypt, Middle East & South Africa. We file law suits on behalf of foreign
right holders against infringers in Egypt. We also provide legal & technical assistance related to
infringement & compensation cases, conducting contracts, arbitration, legal advice, amicable
approaches to settle disputes as well as licensing, and various other issues. Finally, we are
continuously developing technology that supports our work in order to provide faster and more
cost-effective IP services for our foreign clients. In this context we'll be happy to assist you with huge
diligence and expertise!
Contact Details:
Head Office: 13 Dr. Mahmoud Azmy St.,
Zamalek P.O. Box 11211 Cairo, Egypt.
Tel: +202 2735 2592
Fax: +202 2735 3828
Website: www.mbo-law.com
E-mail: info@mbo-law.com

Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year – India
Karanjawala & Co. is an exclusive full-service boutique litigation firm, founded in 1983 by Mrs.
Manik Karanjawala and Mr. Raian Karanjawala. The firm operates today out of three offices in
New Delhi.
The Firm, over the years, has come to dominate the litigation landscape of the country and has
serviced a wide variety of clients from Prime Ministers to captains of industries and from the largest
corporate and media houses to royal families. Notwithstanding its elite client list, the Firm is also
equally at ease handling the day-to- day cases of ordinary litigants.
The Firm began its legal service with a predominant focus on cases in the Supreme Court and High
Court, but over the years, has expanded its legal vision, ensuring that it has a presence in all the
subordinate courts and tribunals of the National Capital Region (NCR). The Firm’s services are
often availed by clients to handle litigation on a pan–India basis.
Recognized as one of India’s top litigation firms with close to 250 awards and recognitions,
Karanjawala & Co. features in over 625 reported judgments only in the Supreme Court itself. The
Firm has filed and dealt with approximately over 25,000 matters till date. The Firm remains at the
disposal of litigants who come up with myriad issues and complex legal problems. Over the years,
the firm has grown to be a one-stop solution for litigants from not just within the country, but also
the ones located abroad. We’ve set best practices by remaining unfazed by the media frenzy
surrounding the high-profile cases handled by the firm. We’ve only tries to better ourselves with
each case handled, without seeking credit or moment of fame while handling sensitive matters.
Client confidentiality and awareness of sensitivity surrounding every high-profile matter are
engrained in the DNA of the firm.
The Firm’s criminal practice has grown substantially in the last five years, with the Firm appearing
in a number of high stake and high profile matters. The Firm has also received acclaim in respect of
its white-collar crime practice particularly for its ability to handle sensitive cases with a quick
turnaround time. In the last four to five years, the Firm has also carved out a niche practice for itself
in the fields of consumer protection and RERA litigation. The Firm’s practice focuses not only on
general consumer litigation but also on medical negligence and real estate, with the Firm
representing a wide range of clients before various tribunals, ranging from the District fora to the
National Commission. The Firm’s consumer team has filed over 1,000 cases in the National
Commission, with a high success rate. The Firm has extensive experience in dealing with high profile
matters under the recently enacted Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 providing advisory
services and appearing for corporations and financial institutions, in relation to issues pertaining to
their restructuring and insolvency.
The Firm’s high profile client list includes the Tata Group, DLF, Arcelor Mittal, the Birlas, the Adani
Group, Google, Astro, Hindustan Unilever, P&G, Colgate, Coca Cola, Vodafone, PWC, GVK,
Mafatlal Industries, Piramal, Ambuja Cement, GMR, Morgan Stanley, Star TV, BCCI, Coffee Board,
Bombay Dyeing, Hindustan Times and MSD Pharmaceuticals among many others. Some of the
renowned individuals who have turned to the Firm for legal representation in the past include, (i)
late Mr. V.P. Singh, former Prime Minister of India (ii) Mr. Ratan N. Tata, former Chairman, TATA
Group (iii) Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, Fox Corporation (iv) Ms. Karisma Kapoor, Film Actress
(v) late Mr. Jaswant Singh, former Defence and Finance Minister of India (vi) Mr. Sharad Pawar,

former Defence and Agriculture Minister of India (vii) Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia, former Minister of
State (Independent Charge) for power (viii) Mr. Goolam Vahanvati, former Attorney General of
India (ix) Mr. Gopal Raheja (x) Mr. Suresh Nanda (xi) Mr. Karim Morani (xii) Mr. Tarun Tejpal (xiii)
Mr. M.J. Akbar (xiv) Mr. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and many others
Key awards and accolades achieved by Firm in various practice areas over the years:
Corporate Intl Magazine Global has awarded Karanjawala & Co. the "Alternative Dispute
Resolution Law Firm of the Year in India - 2021" award.
India Business Law Journal’s 2021 Indian Law Firm Awards has awarded Karanjawala & Co.
the "Anti- corruption & White-collar crime Law Firm of the year" and "Litigation Law Firm of the
year" award.
Forbes Legal Powerlist 2020 has awarded Karanjawala & Co. the "Top Law Firms of the
Country Award" for Litigation practice.
IBLJ has recognized the firm for its Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice ten times in
the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Chambers & Partners has ranked the firm for its “Dispute Resolution/Litigation” Practice
eleven times in the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Chambers & Partners has ranked the firm for its “White Collar Crime” Practice consecutively in the
years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
The Legal 500 has ranked the firm for its “Dispute Resolution/Litigation” Practice 13 times
in the years 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Asialaw Profiles has included the firm in the list of outstanding firms for its dispute
resolution practice for the years 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Benchmark Litigation has recognized the firm amongst top firms for the following practices
in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 - International Arbitration, Commercial & Transactional Disputes,
Competition/antitrust practice, Insolvency practice and Government and regulatory and White-
Collar Crime. Benchmark Litigation has also ranked the Firm in Tier 1 for Commercial &
Transactions disputes for the Year 2020.
Legal Era has recognized the firm as Best Litigation Firm in the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
2016 and recognized the firm as Best White-Collar Crime Practice Firm in the year 2019.
ACQ5 Country Awards has recognized the firm for its Litigation Practice in the years 2013,
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020. Further, ACQ5 Country Awards 2020 has recognized the firm for
its Alternate Dispute Resolution Practice in the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. It also recognized the
firm for its aviation practice in the years 2015 and 2016 and as Client Care Law Firm of the Year in
the year 2017.
Contact Details:
Mr. Raian Karanjawala, Managing Partner
Email: raian@raian.in

Inheritance Law Firm of the Year – Germany
DR. HOSSER Rechtsanwalt was established by Dr. Marcus Hosser, TEP, in 2011 in Frankfurt am Main
/ Germany. As it comes to the consultation in said law firm’s core-fields of law, DR. HOSSER
Rechtsanwalt was kind of a one person-spin-off from two of the very well respected large German
law firms, for which he had worked, each in the private client-teams, before he established his own
law firm. Two of Dr. Hosser’s professional focal points always were international successions and
private clients, amongst others because of his expert knowledge about private international
inheritance law.
Not long after the Frankfurt am Main-office’s establishment in 2011, DR. HOSSER Rechtsanwalt
opened-up a branch office in Karlsruhe in the southwest of Germany, in order to offer his services to
private clients from the southwestern middle-class, as well as to small and medium-sized businesses.
Initially, the law firm had offered legal advice about corporate law and corporate litigation, on top
of the core-business German and international inheritances. In 2013, the law firm relocated its head
office to Karlsruhe, but kept Frankfurt am Main up as a branch-office, also to allow the firm to
offer their international customers meetings not far from the Frankfurt international airport.
In Spring 2020, DR. HOSSER Rechtsanwalt opened up a second branch office in
Mannheim/Germany which lies between Karlsruhe and Frankfurt and at the same time is the city
in which Dr. Hosser studied law and where he had earned his doctorate in law from the University
of Mannheim in 2007. Since 2020, DR. HOSSER Rechtsanwalt has strictly focused on inheritance
law consultation, with an emphasis on and also vast experience with international succession cases
and international estate planning.
DR. HOSSER Rechtsanwalt is a specialist inheritance law firm and at the same time a law firm for
international inheritance law and inheritance tax law. The law firm’s practice focuses on succession
matters, estate planning, estate litigation and German inheritance tax-issues, with a special
emphasis on international cases with connections to Germany or to German inheritance law,
respectively.
The law firm is managed by its founder, Dr. Marcus Hosser, TEP, who has – different from many
other advisors in the field of inheritance law – the ability to provide high-end legal advice about
inheritance law aspects as well as being able to advise about inheritance tax and can represent his
clients in estate litigations in Germany, too. Dr. Hosser is a very dedicated advisor, the expertise of
which can also be seen from his relevant two German Certified Lawyer-titles in the fields of
inheritance law and tax law, his being a Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner a certified advisor,
for company succession zentUma registered association and – last but not least – an executor for
last wills (Testamentsvollstrecker, accredited by the DVEV registered association). Another specific
ability of Dr. Hosser is to clearly explain for his clients what their chances are and which risks they
must take into consideration, in order to allow them to make well-informed decisions about how to
proceed. Our recommendations show this.
In 2021 Dr HOSSER Rechtsanwalt counselled in one large German-Canadian succession case,
amongst others the team prepared the complicated application for a German certificate of
executorship in a constellation in which the testator’s ability to make up a valid last will and
testament had been doubted and – on top of that – a different substantial law than German
inheritance law was the relevant one. Besides the correspondence with the German probate court,
Dr Hosser had coordinated with the client’s Canadian advisor what the criteria for said ability of
the testator are, under the foreign law rules so the certificate of executorship could be finally issued
in time.

In the field of estate-planning, the team of DR HOSSER Rechtsanwalt have assisted a high networth
individual with structuring her estate planning about how to transfer her shares in a large
company, possibly by making use of a tax-exempt German civil law foundation.
DR HOSSER Rechtsanwalt has assisted with a contentious German estate, for which the heirs fought
with each other during multiple probate proceedings before German courts, in order to obtain
German certificates of inheritances for the deceased parents’ respective German estates, with a
special procedure of appeal against one court decision, for which the Higher Regional Court was
competent. In another large and also long-term estate litigation in Germany, their major task was
to argue in favour of their client’s position as the sole heiress based on an inheritance contract, the
revocation of which was declared, but invalid because of the testator’s missing right to revoke said
inheritance contract.
On top of that, DR HOSSER Rechtsanwalt has assisted many customers from abroad and from
Germany with their inheritances’ winding-up, in Germany or in a foreign country. For it’s customers
from abroad the team provided legal assistance with the German estate or a share in a German
inheritance’s settling. Whenever German real property is part of the German estate, a number of
complicated questions must be answered, which the law firm can help with.
The Corona-crisis had hit the law firm hard, especially in the first nine to ten months of 2020, with a
significant decrease of new assignments, but already in 2021, it has had more than enough new
assignments, again. On top of that, the continued support from the firm’s clients and their
majorities´ wish to proceed with the succession matters in spite of the Corona-crisis, was very
helpful. As it comes to inheritance disputes, contentious estates, or even to estate litigations, any
economic downturn through a crisis generally only results in a slightly more reluctant “investment”
by the customers in their requesting high-class legal advice, but their need for our legal assistance
with the succession cases persists, even in difficult times.
The significant decrease of new assignments for the law firm in 2020 (until autumn or winter)
actually was challenging, but the law firm´s policy to provide legal advice to domestic customers as
well as to clients from abroad on the one hand and on the other hand our full-service-approach in
the field of succession matters (with German inheritance tax-consultation included) was a good and
solid economic basis. Nevertheless, DR HOSSER Rechtsanwalt is very grateful to it’s loyal clients´
and their majorities´ support and decisions to pursue the respective succession matters further
together with the law firm´s team. One additional benefit of that is that in many cases, the
attorney-client-relationship has become even closer than it had been before the Corona-crisis.
Contact Details:
Dr. Marcus A. Hosser, TEP
Bismarckstr. 61
D-76133 Karlsruhe
Postfach (P.O.B.) 11 06 04
D-76056 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49 721 / 46 719 044
Fax: +49 721 / 46 719 045
Email: anwalt@dr-hosser.de
www.dr-hosser.de

Full Service Law Firm of the Year – UK
Mackrell Turner Garrett is an award-winning, full service London law firm, with a truly global
reach.
Headquartered in central London with an additional office in Surrey, we have been providing high
quality legal advice and services since 1845.
As a firm, we are here to make your life easier. Providing clear, practical solutions through an
otherwise complex web of legal jargon, our ability to make legal advice accessible has resulted in us
maintaining an impressively high retention rate amongst our clients.
Despite significant growth in recent years we remain personal enough to provide the tailored
service clients look for and every case is supervised by one of our Partners, working closely with our
team at all levels throughout. We are also large enough to offer comprehensive and practical
expertise so our clients are able to use our firm to deal with all of their legal needs, no matter what
the scale or complexity may be.
Being a full service firm also allows us to easily refer work between departments– avoiding
outsourcing of parts of a client’s legal requirements saves the client both time and money;
something we are able to provide both domestically and internationally through our international
association Mackrell International.
We are founders of Mackrell International, a world leading global network of approximately 5000
lawyers across 60 countries, enabling us to offer the added value of immediate international legal
advice and assistance in any jurisdiction worldwide. We are a worldwide web of lawyers, with local
knowledge.
Our expertise is also widely recognised within our profession, in the UK and further afield. In 2015,
we were named Litigation Law Firm of the Year and Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year, and in
2016, Full Service Law Firm of the Year and Arbitration Law Firm of the Year
Mackrell Turner Garrett – an innovative, traditional, local and truly global firm, in one.
Nigel is the Managing Partner and Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution in the London office
of Mackrell Turner Garrett.
He is experienced in complex litigation matters, and various forms of dispute resolution.
Clients include in the banking and hedge fund sector [Indus Capital LLP, KBC Bank NV];
Information Technology and Management [AFD Software, Blue Cube Group]; Property [William
Pears Group]; Motor [JLC Ltd (Jaguar Land Rover), Imperial Carriages Limited]; Publishing
[Financial-I, Grapo AS]; Restaurant & Entertainment [Sketch, Wainscott Studios]; Architecture &
Design [Space Projects Ltd].

A brief look at his experience of acting in the last year including cases with potential injunctions
includes:-
Acting for a US hedge fund against a UK bank in a claim for in excess of $10m claiming
misrepresentation
Acting for a UK based software company in a claim for £15m against a UK infringer claiming
commercial infringement
Acting for a US film producer in a claim against a UK media company claiming commercial
infringement of rights
Acting for a US high net worth individual in a claim against a UK architect designer claiming
substantial over invoicing
Acting for a SA company in a £12m claim against a Canadian conglomerate – share dispute
Acting for a UK motor trader in a £1m+ claim against a UK individual – breach of guarantee
Acting for a UK company director in defending a claim against an Iranian state owned business –
alleged misallocation of payments
Acting for a Middle Eastern Royal in defending a £20m+ claim made by a UK bank – alleged bank
guarantee default.
Nigel has considerable experience in defending FCA prosecutions, and HMRC Appeals.
He is an International committee member for EMEA on Mackrell International, the independent
network of 80+ law firms around the world and Chairman of the Membership Committee for
Mackrell International.
As a result of the firms membership of Mackrell International, Nigel is very experienced in crossborder
disputes, and multi jurisdictional litigation.
Nigel studied at Caterham School, City of London University before training at Mackrell & Co who
he joined in 1988. He was made partner at Mackrell Turner Garrett in 1991.
In 2012 Nigel was named England and Wales Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year as well as
being appointed Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, Member of the Diversity Law Institute
and Member of the Trial Law Institute.
Contact Details:
Tel: 00 44 (0) 207 240 0521
Fax: 00 44 (0) 207 240 9457
Email: nigel.rowley@mackrell.com

Accounting Firm of the Year –
Mexico
KSI México is a global network, member of KS International, an association of independent
accountancy firms with over 100 offices; we operate in some 50 countries around the world to deal
with your international business need.
KSI México offers a personal service, focused on the growth and success of our clients. We outstand
for the quality of our services, offering a complete solution for each client.
We provide a wide range of business service to companies in a variety of industries. The firm
specializes in corporate finance advice, accounting, tax planning, consultation, and auditing
services.
We belong to the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board), as a corporation to
oversee the audits of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and further the
public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports.
Our commitment is to help your business succeed by keeping up-to-date with your affairs and
offering a high standard of both commercial and supportive advice.
The Key to our approach is to build a close relationship between partner and client.
Qualities you will find in a KSI México firm include:
A real understanding of your business.
The partners are in tune with your needs and aspirations.
Regular attention and support from accessible partners.
Commercial realism in the advice you receive.
Technically reliable responses to your enquiries.
Additionally, KSI México firm attach great importance to recruiting and training quality staff.

Infrastructure Finance Law Firm of the Year – India
Founded in 1935, Desai & Diwanji is one of India's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their
goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. With offices in Mumbai,
Gurgaon, and New Delhi, Desai & Diwanji is also among the largest law firms in the country.
Vishwang Desai is the managing partner of the firm and heads its corporate commercial practice.
He has consistently advised large multinational corporations and Indian business groups,
governments, multilateral agencies, lenders, PE funds, as well as financial investors in some of the
largest M&A, PE and financing transactions in India / involving Indian companies. He has been
named “lawyer of the year” by various global publications and is regularly included in several top
business lawyer lists compiled by global publications.
Contact Details:
Practice Areas:
Aviation
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets
Competition
Dispute Resolution
Infrastructure & Project Finance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Real Estate & Construction
Technology, Media & Telecoms
Address: LENTIN CHAMBERS, DALAL STREET, FORT, MUMBAI 400 001, INDIA
Tel: +91 22 3984 1000
Fax: +91 22 2265 8245
Email: mail@desaidiwanji.com

Compliance Consulting Firm of the Year – UK
FMConsult is an independent regulatory, product development and
operational risk consultancy committed to assisting clients in aligning
financial services processes with regulatory requirements.
They provide risk and compliance solutions that enable senior
management of financial services firms to demonstrate that they and
their firm are currently, and will continue to be, aligned with
regulatory requirements.
They major on the wholesale firms and funds industry but also have
the capacity and experience to assist retail and market infrastructure
companies.
Established in 2004, FMConsult is a specialist compliance, collective
investment schemes and operational risk management consultancy that
services a whole host of financial services firms. They have made it their
mission to provide solutions to our clients so that they can continually
meet regulatory requirements.
Headquartered in London, their highly experienced team have first-hand
experience in asset management, wealth management, financial
regulations and broking which provides them with the all-round
expertise you would require from a consultancy.
FMConsult has recently been engaged in a 4th Money Laundering
Directive documentation remediation project for a large asset
management firm that has included up to sixteen employees involved
in the project. FMConsult are well placed to assist firms, large or
small, who in light of the tough stance being taken by the FCA may
want to review their current AML arrangements and look to remediate
documentation or assess internal control weakness in their CDD.
As we know from the allegations in the FINCEN files, UK financial
services are not exempt from being used for Anti-Money Laundering
(AML) purposes.

In the latest news regarding AML, the Financial Conduct Authority
(FCA) announced that it has commenced criminal proceedings
against National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) in respect of
offences under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 (MLR 2007).
In particular these offences relate to the regulations requiring firms
to determine, conduct and demonstrate risk sensitive customer due
diligence (CDD) and ongoing monitoring of its relationships with its
customers for the purposes of preventing money laundering. This is
the first criminal prosecution under the MLR 2007 by the FCA and
the first prosecution under the MLR against a bank. This comes
despite NatWest working with the FCA.
Dallas McGillivray:
An experienced international regulatory and business manager.
Previous Global Head of Compliance and Operational Risk at a major
asset management company for all business outside the Americas with
circa 30 plus years of experience in UK and global regulatory issues,
covering both retail and institutional.
Andrew Hicks:
An experienced compliance monitoring and advisory; audit; and
operational risk manager in the UK with circa 20 plus years of
experience in European regulated businesses, covering both retail
and institutional clients. Specialist in providing financial regulation,
internal audit, compliance monitoring, regulatory advise, corporate
governance and operational risk services to asset management and
investment companies.
Ross Revell:
Ross is an experienced regulatory professional who has held
regulatory positions at both a leading Insurer and separately at an IFA
Network and has also worked at two of the Big Four Accountancy
firms. He has previously worked at the FSA and started his career in
financial services in the
Banking sector 28 years ago. His experience covers Banking,
Mortgages, Life & Pensions, General Insurance, Wealth Management,
Private Banking, and Stock Broking.
Contact Details:
Mob: 07905 357790 / 07905 266950
Email:
dmcgillivray@fmconsult.co.uk / ahicks@fmconsult.co.uk
Address: Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AG
Website: www.fmconsult.co.uk

Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan
Deep & Far attorneys-at-law was founded in 1992 and is dealing with all phases of laws with a focus
on the practice in separate or in combination of all aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs)
including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and/or licensing,
counselling, litigation and/or transaction thereof.
Yu-Li Tsai: Partner & Patent Attorney
Practice area/industry focus: Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition, Litigation
Career highlights: Mr Tsai is a patent attorney who holds a degree from the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, both
awarded from the National Taiwan University.
His practice covers patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing and
litigation.
Mr Tsai also studied and gained a Master’s degree from the Law School, University of New Hampshire,
also known as Franklin Pierce Centre for Intellectual Property. Upon graduation, he worked for
InterDigital, Inc. in Delaware for a short period and later studied and passed the US Patent
Registration Examination.
The patent attorneys and patent engineers in Deep & Far normally hold outstanding and advanced
degrees and are generally graduated from the top five universities in this country. Our prominent
staffs are dedicated to provide the best quality service in IPRs in this country. As a proof, about one
half of top 100 incorporations in this country have experiences of seeking patented their techniques,
but more than one fifth of the top 100 incorporations has ever used services of this firm. Furthermore,
Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu had ever played the
most important role in booming the economy of this country. About one half of them has experiences
in seeking patented their techniques, and out of more than 60% of the patent-experienced
companies in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm. Certainly, we must also
represent international giants, e.g. InterDigital, MPS, Schott Glas, Toyo Ink, Motorola, Armani…
It is our philosophy to provide competent legal services that other firm cannot comparably provide.
The necessitated ensuing problem is how we can so provide? Deep & Far so achieve by selecting,
edifying and nurturing peoples who have the following personalities: learned in expertise, morally
earnest and sincerely behaved in mind and strictly disciplined between give and take. It is wellbelieved
that such properties are key factors for peoples to properly and competently behave
themselves.
Deep & Far (D&F) is willing to take challenges to prove that it is the best IP firm, and to verify its
supreme competence by e.g.:
1) Sending to D&F a pending or granted patent for its comments about how it can improve the
claims;

2) Sending to D&F a pending patent specification without the claims for it to draft the claims for
comparison with the original claims; or
3) Sending to D&F and the firm the client is currently using at the same time an initial disclosure so
that the client can compare and find out where better claims are.
Deep & Far assures the clients that no competitors can escape from the patent rights D&F safeguards
for the clients at reasonable service fees.
Because the tough economic downturn we are encountering in Taiwan, we are also encountering
severe price competition. This situation also leads to that there are too many poor quality patents
being granted because most enterprises do not have proper knowledge of the importance of patents.
For example, they might only want to spend lower cost to file a patent application without
considering the quality, or could not be alerted timely that narrow claims can protect their products
of the current version only although there are reduced fees in responding to office actions. Therefore,
the patent agents or firms of the enterprises sometimes cannot help but sacrificing the quality to keep
profits under the limited budgets of the clients. Under such social environment, it is very hard to
anticipate that the clients have strong patents, or the patent firms or attorneys can nurture the ability
of drafting wonderful scope of the claims.
Accordingly, it will not be surprised to find that there are some patent firms which cannot provide
competent services but offer extreme low price to attract clients only caring about the price of filing
a patent. This does also explain that there are poor quality patents being granted
We persist in providing quality service rather than participating into the price war because we believe
the Client will finally find the quality is the most important thing for intellectual property. If you
sacrifice the quality and surrender to the price, you actually get negative return because .a poor
quality IP is valueless. We did suffer a little last year in view of the reduced local generated works,
but we see the situation began to change this year.
This firm is used to focusing on IPR, and takes deliberate steps to practice in all fields of law. In recent
year, we make progress in either general civil law, business law or criminal law fields.
Contact Details:
13th Fl., 27 Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd., Taipei 104, Taiwan, R.O.C.
': 886-2-25856688
7: 886-2-25989900/25978989
Email: email@deepnfar.com.tw
www.deepnfar.com.tw

Patent & Trademark Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan
Rich IP & Co. has a team of attorneys and engineers with deep and varied educational
and experiential backgrounds, providing professional patent and trademark law services in
Taiwan, Chinese Area and worldwide.
Our experts have acted as trainers and educators for local patent examiners, judges, public
prosecutors, and thousands of local patent attorneys, engineers and in-house counselors
since 1992. Our professional capability always give our clients advantages of better quality
services with less service charge as compared with other IP firms in Taiwan and Chinese
area.
Clarice Chen
Specialism:
Patent (in pharmaceuticals, biotech, semiconductor, chemistry, polymer, chemical
engineering, material science, etc.)/trademark prosecution, invalidation/revocation,
infringement analysis, portfolio management and litigation
Education:
National Taiwan University (MS and BS in Chemical Engineering)
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Research in Intellectual Property (IPSI & ALI)
Shih Hsin University (MS in Law)
Professional Positions:
Patent Attorney (1997)
Editor for Taiwan area of Manual for the Handling of Applications for Patents, Designs and
Trademarks throughout the World (The Brown Book (2005~))
Patent Counselor Assigned by Taiwan Intellectual Property Office for providing pro bono
patent services (1998~)
Experiences:
Review for the Counselor of Lee & Li Attorneys-at-Law Passed (2004)
Principal (2003-2004), Deputy Principal (2002) in Patent and Technology Department of
Lee & Li Attorneys-at-Law
Senior Patent Attorney (1990-2005.3) in Patent and Technology Department of Lee & Li
Attorneys-at-Law
Contact Details:
E-mail: clarice.chen@richip.com
Tel: +886 2 2713-1060 ext. 888

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