Hogan Lovells appoints Dr Frederick Ch'en as new Office Managing Partner of its Tokyo Office
Tokyo, 18 December 2020 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce Dr Frederick Ch'en as the new Office Managing Partner for the firm's Tokyo office effective December 21, 2020.
Dr Frederick Ch'en joined Hogan Lovells' Tokyo office in 2013 and advises clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious IP matters, especially in the Life Sciences & Healthcare and Technology & Telecoms areas.
Ch’en’s particular focus is multi-jurisdictional patent litigation, which allows him to assist more pragmatically on IP licensing as well as IP aspects of transactions. More recently, he has also been involved in cross-border Life Sciences regulatory matters, as well as significant dispute resolution matters. Ch’en is a solicitor (England & Wales), U.S. attorney-at-law (California), U.S. patent attorney, and registered foreign lawyer in Japan. He was formerly a biochemist, has a doctorate in Medical Sciences from the University of Oxford, is a member of AIPPI Japan, the Licensing Executive Society in Japan, Pharma Delegates, and was the ALB Japan Foreign Lawyer of the Year 2020. He is currently also Office Administrative Partner for the Tokyo office.
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