Reputation, in this practice area, is personal.
Mr. WEI Zhenhao
Founder of SH E&C IP Consulting and Senior Partner at Shanghai Hanyuan Law Firm. A UK-trained and China-qualified lawyer (LLM, University of Edinburgh) whose twenty-five-year career spans early service at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court, senior in-house roles at the Business Software Alliance and Microsoft (China), and private practice in Shanghai. Regularly engaged by Microsoft, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens, and Altium in support of their IP protection programmes across Greater China and the wider region.
Stephen CHALKLEY
Joined SH E&C IP Consulting as Executive Director after fifteen years building and leading the License Compliance programme across Asia for Dassault Systèmes — a tenure that unlocked hundreds of millions of dollars in additional software revenue and brought thousands of companies into legitimate licensing relationships across fourteen jurisdictions, from Greater China through Korea, Japan, ASEAN, and Australasia. Now applies that sector specialism, partner network, and enforcement playbook directly to Heads of License Compliance at other software publishers pursuing their objectives in the region. A twenty-five-year career with the Hong Kong Police Force — criminal investigation, intelligence analysis, executive protection, public-order policing, and major-event planning — preceded his move into compliance.
Ms. Helen HUANG
Director of SH E&C IP Consulting's specialised team delivering software licence-compliance solutions for global publishers across Asia. Has advised Shanghai Hanyuan since 2017 on software copyright and licence-compliance matters for clients including Microsoft, Dassault Systèmes, Hexagon, and Trimble. A Chinese-qualified lawyer and a Fellow of the ACCA, with dual degrees in Economics and Accounting from the University of Edinburgh; an earlier career in financial and corporate management, including a CFO role in the United Kingdom, gives her work a commercial register that pure-legal practitioners often lack.
Ms. Jenny GUO
A China-qualified IP lawyer with twenty years of legal practice, fifteen of those in intellectual-property matters. Joined SH E&C at the firm's establishment in 2015 and now leads the firm's administrative, human-resources, and internal legal functions. Maintains the partner-firm vetting standard, engagement-scoping discipline, and quarterly reporting cycles for which the firm is known.
Ms. Sophia PAN
Operation Director at SH E&C IP Consulting, with responsibility for the firm's License Compliance Negotiation Team — the specialist practice resolving copyright-compliance matters with global software publishers. Joined the firm in 2019 with more than a decade of dedicated licence-compliance experience, following senior roles at Microsoft and other internet-industry leaders running large-scale operational teams. Holds the COPC certification, the international standard for customer-operations excellence.
Mr. Ryo HOSHIKAWA
Director of SH E&C IP Consulting's Japan practice and the firm's Tokyo-based principal. Leads settlement-negotiation engagements with Japanese counterparties on behalf of global software publishers. A Kanagawa University law graduate with twenty-five years across Japan–China cross-border business — founding President of Techtuit China, advisor at Beijing Oriental Rainbow Technology and NEEDS Co., Ltd., and most recently founder and Representative Director of OWS JP Co., Ltd. and Nexai Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, advising on international business consulting and cross-border compliance. Professionally fluent in Japanese and Chinese, with deep relationships across the region's technology sector.