Hylands Law Firm (“Hylands”) was established in 1990s. Today, Hylands is renowned as a large and full-service law firm and has become a leading legal practice groups in intellectual property and its broad derivative fields. Hylands has more than 40 partners and over 300 attorneys, paralegals and other professionals. Headquartered in the Central Business District (CBD) of Beijing, Hylands also has branch offices in Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Based on our leading position in the traditional IP practice areas, Hylands has expanded into the growing fields of culture & entertainment, media & telecoms, franchising & licensing, sports legal services, investment & financing in cultural industry. Our attorneys provide sophisticated and comprehensive legal services on copyright and neighboring right, patent, trademark, anti-unfair competition, antitrust, trade secret, domain name, franchising, customs protection and layout designs of integrated circuits, etc.

Led by Mr. MA Xiaogang, not only the founding partner of Hylands but also a notable Chinese IP attorney, Hylands has been steadily ranked in a leading position in the practice area of intellectual property litigation and non-litigation field in PRC for years. Our attorneys witnessed the rapid development of the Chinese intellectual property-related industries in recent years, accumulated great resources and rich experience in the field of intellectual property and its broad derivative by participating into the intellectual property-market, and have become an outstanding model in this area. Moreover, Mr. MA Xiaogang and Hylands IP team have frequently been invited to participate into national legislative activities.