Mr. Deng Hongchang is a partner of SHM Law Firm. He has Chinese patent agent qualification and holds the title of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS). Additionally, he has been appointed as a "Shenzhen Entrepreneurship Mentor" by the Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and serves as a mediator at the Futian District Court in Shenzhen. He is also recognized as an expert qualification by the Guangdong IP Protection Association, “a rising star in foreign-related lawyers” in Shenzhen, and “one of the first 30 experts” at the Nanshan District Listing Company Legal Service Center. Mr. Deng's primary practice areas include foreign-related intellectual property, such as patents, trade secrets, and trademarks, as well as equity and securities financing, and legal services for the foreign-related e-cigarette industry. He possesses extensive practical experience and research in these fields. Cases represented by Mr. Deng in intellectual property have received numerous professional awards, such as the "Guangdong Province Major Event in Trade Secret Protection" and the "Top Ten Typical Intellectual Property Cases Handled by Shenzhen Lawyers." In equity and securities financing dispute resolution cases, the total amount involved in cases he has handled reaches tens of billions of Chinese yuan. In the foreign-related e-cigarette industry, Deng has provided specialized and ongoing legal advisory services to several excellent e-cigarette companies and Deng's legal practice articles in the foreign-related e-cigarette field have been republished by several well-known tobacco and e-cigarette media outlets. Furthermore, Mr. Deng has provided litigation, ongoing, and other non-litigation legal services to several well-known multinational hotels, leading Chinese real estate companies, top American Amazon seller companies, renowned German CNC technology companies, large American multinational furniture companies, and domestic Chinese technology and financial enterprises. Recently, he achieved victories in cases involving a dispute over trade secret contracts for a German-funded enterprise, a patent infringement dispute for a well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, patent invalidation cases, administrative penalties for a Chinese technology company regarding trade secrets, non-competition disputes, a U.S. Section 337 investigation involving patents for a series of cross-border e-commerce disputes, a series of investment and financing disputes, and a large-scale arbitration case involving a significant amount of pandemic-related supplies contracts for a Chinese manufacturing company, all of which met the expectations of his clients. Contact details: deng.hongchang@shm.law/ +86 186 8156 769