Translator：Zhang Xiaotong

Recently, the globally renowned legal media, Asian Legal Business (ALB), unveiled its nominees for the " ALB China Regional Law Awards 2023: East China ". Gao Qiang(as known as Bill Gao), a senior partner at Landing Law Offices, distinguished himself with his exceptional professional prowess and achievements. He has consecutively clinched the ALB Young Lawyer of the Year: East China- Local Award for the second year.

Asian Legal Business (ALB), an elite legal publication owned by Thomson Reuters, is one of the world's most influential legal media outlets. Its goal is to provide cutting-edge legal business information and law firm evaluations for its clientele and readership, earning it a reputation as the "Forbes of the Law Circle." This particular ALB award for East China spans five provinces and one city: Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Shanghai. It seeks to recognize and promote top-performing law firms, corporate legal teams, and individuals in East China's legal service market, encouraging more legal teams and practitioners to excel in this domain.

As a senior partner at Shanghai Landing Law Offices and an external mentor at the Shanghai University Law School, Attorney Gao Qiang has received accolades from renowned international legal rating institutions in 2021-2022, earning titles like "The A-List Legal Elite" by China Business Law Journal, "2022 ALB China Client's Choice Lawyer", and "ALB Young Lawyer of Year 2022: East China". With over twelve years of professional practice, Gao specializes in IP and unfair competition legal services in sectors like the internet, creative culture, film & entertainment, and high-tech. His expertise covers copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, domain names, franchising, technology transfers and development. He excels in handling significant and challenging IP and unfair competition disputes in these sectors. Among the notable cases he has represented are the Huya "huya.com.cn" infringement/unfair competition dispute, a pioneering case in China regarding domain redirection causing unfair competition, and the Zhou Libo "zhoulibo.com" domain ownership dispute, deemed one of the "Top 10 Typical Cases for IP Judicial Protection in Shanghai 2012" and one of the "50 Typical Cases of IP Judicial Protection by the Supreme People's Court in 2012."