Awards & Rankings
For over a decade, our team members have collaborated to stay on top of IP and corporate issues, helping clients improve operations, reduce costs, limit risks, enforce rights and achieve common business goals. For these reasons, the firm and its professionals are consistently recognized in client and peer-reviewed industry awards and rakings as being among the best.
Awards
- 2008
- Watson & Band was awarded as one of the Most Recognizable Leading Law Firms by the All China Lawyers Association
- 2008
- Watson & Band was awarded as one of the Leading IP Law Firms by ALB
- 2008
- Watson & Band was ranked as one of the Top Ten IP Firms by China Law & Practice
- 2008
- Watson & Band was ranked as the Band 1 leading IP firm by Chambers Asia, Chambers & Partners
- 2007
- Watson & Band was awarded as an Outstanding Firm by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice
- 2007
- Partner Jean Yang was nominated as an Oriental Distinguished Lawyers by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice
- 2006
- Watson & Band was awarded as an Outstanding Firm by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice
- 2005
- Watson & Band was awarded as an Outstanding Firm by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice
- 2004
- Watson & Band was awarded as an Outstanding Firm by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice
Rankings
- 2008
- Watson & Band was ranked as one of the Top Ten IP Firms by China Law & Practice
- 2008
- Watson & Band was ranked as the Band 1 leading IP firm by Chambers Asia, Chambers & Partners
- 2009
- Watson & Band was ranked first with respect to IP services (in Shanghai) in 2009 and kept its leading position with respect to litigation and arbitration and corporate and commercial affairs such as bankruptcy and restructuring according to the comprehensive billboard for Shanghai-based lawfirms that was arranged by the non-profit ranking institution Lawfirm50; Watson & Band was ranked eighth overall in Shanghai. Lawfirm50 commented on Watson & Band's performance in 2009 as follows: "Watson & Band is a firm with distinctive features which has kept a leading edge in IP-related fields such as patents and trademarks; Watson & Band has also represented a lot of IP-related super cases in China and is therefore greatly recognized in the business. In addtion, Watson & Band has also made considerable achievements with respect to general corporate affairs and settlement of disputes."