LAM Chung Nian heads the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Practice at WongPartnership LLP. His main areas of practice are intellectual property (“IP”), media, telecommunications and information technology (“IT”) law (both contentious and non-contentious). Chung Nian is involved in IP transactional, enforcement and advisory work.

Apart from handling IP registration matters, he also advises on agreements for their exploitation, including licensing and franchising, as well as IP asset acquisitions, divestments and other arrangements in the context of corporate mergers and acquisitions and IP due diligence. He also has experience handling contentious IP/IT matters, involving patent, copyright, trade mark and other IP/IT disputes.

He is admitted to the Singapore Bar and to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales, and is also a registered patent agent in Singapore. He is recommended as a leading lawyer in the 2010 edition of the Expert Guides – Guide to the World’s Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers. In Chambers Asia Pacific 2011 he has earned “client praise for providing an excellent service, with sources noting his ‘strong analysis, writing and litigation skills’, and in-depth knowledge of the music industry”. In The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Guide to Asia’s Commercial Law Firms 2010/2011, Chung Nian is described as “congenial and quick-minded” in the area of Intellectual Property.