Benjamin Bai

Benjamin Bai is currently a partner at KWM in Shanghai, focusing on global IP litigation. Before that, he joined the Amber Group in July 2022. Benjamin Bai had previously been a partner at top international law firms, Jones Day and Allen & Overy in the United States and China where he focused on high-stake IP litigation and licensing. With over two decades of legal experience, he has gained recognition for his work and was awarded prestigious accolades including China Law and Practice’s IP Lawyer of the Year in 2015. Benjamin was also named one of the World’s Top 300 IP Strategists and one of the World’s 50 Most Influential People in IP in 2020 by Intellectual Asset Management and Managing Intellectual Property respectively. Over the past decade, he has focused on high-stake technology litigation and IP licensing in China, with a particular emphasis on patent and trade secret litigation. From 2014 to 2015, Dr Bai led a team of lawyers and obtained four landmark preliminary injunctions in patent cases in China. These trail-blazing cases were recognised as exemplary cases by the Chinese courts. Dr Bai is also a leading expert on trade secret protection in China.