TMT/IP Counsel (England & Wales), Registered Foreign Lawyer, Hong Kong SAR
Sher Hann holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Reading and a Master of Law in Intellectual Property Law from University College London.
Sher Hann has over a decade of experience in advising international clients on cross-border IP, technology, and data-driven transactions. She regularly assists public and private companies, private equity funds, and high-growth startups with the IP aspects of their M&A transactions, divestitures, venture capital investment, restructuring and insolvency, and financing transactions. This includes complex IP due diligences, audits, structuring, licensing and franchising, divestments, and other commercial issues arising in the context of IP commercialisation and technology transfer.
Sher Hann represents clients in a broad range of industries, including technology, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical and life sciences, energy, media and entertainment, luxury and consumer products. Sher Hann is consistently recognised as a leading IP practitioner by industry directories such as the Legal 500, World Trademark Review, World IP Review, IAM Strategy 300, Lexology Index, and Asian Legal Business. Specifically, the WTR 1000 notes her “practical and tenacious problem-solving ability” and has named her as a WTR Global Leader who “flawlessly navigates the turbulent legal landscape” in emerging jurisdictions. She was also the Country Winner of the Euromoney Rising Stars Award Asia Pacific for Thailand in 2021 and the 2019 recipient of the International Trademark Association’s Tomorrow’s Leader Award.
Sher Hann has advised on significant transactions across Asia and the Middle East, including:
Sher Hann is appointed to the Commercialisation of IP Committee and the Women’s LeadershIP Initiative of the International Trademark Association (INTA). She is also a member of the Asia Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), and is a regular speaker at international conferences and industry seminars.
Generative AI and Copyright: How Businesses Can Mitigate Legal Risks 2023 Lexology
Practical Law Digital Business Global Guide (2021) Thomson Reuters
An Overview of Franchising Law in Southeast Asia, Franchise Law Journal volume 41, number 2, Fall 2021 (ISSN: 8756-7962), American Bar Association
International Franchising (Thailand Chapter), 2nd edition (2022) (ISBN: 978-1-57823-313-7), Juris Publishing LLC
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Research in the 21st Century (2020), International Trademark Association
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