George Fu
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native of Shanghai, the largest city in China at nearly 27 million people, attorney George Fu began his legal career in the judicial realm after studying abroad in the United States and the former Soviet Union. His worldly experience in those countries has been instrumental to his success as an intellectual property lawyer and senior founding partner with Watson & Band Law Offices in Shanghai, a coastal city that is the global commercial hub for the most populous country in the world.
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The firm, which Fu helped form in 1995 with two other attorneys, now boasts 13 offices in Mainland China, along with a few satellite offices. The firm’s dramatic growth over the past three decades has coincided with the surge in foreign economic activity in China, according to the 68-year-old Fu. Fu, whose practice focuses on all aspects of IP law as well as arbitration and litigation matters, said his firm’s decision to join Primerus several years ago was prompted by a desire to expand and strengthen its global network of legal
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contacts principally for the benefit of the Chinese companies it represents. “We represent a number of companies who do business abroad and we wanted the ability to refer them to law firms worldwide,” Fu explained, adding that “we had to make ourselves ready” when asked to provide legal contacts on a global basis. His involvement has included opportunities to attend the 2022 Primerus International Summit in Washington, D.C. and two Annual Meetings of the Association of Corporate Counsel, one
