Gabriela Kennedy Joins Mayer Brown JSM as Head of Asia IP
02 December 2013
Gabriela Kennedy has joined Mayer Brown JSM as the firm’s head of Asia IP. Kennedy, who was a partner at Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong, has handled all aspects of intellectual property work including enforcement, licensing and registration work. She has handled a number of high profile cases including a copyright infringement claim that went to the Court of Appeal in 1997 and ground-breaking litigation in Hong Kong on behalf of Microsoft in relation to the sale of mod-chips that enable the circumvention of copyright protection measures in Xbox consoles. She has handled a number of digital piracy cases and has been involved in lobbying for changes to the Copyright Ordinance in Hong Kong. She also has advised extensively on data protection issues in Hong Kong, in particular in relation to large outsource projects, and business process outsourcing focusing on the cross-border transfer of data and regulatory compliance for various industry sectors.
