IP Expert

Overview

Khin Khin Zaw is a partner at LawPlus Myanmar Ltd. She obtained an LL.B. and an LL.M. from Yangon University and has been advising on law concerning intellectual property, real property, joint ventures, commercial transactions and civil and criminal litigations for more than 35 years. She was a legal officer at the Ministry of Construction for 10 years and at the Ministry of Immigration and Population for seven years before she left government service to work with a law firm in Singapore before establishing her own practice in Myanmar in 2009. She joined LawPlus Myanmar Ltd. in 2013.

She has been advising foreign and local clients on setting up companies, land purchases and land leases, joint venture and shareholder agreements, banking and exchange control regulations, inter-company loans, employment law issues, trademark registration, intellectual property rights enforcement and civil litigation. 

She is a member of the Yangon Bar Association, the Myanmar Intellectual Property Proprietors’ Association (MIPPA), the ASEAN Intellectual Property Association, the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) and the International Trademark Association (INTA).

Asia IP named her as an intellectual property expert in Myanmar in 2022 and 2023.