Charmaine
Koo
Partner at Deacons
Charmaine Koo is the Co-head of Deacons’ Intellectual Property Department and the Head of IP Litigation and Enforcement, Commercial IP and Entertainment and Media Practice Groups.
Charmaine is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong, Canada and England and Wales. She has a BSc in biology from the University of Toronto, an LLB from Queen’s University, an LLM from Cambridge University and a Graduate Diploma in IP Law and Practice from the University of Bristol.
Charmaine’s practice covers all aspects of IP work including anti-counterfeiting strategies and enforcement of IP rights. She advises on complex IP enforcement advice, litigation and arbitration, and has won a number of high profile court cases resulting in ground-breaking decisions in the Hong Kong IP field. Her leading cases include Yakult vs. Yakudo, Guccio Gucci S.P.A. v Cosimo Gucci and Richemont International S.A. v Da Vinci Collections (HK) Limited. One of her cases Tsit Wing (Hong Kong) Company Limited v TWG Tea Company Pte Ltd. which succeeded at the Court of Final Appeal was voted by Managing IP Magazine as “Hong Kong IP case of the Year 2013”.
Charmaine advises on all aspects of commercial IP, including the structure and documentation of complex commercial transactions, licensing, franchising, distribution, cobranding as well as IT, technology, media, entertainment and advertising agreements. She has also successfully assisted many clients in investigations by and appeals against the Privacy Commissioner, requests for data by data subjects, police and other law enforcement authorities, as well as handling data breach incidence to minimise damage, penalties and other impact to companies.
Charmaine represents many of the world’s leading brands, advertising agencies, entertainment businesses, ISPs and content providers in relation to a wide range of innovative IP or internet issues.
Charmaine has been recognised as a leading lawyer by some of the most reputable global legal directories such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, World Trademark Review 1000, among others.