Member Profiles

ZHU Qin holds a bachelor's degree in accounting. She was admitted to the PRC bar in 2010 and received her master degree in law from Tongji University in 2012. She has been working as Senior Tax Advisor in Shanghai office of a German tax consulting firm for five years after finishing her studies. ZHU Qin joined Luther in 2017.

Ray Zhao joined Unitalen in 2002 and began to engage in confirmation, authorization and rights protection of IP rights. As a senior partner of Unitalen, he successively served as the Director of the Legal Department and the Director of the International Trademark Department, personally handled or guided other lawyers and agents to handle a large number of IP cases, and accumulated profound theoretical knowledge and practical experience. He is good at solving trademark disputes and trademark infringement problems through administrative and judicial procedures, and has successfully dealt with many quite difficult litigation and non-litigation cases. Ray Zhao has handled series cases related to IP right confirmation and IP infringement of many domestic and foreign multinational companies.He has also served as a perennial IP consultant for many famous listed companies, providing strategies and legal advices related to IP rights. Several cases managed by Zhao Lei were rated by provincial high courts as the top ten intellectual property cases of the year. He has been awarded the Outstanding Individual Lawyer in China by WTR for many years for his outstanding performance in solving complex, difficult and non-litigation IP cases. He was selected as Foreign-related Attorney Talent Pool by Beijing Lawyers Association. As an expert in trademark law, Zhao Lei participated in the third amendment of China's Trademark Law and implementation regulations at the invitation of The State Trademark Office of China, and participated in the discussion of laws and regulations of the State Intellectual Property Office for many times. Zhao Lei has also delivered keynote speeches at large seminars organized by many international associations and governments, including INTA, ECTA, FICPI and AIPPI in China, systematically introducing China's intellectual property system. Education Background Master of Laws, University of San Francisco Master of Laws, China University of Political Science and Law　　 Bachelor of Laws, Northwest University of Politics and Law Professional Qualification:  Mr. Zhao Lei is a member of many international organizations, such as MARQUES, AIPPI, INTA, ECTA and FICPI. He is also a member of All-China Lawyers Association, China Intellectual Property Research Society and China Trademark Association (CTA). Ray Zhao is currently the co-chair of the Global Advisory Council (GAC) of INTA China. He is responsible for providing advice to Chairman and CEO of INTA, promoting regional policy development and cross-industry communication. He is also the Deputy Director of International Exchange and Development Committee of China Trademark Association, and the executive Secretary of Beijing Trademark Association. At the same time, he is a committee member of INTA Unreal Campaign Committee, ECTA Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, China Committee of MARQUES, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property rights (AIPPI) Copyright Committee, Beijing Lawyers Association Trademark Committee. At present, Ray Zhao is an external tutor for postgraduate students in MTI College of China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), a part-time teacher for postgraduate students in Shanghai International Intellectual Property College of Tongji University (TJU) and a part-time teacher in Beijing Professional Cadre College of Political Science and Law. Admission Lawyer Zhao Lei attaches great importance to theoretical learning and summing up working experience. Mr. Zhao is actively engaged in trademark theory and practice research and has published many articles in influential IP magazines and newspapers both at home and abroad, such as World Trademark Review, World Intellectual Property Review, ECTA Daily, Trademark Lawyer, Asia IP, IP Pro, China Intellectual Property, China Industry & Commerce News and China Invention & Patent. He also participated in the compilation of professional books such as Trademark and Patent Agency, Practical Trademark Guide, Intellectual Property Strategy and Practice, Enterprise Intellectual Property Protection Series -- Trademarks, etc. He has been interviewed by many newspapers and magazines, such as China Inventions and Patents, Famous Brand Times, China Intellectual Property News, Beijing News, etc. Working Language Chinese English

Daniel Posse is a partner at Posse Herrera Ruiz. He leads the Dispute Resolution practice. Daniel has more than 30 years of experience in litigation, with great expertise in contentious matters of the most diverse natures and has acted as a legal advisor and arbitrator in numerous national and international arbitration proceedings. His work includes arbitration, civil, commercial and administrative litigation, bankruptcy proceedings and collections, as well as civil, commercial and administrative advice to national and international clients. He is an arbitrator of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and of the Arbitration Center of the Superintendence of Societies, and a member of the Arbitration Committee of Colombia and the State Entities Relations Committee of ALARB. Daniel is positioned by Chambers & Partners as a band 1 lawyer in dispute resolution. Publications such as The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers consider him a leader in litigation, arbitration and mediation and is a recommended lawyer by Who’s Who Legal in litigation. It is also recognized by Benchmark Litigation as a “litigation star“. Admitted to practice in Colombia since 1985. He speaks English and Spanish.

Mr Edmond Cibamba Diata has been a lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Kinshasa/Matete since 2001, after having worked as a Legal Defender since 1994. He has 27 years of experience in the practice of Law in the DRC; He has been a mining and quarrying Agent in the DRC since 2003 and therefore has 18 years of experience in Congolese Mining Law; He has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Université Libre de Kinshasa since 2003 and lectures on Tax Law and Mining Law; He has been a legal consultant in South Africa since 2010 where he assists investors with interests or wishing to invest in the DRC, to accompany them in all legal security; He is listed as an arbitrator with the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA) since 2015 and is very active in the resolution of business disputes in both jurisdictional and arbitral proceedings. In this capacity, he represents and assists clients before the courts of the DRC and before the CCJA, both in arbitration and in cassation and before other international arbitration bodies such as the International Court of Arbitration. For nearly three decades, Mr Edmond Cibamba Diata has been involved in the fields of Business Law and practices Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Mining and Hydrocarbons Law, Tax and Customs Law, Securities Law etc. Mr Edmond Cibamba Diata was a member of the Law Firm of Lawyers and Mining and Quarrying Agents “Emery Mukendi Wafwana & Associates, SCP” (“EMW&A, SCP”) where he was a Director. With EMW&A, SCP, He advised and assisted the government of the DRC in the reforms of the legal, fiscal, customs and foreign exchange frameworks of the mining sector in collaboration with international consultants, between 2001 and 2003, which led to the promulgation of the Mining Code (2002), the Mining Regulations (2003) and the decrees on the statutes, organisation and operation of the Mining Cadastre and the Mining and Quarrying Rights Validation Commission; Also with EMW&A, SCP, He has advised and assisted the government of the DRC in the reforms and revision of the Mining Code (2002) which resulted in the Law amending and supplementing the Mining Code (2018). Mr Edmond Cibamba Diata has carried out numerous comparative studies for the benefit of mining companies having concluded mining conventions with the Congolese State under the old Mining Law, between the fiscal and customs advantages of the new Mining Code and those of the mining conventions. He has assisted mining companies in obtaining mining rights from the Mining Registry and in managing these rights in relation to the various related mining obligations. He has advised and assisted several firms in the settlement of tax or parafiscal disputes with the DGI and DGRAD as well as those with various public administrations; He has issued numerous legal opinions for the benefit of his clients resolving many Business Law issues and published several studies in the fields of Business Law, Commercial Law, and Mining Taxation. Mr Edmond Cibamba Diata is a co-founding partner of ELITE LAW FIRM, a professional civil company, a Law Firm of Mining and Quarrying Agents under Congolese law, with its main office in Kinshasa and two secondary offices, in Lubumbashi and Kolwezi.

Professional education:  Master's degree in Tax Advice. Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional (UCI), 2016.  International Financial Reporting Standards. Colegio de Contadores Públicos de Costa Rica, 2013.  Specialist in Taxes. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR). 2008.  English Interpreter. Natural Learning Corporation (NLC), 2005.  Bachelor´s Degree in Business Administration (Accounting emphasis). Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), 2000. Job experience:  Partner of Despacho Jiménez y Guzmán, Asociados, S.A. Since March, 2011. General Comptroller of Colchonería Jirón, S.A.,  an important company in the mattress market in  Costa Rica. 2006 to March 2011. Internal Auditor of Central Azucarera Tempisque, S.A. (CATSA),  an important company of sugarcane cultivation in Costa Rica . 2001-2005: Financial Auditor of Despacho Jiménez Andreoli y Asociados, S.A. (Public Accountants). 1995-2000.