Legal and Funding Issues for Successful Startups

9:00 to 9:15 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Philip McConnaughay, Dean and Professor, Peking University School of Transnational Law

Wu Yundong, Chancellor, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Professor, School of Chemical Biology

Erwin Chemerinsky, Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

9:15 to 10:30 a.m.

Session I: Entity Formation and Early Financing

Adam Sterling, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business, former startup and venture capital attorney, Gunderson Dettmer moderator and overview

David Thomas, Vice President of Industry Research & Analysis, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)

LIN Lin, Assistant Professor of Law and Finance, National University Singapore, venture capital, private equity and crowd-sourced funding in China/Asia

LIU Fang, Partner, Broad & Bright, China perspective

Discussion and Q&A

10:30 to 11:00 a.m.

Featured Speaker: LU Shan, Deputy Director, Shenzhen United Property and Share Rights Exchange, VC

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Session II: Regulatory and Trade Issues

Mark Cohen, Senior Fellow and Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, former Senior Advisor for China, US Patent and Trademark Office

Discussion and Q&A

12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

LUNCH

1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

Session III: Advanced Financing and Related Issues

Sang Yop Kang, Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law, moderator

Adam Sterling, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business, former startup and venture capital attorney, Gunderson Dettmer, overview

Sang Yop Kang, Peking University School of Transnational Law, control issues

LING Tong, Lawyer, FangDa, China perspective

Discussion and Q&A

2:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Session IV: Protecting the “Big Idea”

Robert Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosata Professor of Law, Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, moderator and overview

K Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences IP Investment Company

Jeff Cao, Tencent, China perspective

LI Binxin, Partner, Baker McKenzie/Fenxun, China perspective

Discussion and Q&A

4:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Featured Speaker: DONG Shaoling, CEO, Zhongbei Mingyi Tech, Shenzhen IT startup, products include “RabbitPre” application generator with 8 million corporate users including Alibaba and China Mobile, Dong Shaoling named Forbes “Top 30 Under 30,” 2017

4:30 to 5:45 p.m.

Session V: Employee Issues

Robert Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosata Professor of Law, Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, moderator and overview

ZHU Shaobin, Partner, Morgan Lewis, China perspective

Discussion and Q&A

5:45 to 6:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks