For the past seventeen years, Ms. Sun has practiced in U.S., Hong Kong and Mainland China. Prior to joining Foley, she was with the Shanghai office of an international law firm, where she was head of the China IP Practice. Ms. Sun spent seven years practicing law in the United States as an attorney in the Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia offices of a major national law firm, before returning first to Hong Kong and then to Shanghai to practice intellectual property law in 2002. In the early 1990s, Ms. Sun practiced intellectual property law in Beijing.

While in the United States, Ms. Sun also was an in-house attorney for a high-technology company working on the trans-Pacific interface and served as a student law clerk to the Hon. Randall R. Rader of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is the author of numerous publications on IP-related transactions in China, and has lectured widely and participated in conferences on intellectual property law both in the United States and Asia.

Ms. Sun received her LL.M. degree from the George Washington University Law School and earned her LL.B. degree from Peking University, with honors.

Recent Publications:

• "Negotiating Business Transactions in China," Inside the Minds: Best Practices for International Business Transactions in China, Thomson Reuters/Aspatore publication March 2009
• "Keeping Olympic-related Rights on Track," World Trademark Review (May/June 2008)
• "Beat the First Filing Blues in China," Managing Intellectual Property (May 2008)
• "You Can Protect IP in China-Know the People. Know the law. Decide to act," Legal Times (October 15, 2007)
• "Avoid and Mitigate Risks of Mergers and Acquisitions by Foreign Capital (in Chinese), " China Invention & Patent (First Issue 2007)
• "How IP is Transacted in China Related Mergers and Acquisitions," Managing Intellectual Property (Dec.-Jan.-Feb. 2006)
• China chapter of Intellectual Property in Asia (a book published and revised by LexisNexis in Dec. 2005)
• "New Franchising Measures in China," Asia Law (April 2005)
• "The Inside View on Enforcement in China," Managing Intellectual Property (July 2004)
• China Intellectual Property for Foreign Business (a book published by LexisNexis in Spring 2004)
• "Technology Import and Export in Post-WTO China," American Bar Association Newsletter (Volume 2, No. 4, Summer 2003)
• "How Chinese Companies Litigate IP Cases in the United States, (in Chinese)" State Intellectual Property Office News (May 20, 2003, May 28, 2003 and June 6, 2003)
• "Rules of Engagement for IP Litigation," Managing Intellectual Property (May 2003)
• "Patent Litigation Takes Dramatic Step Forward," Managing Intellectual Property (January 2003)