美国Ropes & Gray律师事务所已经聘请林文仲担任其上海办公室合伙人。林氏是一名知识产权律师，在国内客户在非争议性以及争议性知识产权事务方面提供法律专业服务已经有六年多的经验，他从霍金路伟律所上海办公室的合伙人职位上转投而来。林氏在霍金路伟领导着该所曾处理过中国规模最大知识产权案子的团队，并曾代理基因泰克、碧迪医疗器械公司、苹果公司等客户。

Ropes & Gray律所在二零一一年七月设立了上海办公室，专注于私募、投资基金和并购交易，尤其是生命科学产业。该律所称林氏的加入将给其业务能力增加深度，特别是在有关知识产权资产估值和为保护这些资产而进行的转让架构方面。

Ropes & Gray律所上海办公室主理合伙人Arthur Mok说:「知识产权是中国生命科学产业交易中典型的核心成分。林文仲是中国为数不多的具有知识产权资产转让架构经验的律师之一。他的专长为Ropes & Gray给客户的交易提供法律咨询方面增添了重要的方面。」

此项任命使得该律所上海办公室的合伙人数量增加到三人。

Ropes & Gray has appointed Geoffrey Lin as a partner in its Shanghai office. Lin, who is an intellectual property lawyer with more than six years experience in advising clients on non-contentious and contentious IP matters across the region, joins the firm from the Shanghai office of Hogan Lovells where he was also a partner. While at Hogan Lovells, Lin led a team that handled the settlement of the largest IP case in Chinese history and has represented clients such as Genentech Inc, Becton, Dickinson and Company, and Apple.

Ropes & Gray launched its Shanghai office in July 2011 to focus on private equity, investment funds and M&A transactions, particularly in the life sciences industry. The firm said that the addition of Lin will add extra depth to its transactional capabilities especially in relation to the valuation of IP assets and the structuring of transfers to protect those assets.

"Intellectual property is typically the core component of deals in the life sciences industry in China,” said Arthur Mok, managing partner of the firm’s Shanghai office. “Geoffrey Lin is one of a handful of IP lawyers in China with experience in structuring the transfer of those IP assets, and his knowledge adds an important aspect to the counsel Ropes & Gray provides clients on their transactions.”

The appointment increases the number of partners in the firm’s Shanghai office to three.ALB