Tai Foong Lam

Partner

CV
PRACTICE AREAS
  • Intellectual Property
ADMISSION
  • Barrister-at-law, Lincoln’s Inn
  • Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
QUALIFICATION
  • LL.B (Hons), University of London
LANGUAGES 

English

Profile

Tai Foong Lam is a well-known IP practitioner specialising in information technology (IT) and telecommunications and is recognised in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 as one of the leading individuals in IT and Telecoms practice. His clients in the field of telecommunication include many of the telecommunications companies in Malaysia.

Foong Lam has wide-ranging experience in negotiating and drafting commercial agreements relating to intellectual property, telecommunications networks and services, information technology, outsourcing, e-commerce, e-banking, telecommunications, contract manufacturing, technology transfer, research and development, merchandising, franchising, licensing, provision of services, contract manufacture and distribution rights. Foong Lam also works with corporate lawyers on corporate transactions involving Intellectual Property.

Foong Lam also has an active practice in IP litigation and enforcement of IP rights. Several IP litigation Foong Lam was involved in have been reported in the Malaysian legal journal. Foong Lam is also very active with IP fraternity in Malaysia and internationally. Foong Lam is a member of the Bar Council IP Committee for many years and is also the President of the Malaysian chapter of the International Association for Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the world’s leading non-government organisation for research and formulation of policy and the law relating to the protection of intellectual property.

In the past several years, Foong Lam has been expanding his litigation practice to insurance related tort litigation, having handled more than 60 cases.

Foong Lam graduated from the Queen Mary and Westfield College of the University of London with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1992. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1993. He was called to the Malaysia Bar in 1995. Foong Lam also specialises in information technology (IT) and telecommunications and is recognised in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 as one of the leading individuals in IT and Telecoms practice.