Sun is a managing partner in Foley & Lardner’s Intellectual Property Litigation and International practices and chair of the firm’s Asia practice. She is also a member of the firm’s Life Sciences, Entertainment & Media, and Automotive Industry teams. She works with the firm’s clients on intellectual property strategy, counseling, and litigation; cross-border merger and acquisition-related IP; international technology transfer; licensing; and portfolio management. Prior to joining Foley, Sun was with the Shanghai office of an international law firm, where she was head of the China IP practice. She 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, Sun practiced intellectual property law in Beijing. While in the United States, 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.

Sun received her LL.M. degree from the George Washington University Law School and earned her LL.B. degree from Peking University, with honors. 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. Sun’s recent publications include “How IP Is Transacted in China Related Mergers and Acquisitions,” Managing Intellectual Property (Dec.-Jan.-Feb. 2006); the China chapter of Intellectual Property in Asia (LexisNexis 2005); “New Franchising Measures in China,” Asia Law (April 2005); “The Inside View on Enforcement in China,” Managing Intellectual Property (July 2004); and China Intellectual Property for Foreign Business (LexisNexis 2004).