Alban is a preeminent lawyer with a specialised focus on complex patent litigation and other contentious IP related cases.

Alban is the managing partner at our ATMD Bird & Bird office in Singapore and he is also a member of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Groups in Singapore, which handle all aspects of intellectual property (IP) law, information technology and communications, computer law, advertisement and entertainment law.

Alban represents major software companies, computer manufacturers, well known trade mark owners, pharmaceutical companies, book publishers, international airlines and well known hotel chains, as well as collection agencies and advertising agencies. He is regularly engaged in complex patent litigation and other contentious IP-related cases, and has also been involved in a number of high profile IP cases before the Singapore Court of Appeal.

Alban is one of the founding partners of our ATMD Bird & Bird Singapore office. He has written and presented many articles and papers in the spectrum of IP law. He is the author of the book Enforcing Injunctions, co-contributor of Essays on Computer Law, and general editor of A Guide to Singapore Patent Law. He has also authored the Patent section of the Halsbury Law of Singapore, and the Singapore chapter on Patent Claim Interpretation.

He has been consistently regarded as a leading intellectual property lawyer in Asia.