Daniel Albrecht is a German attorney at law and Managing Counsel of Starke.

He is also external expert for the EU China IPR SME Helpdesk and arbitrator at the Qingdao Arbitration Commission, member of International Trade Committee of the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA) and also member of the MARQUES Cyberspace Team.

Daniel is former member of the board of the German Chamber of Commerce in North China, former Guest Professor for civil law at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing and former Guest Professor of the Global Campus of the Union of Western & Eastern Education (UWEE).

He published several articles about Chinese IPR and E-Commerce matters.

He specializes in Intellectual Property, corporate law, commercial law as well as labor law. He also assists his clients in drafting and negotiating complex contract documentations. Further on Daniel advises international businesses on the acquisition or sale of public and private companies. His clients comprise foreign and foreign-invested companies in different areas. Before joining Starke, Daniel practiced for a well-known law firm in China and the oldest foreign law firm in Japan, where he represented mostly German speaking companies in the field of corporate and IP law. His first professional encounter with China was in 2004 as a law clerk.

In his spare time, he is a committed Rotarian.

Chunmei Li is a specialist in IP, customer services and the import of commercial products. Her clients comprise local and foreign invested companies in different areas.

Before joining Starke, Chunmei worked for a well known Japanese import and trading company in Germany, where she handled German, Japanese and Chinese clients and for a Chinese automotive company as assistant of the board. She is a native Chinese and studied econimics at the University of Niigata (Japan). Chunmei speaks Chinese, English, Japanese and German.

Lei Tao studied law, regional studies of China and Asian studies at the University of Cologne and the University of Bonn. She joined the team in August 2017. She advises clients in trademark-, patent- and design related cases. In addtion she is responsibe for the client communication and the office management.