On July 29, 2026, GCProfiles (GCP) officially released its "2026 GCP GC's Choice: Top 10 Trade Secrets Lawyers in China" list. Leveraging her exquisite professional capabilities, outstanding performance, and excellent market reputation, Llinks partner Ms. Cherri Che was honored on this list.
Cherri Che
Ms. Cherri Che graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Southwest Jiaotong University and previously worked as a software engineer. Since beginning her legal practice in 2010, she has been deeply engaged in the intellectual property (IP) field. She currently serves as a member of the Intellectual Property Law Professional Committee of the All China Lawyers Association, Director of the Trade Secret Law Professional Committee of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association, Deputy Director of the Patent Law Professional Committee of the Guangdong Lawyers Association, and an expert in the Shenzhen Intellectual Property Expert Pool.
Ms. Che has accumulated extensive experience in intellectual property, with particular expertise in handling technology-related patent and trade secret cases. She provides one-stop legal services covering IP mining, portfolio layout, operation, and rights protection for clients in sectors such as semiconductors, new materials, smart manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine. In the patent field, she is particularly skilled in corporate patent mining and layout, Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis, and patent litigation. Regarding trade secret protection, she excels in building trade secret protection systems for enterprises and has accumulated rich case-handling experience in representing clients in civil and criminal trade secret cases. The litigation cases she handled were selected for the Supreme People's Court's Annual Report on Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Intellectual Property Cases (2023), and her representative case on patent technology achievement transformation was selected as one of the "First Batch of Top Ten Typical Cases of Patent Agencies Boosting Patent Transformation and Application" by the All-China Patent Agents Association.
Ms. Che was previously named in the 2025 GCP Top 30 IP Experts, the 2024 LEGALBAND Top 15 Client's Choice IP Lawyers, the 2023 Shenzhen Outstanding Female Lawyers, and was recognized as the 2023 IP "Craftsman Lawyer" Brand Star by LegalVision.
GCProfiles' Remark
Possessing a dual background in computer science and law, Ms. Cherri Che has conducted long-term, profound research and accumulated abundant practical experience in litigation and non-litigation legal matters within IP fields such as trade secrets and patents. Prior to her legal practice, Ms. Che worked on the frontlines of technology R&D for many years, enabling her to quickly and accurately grasp the core of technical facts. She assists enterprises in comprehensively constructing professional and rigorous offensive/defensive strategies and integrated solutions. Furthermore, she provides highly targeted and practical legal support in representing clients in trade secret disputes, building trade secret protection systems, conducting trade secret due diligence, and delivering specialized training. Facing complex technical secret disputes in technology-intensive industries like high-tech, semiconductors, AI, and biomedicine, Ms. Che fully utilizes her rich practical experience and representation skills to help enterprises effectively prevent and respond to risks of core technology leaks and unfair competition, appropriately resolving a series of major and difficult legal issues, thereby earning widespread trust and high praise from corporate clients.
Client's Testimonial
"Ms. Che is an extremely diligent and responsible lawyer; both our company's General Counsel and I trust her implicitly. This trust is built upon numerous cases, many candid communications, and her continuous success in helping us overcome various difficulties and problems. Ms. Che possesses highly extensive practical experience in the field of trade secrets. Beyond the briefs and questions we provide, she offers guidance and advice that is more comprehensive and focused. Many of her suggestions provide immense value outside our own perspective, yielding pleasant surprises in knowledge acquisition. Ms. Che's team provides feedback that is exceptionally timely, sincere, and pragmatic. They consider matters from the perspective of the company's actual needs, delivering answers that perfectly combine legal standards with corporate practicalities."
GCProfiles (GCP) is an international legal industry research and analysis institution that provides reliable information, professional rankings, and research reports to the global legal market from a third-party perspective. For this ranking, over a research period of several months, the GCP China-based team conducted in-depth surveys of senior lawyers/legal counsels, corporate in-house counsels, and patent agents deeply rooted in the domestic trade secrets field. Combining self-recommendation/nomination materials, partner evaluations, real market feedback, and the team's long-term observation of the Chinese legal service market, the "2026 GCP GC's Choice: Top 10 Trade Secrets Lawyers in China" list was ultimately produced through GCP's rating mechanism and independent procedures.
