Honors & Awards
Legal Counsel
USA Olympic Committee
August 2008
Appointed Foreign Legal Counsel to the USA Olympic Team for 2008 Beijing Olympics
Foreign Legal Counsel
Brunei Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
March 2013
Appointed Foreign Legal Counsel in China to Brunei Embassy to the People's Republic of China
China Foreign Invested Enterprises Best Foreign Legal Consultant
Global Law Experts based in United Kingdom
August 2013
The Global Law Experts (GLE) accreditation process is by invitation only China Foreign Legal Counsel Edward Eugene Lehman was recommended by the GLE research team after interviews with over 800+ in-house corporate in-house counsel worldwide. GLE has bestowed this certification on Edward Eugene Lehman for the past five consecutive years. Mr. Lehman is the longest serving foreign lawyer who has worked in mainland China for the past 27+ consecutive years.
Foreign Legal Counsel
Kingdom of the Netherlands
October 2008
Foreign Legal Counsel to Embassy of the Netherlands for the People's Republic of China
Foreign Legal Counsel
Republic of Nigeria
September 1993
Foreign Legal Counsel to Embassy of the Republic of Nigeria of the People's Republic of China.
International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2014 China
WHO'SWHOLEGAL Law and Business Research United Kingdom
April 2013
Identified by WHO'SWHOLEGAL's independent research organization in cooperation with the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, and after polling "clients and peers" as being among the world's leading business attorneys in the People's Republic of China
Foreign Legal Counsel
Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee
May 2004
Foreign Legal Counsel to Beijing Organizing Committee's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games
International WHO'S WHO of Trademark Lawyers Mainland China
WHO'S WHO LEGAL law and Business Research of the UK
July 2013
Selected by my peers as one of the leading practitioners in Mainland China Trademark Lawyers for the past ten consecutive years. As former Intellectual Property Fellow at China Academy of Social Sciences helped make draft provisions to update Chinese laws, policies and regulations concerning Chinese intellectual property for submission to the Standing Committee of the China National People's Congress.
Additional Honors & Awards - Named leading Minerals and Mining Lawyer in China and Mongolia 2012 by Lawyers World Annual Jurisdiction Awards 2012
- Selected as Leading Corporate Immigration Lawyers 2012
- Named "Best Energy Lawyer China 2011" by the publication "Getting The Deal Through".
- Selected The International Who's Who of Franchise Lawyers 2011
- Nominated as one of the leading lawyers in LEADING LAWYERS 2011.
- Listed in the 2011 edition of Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
- Nominated to PLC's Life Sciences Handbook as a leading life sciences lawyer in China by Practical Law Company: Which Lawyer, 2010
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Intellectual Property, 2008
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Corporate Governance, 2008
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Capital Markets/Corporate Finance, 2008
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Insurance/Reinsurance, 2008
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Competition/Anti-Trust, 2008
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Construction & Property, 2008
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Labor & Employment, 2008
- Named Who's Who of Franchise Lawyers, 2008
- Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Intellectual Property, 2007
- Named Who's Who of Franchise Lawyers, 2006
- Recommended as an expert in IP practice in PLC Cross-border Corporate Intellectual Property Handbook, 2005
- Named Who's Who of International Trademark Lawyers, 2004
- Elected Governor American Chamber of Commerce 1996-7
- Founding Governor Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce 1988-1989
- Former Fellow at China Academy of Social Sciences
- Legal Commentator China Central Television (CCTV) the China governmental controlled media outlet
- Inducted into Loyola Academy Athletic Hall of Fame 2009F
- our year Varsity Letterman in Track & Field NCAA Division III
- Named as Asian Law & Practice's Best PRC Banking Lawyer Listed in the World's Leading Lawyers 2000-2004
- Listed in Top 500 Lawyers, Asia Pacific Legal
- Named Who's Who of Banking Lawyers, 2004
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