Jeilah Y. Chan

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2003

Areas of Practice
Intellectual Property

Description
Jeilah Chan is a partner in the Corporate Group. With over 20 years of experience, her practice includes all aspects of intellectual property, and litigation involving patent, trademark, contract/licensing, trade secret and copyright issues. Jeilah advises clients on IP issues arising out of M&A transactions, joint ventures, and licensing matters. She also advises clients on advertising and labelling, and IP protection, enforcement, commercialization, and brand-building strategies.

Jeilah is the author of the Intellectual Property Risk section of the Directors’ Duties in Canada, 7th edition (Lexis Nexis). She is co-author of the WTR’s Trademarks Litigation Guide (Canada) and WTR’s Best Practice in Litigation Series: Global Perspectives. She is a guest lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law School (IP LLM) and regularly presents on advocacy and IP topics.

Clients view Jeilah as “skilled, creative and extremely clever” and “able to distil the nuanced and technical legal issues into business advice” with “an incredibly high level of competence and a client-oriented approach”. Jeilah Chan is a strong advocate for her clients, whether asserting or defending their rights, or negotiating and structuring a deal on their behalf.

Professional Activities
Jeilah is currently serving a two-year term as the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Intellectual Property Review law journal. She is an active fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, serving on committees and as Past-Chair of the Basics of Law course. Jeilah is on the advisory board of ChIPs’ (Chiefs In IP) inaugural Canadian Chapter and is an active member of the International Trademark Association and the Advocates’ Society.

Background
Jeilah is actively serving on the board of The Samara Centre for Democracy, an organization that aims to secure a resilient democracy with an engaged public and responsive institutions. She is also on the steering committee of the MINA Project, a charity that challenged inequalities and systemic barriers faced by racialized and underserved youth in Canada.