Partner United States
Areas of Practice:
Alex Chan is a Partner at Devlin Law Firm LLC. He was previously an associate at Fish & Richardson, P.C. and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, among others.
Mr. Chan is a seasoned trial lawyer with a national practice focused on complex intellectual property litigation, including patent, trade secret, and copyright disputes. He has served as lead or second chair in numerous high-stakes matters before various district courts, the Federal Circuit, the PTAB, and the ITC. His litigation experience spans all critical phases of a dispute—from pre-suit investigation to appellate briefing. He often leads expert witness strategy in cases involving technical infringement, invalidity, and complex damages modeling, and is particularly skilled at translating dense technical issues into compelling legal arguments for judges and juries.
As an AI innovator and named inventor on multiple AI-focused patents, Mr. Chan also has substantial transactional experience with first-of-their-kind technology deals. He represents clients across various verticals—including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and networks, software applications, consumer products, energy and energy transition, medical devices, financial services, and semiconductors—in high-value IP transactions. He regularly leads complex IP and commercial due diligence investigations and advises on standalone IP matters such as patent and technology licensing, technology transfer, joint ventures, software licensing, outsourcing, brand licensing, and IP dispute resolution.
In addition, leveraging his deep expertise and global certification in CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, and CIPT, Mr. Chan regularly advises clients on high-stakes privacy and cybersecurity matters across both transactional and litigation contexts. He counsels clients on compliance with U.S., European, and international privacy frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, HIPAA, GLBA, and many others. His transactional practice includes designing and auditing privacy and security programs, structuring governance frameworks, negotiating data processing agreements (DPAs), and embedding privacy-by-design and security-by-default principles into product, engineering, and business operations.
Mr. Chan also advises on cross-border data transfers, localization strategies, vendor and third-party risk management, incident response planning, and AI governance. He integrates best practices from leading security and privacy frameworks—including NIST, ISO/IEC 27001, 27002, and 27701, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2—to help clients align compliance with operational resilience. On the litigation side, he represents clients in enforcement actions as well as in complex civil litigation involving data breach class actions, contractual indemnity disputes, and statutory claims. His practice sits at the intersection of law, technology, and business strategy—helping clients protect innovation, mitigate risk, and scale with confidence.
