The Team
At ShinyRise, our team is dedicated to providing strategic, business-driven legal solutions for e-commerce businesses, international trade, and intellectual property enforcement. With a strong background in Customs law, regulatory compliance, and litigation, we guide clients through complex legal challenges with clarity and confidence.
Our attorneys and professionals bring a wealth of experience, industry insight, and a client-first approach to every case. We pride ourselves on being proactive, responsive, and results-oriented, ensuring that businesses—whether startups or established enterprises—receive the tailored legal support they need to succeed in the U.S. market and beyond.
Get to know the people behind ShinyRise—your trusted legal partners in navigating today’s dynamic business landscape.
Managing Attorney
Grace is the founder and managing attorney of ShinyRise, where she provides strategic legal counsel to e-commerce businesses, guiding them through complex transactions, dispute resolution, and intellectual property protection. With deep expertise in e-commerce litigation, business structuring, and brand enforcement, she helps clients navigate intellectual property infringement, contractual disputes, and online marketplace enforcement. Grace also advises on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance, ensuring businesses optimize their operations while mitigating risk. Actively engaged in industry leadership, she stays at the forefront of legal developments in online brand protection and anti-counterfeiting.
Counsel
Dr. Rao brings over 20 years of experience advising clients on the development, monetization, and enforcement of global intellectual property portfolios, with a focus on patent prosecution, licensing, and strategic transactions. He also provides counsel on capital markets transactions, including IPOs on NASDAQ, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. His industry expertise spans life sciences, electronics, consumer goods, and financial services, serving clients worldwide. With a business-driven approach, Dr. Rao helps companies integrate IP strategies with corporate growth objectives, offering pragmatic solutions to complex legal and financial challenges.
Counsel
Xiao specializes in franchise, dealership, and business law, providing strategic counsel to franchisees, dealers, and business clients on contractual, regulatory, and business planning matters. She is highly experienced in franchise and dealership litigation, handling high-stakes disputes, mediations, and arbitration proceedings. Xiao also focuses on international business transactions and cross-border dispute resolution, particularly assisting Chinese companies expanding into North America. Known for her pragmatic, business-driven approach, she helps clients navigate complex legal challenges while aligning strategies with their long-term business goals.
Counsel
Ran is a dual-licensed attorney in the United States (New York and California) and Canada (Ontario and British Columbia), specializing in commercial, financial, and intellectual property disputes. With extensive litigation experience in both jurisdictions, he represents clients in matters involving financial fraud, securities, shareholder disputes, and patent and trademark issues. Ran also provides strategic consulting to venture capital firms and startups, particularly in the biotechnology and healthcare industries. With a multidisciplinary background in law and science, he offers clients innovative, globally informed legal and business strategies.
Patent Agent
Brian is a Registered Patent Agent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and brings over 20 years of experience as an electrical engineer. As an inventor with 12 patents across the U.S., China, and Japan, he possesses both the technical expertise to grasp complex innovations and the legal acumen to help clients strengthen their intellectual property portfolios.
Brian assists clients with drafting and filing utility and design patents, prosecuting patent applications, conducting novelty searches, and providing portfolio analysis and litigation support. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Counsel
Charles S. Ho is a seasoned patent attorney with over two decades of experience specializing in patent prosecution, IP licensing, infringement risk assessment, and strategic portfolio management. He has advised international and domestic corporations on IP commercialization and litigation strategies, with a career spanning top law firms in the U.S. and Hong Kong. A former Patent Law Lecturer at the University of Warwick, Charles is recognized as an IAM Worldwide Top Patent Practitioner. With a background in mechanical engineering and fluency in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, he provides comprehensive IP counsel to a global clientele.
Counsel
Janet specializes in cross-border transactions, securitization, M&A, trusts, and non-performing assets, providing strategic legal counsel to major financial institutions and corporations. She has served as the supervising attorney for over 60 asset-backed securitization (ABS) projects, advising on real property mortgage loans, non-performing loans, auto loans, and finance leases. Certified as a Legal Professional in Finance, Securities, and Insurance, Janet brings deep expertise in structured finance and regulatory compliance. With a legal education from Tongji University and the University of Minnesota, she offers clients seamless support in complex financial transactions across multiple jurisdictions.