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IPO of CF PharmTech

IPO of CF PharmTech

Successful IPO for CF PharmTech

karo IP supports IPO with IP expertise

On October 8, 2025, one of our clients, the pharmaceutical company CF PharmTech (headquartered in Suzhou, China), successfully completed its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE).

Our client is a fully integrated pharmaceutical company focused on the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of drugs and devices for the treatment of respiratory diseases. The company’s core product is Budesonide Suspension (CF017), a drug for the treatment of asthma and COPD that is included in China’s volume-based procurement program. In addition, the company has other products and a pipeline of innovative therapies, including RNAi therapies and small molecule drugs.

The IPO was heavily oversubscribed and the share price rose significantly on the first day of trading, reflecting strong investor interest in the company’s focus on the treatment of respiratory diseases and its path to profitability.

We are very pleased to have been asked to support our client’s IPO with various searches, valuations and opinions on patents, utility models and trademarks in the European territories, thus contributing to the successful IPO of CF PharmTech and its further successful path on the European market.

We continue to develop and move, together with our team, to the city center of Düsseldorf on 1st July, 2024

We are thus creating the conditions for networked and modern work on IP strategy, IP rights, dispute avoidance and litigation. Our new head office at Steinstraße 16-18 is located in the immediate vicinity of our friends, colleagues and experts in patent and trademark law and thus in the IP center of the city and NRW.

For you as our clients there will be no changes. Because it is self-evident that we continue to stick to those principles that you have valued for many years when working with us: reliability, plain text, and creativity.

We continue to remain an IP-Boutique for prosecution and litigation, which develops customized protective concepts for your intellectual property, accomplishes the necessary tasks for securing IP protection reliably and efficiently, and finds the best solution for special problems as well.

We are certain that we can offer our services in the future with even more transparency, open-mindedness and joy in our common work with patents, utility models, trademarks and designs.

From now on you and our co-workers will be able to get to us by public transportation more conveniently. Our contribution to modern office creations.

We, the team of karo IP, look forward to moving on together with you.

Please feel free to talk to us if you have questions, or visit us in our new office on Steinstrasse.

The Legal 500 Deutschland 2024

[February 2024] karo IP is again recommended in the recently published Legal 500 Deutschland patent law ranking.

Legal 500 writes: “Karo IP zeichnet sich neben der umfangreichen Betreuung deutscher und europäischer Mandanten durch einen ausgewiesenen geographischen Fokus auf Japan und China aus. Die Mandatsarbeit in den Bereichen Maschinenbau sowie Automobil- und Fahrzeugtechnik gehört dabei zu den Beratungsschwerpunkten von Matthias Rößler […] sowohl in der Verwaltung von Portfolios als auch der Durchsetzung und Verteidigung von Schutzrechten aktiv sind.”

Mandanten sagen: ‘Zuverlässige und schnelle Bearbeitung der Themen. Sehr gut strukturierte Kanzlei.’ | ‘karo IP besitzt als Patentanwaltskanzlei sowohl eine sehr hohe technologische als auch juristische und wirtschaftliche Kompetenz.’

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Börsengang von CF PharmTech
IPO of CF PharmTech
We continue to develop and move, together with our team, to the city center of Düsseldorf on 1st July, 2024
The Legal 500 Deutschland 2024
IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2024
JUVE Patent: Germany 2023
WirtschaftsWoche Top Kanzleien 2023
Who’s Who Legal: IP 2023
IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2023
Best Lawyers | Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2023
Financial Times: Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2023
Leaders League: Intellectual property | Patent prosecution: Germany 2023
Managing IP: IP Stars 2023
The Legal 500 Deutschland 2023
WirtschaftsWoche Top Kanzleien 2022
Lexology Client Choice Award 2022
WWL National Guides: Germany 2022
JUVE Patent Ranking Germany 2022
IAM Strategy 300 2022
IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2022
Leaders League: Intellectual property | Patent prosecution: Germany 2022
Who’s Who Legal 2022
Financial Times: Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022
Best Lawyers 2023 / Handelsblatt Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2022
Managing IP: IP Stars 2022
WirtschaftsWoche Top Kanzleien: Patentrecht
IAM Global Leaders 2022
Client Choice Award 2021
JUVE Patent Ranking Germany 2021
IAM Strategy 300 2021
Leaders League: Intellectual property | Patent prosecution: Germany 2021
Who’s Who Legal 2021
Best Lawyers 2022 / Handelsblatt Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2021
JUVE Patent: Patent Filing – Germany 2020
IAM Global Leaders 2021
IAM Patent 1000 (2020)
Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2020 (Handelsblatt) / Best Lawyers 2021
IAM Strategy 300 2020
Global Law Experts: Firm of the Year 2020
CorpINTL 2020 Firm of the Year