JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Miki Goto, Ryo Murakami and Akihito Ishii, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is a full-service law firm formed by the winning combination of three leading law firms in Japan: Anderson Mori, one of the largest international firms in Ja - pan which was best known for serving overseas companies doing business in Japan since the early 1950s; Tomotsune & Kimura, particularly well known for its expertise in international fi - nance transactions; and Bingham Sakai Mimu - ra Aizawa, a premier international insolvency/ restructuring and crisis-management firm. This
combined firm provides an extraordinarily pow - erful value proposition. Housing all of these syn - ergistic practices under one roof, and further increasing its resource scale, it has the capa - bility to: (i) serve a multinational client base, (ii) on in-bound, out-bound and domestic projects, (iii) by providing expert, timely and cost-efficient advice, (iv) across a full range of legal issues, and (v) in the largest, most complex, cross-sec - tor transactions.
Authors
Miki Goto is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, with an exceptional background as a Japanese lawyer and an academic background in both science and engineering, as well
Ryo Murakami is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, advising on IP and technical laws, and has assisted clients in numerous cross-border IP litigation and patent invalidation proceedings. Akihito Ishii is a special counsel at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, advising on IP and technical laws, and has assisted clients in numerous cross-border IP litigation and patent invalidation proceedings.
as professional experience working in the IP department of a major electronics company. His practice covers a wide range of complex IP and technology-related matters, including disputes concerning trade secrets and patents. He also has broad experience in various regulatory matters as well as product liability issues involving chemical substances, pharmaceutical products and other industrial products. Since 2017, he has been serving as the vice chair of the Standing Committee on Trade Secrets of AIPPI.
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