If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well

Our proven track record has enabled us to retain valued client relationships with Japanese organisations.  That is why we have a specialist group to deal specifically with Japanese clients. 

The firm’s work with Japanese clients is co-ordinated by a dedicated group of partners. They are the primary points of contact responsible for putting together teams of lawyers to meet the demands of specific clients and projects.  

• David Marks (Competition)
• Chris Southorn (Corporate)
• Nick Beckett (Intellectual Property & Technology)

• a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company in an international dispute with a leading UK pharmaceutical company relating to the world-market withdrawal of a product 
• on the disposal of debt and equity investment in a UK electronics company by Japanese investors
• a Japanese pharmaceutical company on the reorganisation of its European operations
• numerous Japanese corporations on the establishment of UK operations

• Japanese insurance companies and their manufacturing company insureds on the co-ordination of the defence of product liability claims throughout Europe, Russia and South Africa
• a number of Japanese pharmaceutical companies on EU pharmaceutical regulatory law and strategy, as well as the setting up of offices in the UK
• a major Japanese company in a patent action in the High Court in London in 1999