Global Dispute Resolution Practice for Japanese Clients
When the stakes are highest, leading Japanese multinational corporations consistently turn to Paul Hastings to help them protect their business assets.
Our litigation and arbitration practitioners have substantial experience guiding Japanese clients to landmark victories — including more than a dozen first-of-their-kind or precedent-setting cases. Our global dispute resolution team has native fluency in Japanese language, culture and law, which allows us to work directly with our Japanese clients as one team in Japanese and English, providing seamless and high-quality representation. Members of our team include Sachiko Taniguchi, a Japanese-born litigator raised in Japan, qualified in both Japan and the United States, trained in the United States and based in New York.
- Ranked across Litigation and Arbitration categories as Band 1, Elite and Highly Regarded.
Chambers U.S.
- Named one of the “Best” and “Most Feared in Litigation.”
BTI Consulting Group
A Japanese component manufacturer in a DOJ criminal investigation for price fixing. Continue to represent the client [PH1.1]in defending related civil follow-on antitrust litigation in U.S. federal court involving a direct purchaser, two putative classes and an opt-out plaintiff. Successfully convinced the District Court to reconsider ruling for partial summary judgment related to the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act (FTAIA), resulting in a new order eliminating nearly all of a direct purchaser’s alleged antitrust damages.
Mitsubishi Tanabe in obtaining a complete victory in a $2+ billion ICC arbitration against Novartis Pharma AG. The tribunal denied all of Novartis’s claims and awarded our client more than $22 million in fees and costs. This licensing dispute involved critical systemic global issues of first impression regarding royalties, patent rights, know-how and public policy issues with respect to IP and competition law of the United States, the European Union and Japan. The seat of the arbitration was London and the law governing the applicable contract was Japanese law.