NEWS

Karasawa Akira resumed his work at Iwata Godo upon completion of his study in the U.S.

Iwata Godo has joined TerraLex, a worldwide network of quality law firms.

• Global Practice

We welcomed a new foreign attorney, Sander Cohen.

Uenishi Takuya's commentary co-authored with Mr. Thomas G. Allen of Greenberg Traurig, LLP titled "Amendments to Japan's Foreign Lawyers Act Clarify and Broaden the Scope of Party Representation by Foreign Counsel in International Arbitration" which appears on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.

• Crisis Management
• Global Practice

Uenishi Takuya resumed his work at Iwata Godo upon completion of his service at a law firm in the U.S.

We welcomed a new attorney, Fukuchi Takumi.

Matsuda Akira's comment is introduced in Global Data Review.

Matsuda Akira's comment regarding 2020 Amendment of the Personal Information Protection Act appeared in the article titled "Japan's privacy amendments finalised" (dated June 17, 2020) at Global Data Review.

• Global Practice
• Intellectual Property

Noguchi Motoo's interview article titled "Japanese government should show its determination" appeared in The Japan News dated May 20, 2020.Yomiuri Shimbun dated April 30, 2020.

• Crisis Management

We welcomed a new attorney, Ishikawa Hiroaki.

Noguchi Motoo's interview article titled "Japanese government should show its determination" appeared in the article titled "Special Topics: Requests to Stay Home, Japanese Government's Measures for COVID-19''' on Page 9 of the morning edition of The Yomiuri Shimbun dated April 30, 2020.

• Crisis Management

We welcomed a new special counsel , Noguchi Motoo , and a new counsel , Karashima Satoshi. We welcomed a new attorney, Ishikawa Teppei.

Matsuda Akira's comment is introduced in Global Data Review.

Matsuda Akira's comment regarding 2020 Amendment of the Personal Information Protection Act appeared in the article titled "Japan tightens data protection rules" (dated March 16, 2020) at Global Data Review.

• Global Practice
• Intellectual Property

Iwata Godo relocated our office to the 15th floor of Marunouchi Building in January 2020.

Toji Yoshihiro was appointed Representative Partner, and Tago Shinya was appointed Managing Partner in January 2020.

Kakuno Shu, Uenishi Takuya, Kudo Ryohei and Beppu Fumiya were appointed Partners.

We welcomed a new special counsel, Nakano Masayuki, the former Director-General of Labor Standards Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

We welcomed new attorneys, Noguchi Daisuke, Ito Natsuho and Anzai Kazuto.