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About
Provided by Hitomi Iwase
Practice Areas
IP Transactions, IP Litigation, Trademark/Design Prosecution, Anti-Counterfeiting/Brand Management, Trade Secrets/Unfair Competition, Personal Data & Privacy/Big Data Businesses, IT/Cloud, Telecommunication & Media, Broadcasting, Internet/Cyber Law, Entertainment, Medical Field/Healthcare, Healthcare IT/Medical Cloud.
Career
Partner, Nishimura & Asahi; SAH & Co., Tokyo (1997-2000); Lecturer, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Law, Business Law Department (2018).
Professional Memberships
Admitted: Japan, 1997; New York, 2004.
Publications
Japan: Overview of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (European Data Protection Law Review Volume 5, 2019).
Personal
Graduate of Waseda University (LL.B., 1994) and Stanford Law School (LLM, 2003).
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Hitomi Iwase advises on a wide range of TMT-related transactions including data protection and data privacy mandates.
Hitomi Iwase co-heads the intellectual property division at Nishimura & Asahi and also handles the full range of IP matters, including trade marks, copyright and patents. Her practice covers both contentious and transactional IP matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Hitomi Iwase has provided very nice client service and showed forward-looking commercial awareness in our case."
"She has knowledge of the industry, so I can get advice not only from a legal point of view, but also from a business perspective."
"Hitomi is very impressive and intelligent and speaks very good English."
"Hitomi Iwase's legal advice is very sophisticated, always thoughtful and tailored to our business."
"Hitomi Iwase has provided very nice client service and showed forward-looking commercial awareness in our case."
"She has knowledge of the industry, so I can get advice not only from a legal point of view, but also from a business perspective."
"Hitomi is very impressive and intelligent and speaks very good English."
"Hitomi Iwase's legal advice is very sophisticated, always thoughtful and tailored to our business."
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