Morgan Lewis Expands in Japan with Addition of 16-Person Team from Bingham McCutchen
December 22 2014 - 7:29PM
Business Wire
Morgan Lewis has enhanced its practice in Japan with the
addition of a 16-person team, including five partners, from Bingham
McCutchen. The new team comprised of 10 lawyers and six staff
significantly strengthens Morgan Lewis’s cross-border asset
management, IP, financial services, and M&A practices in Japan.
Together with the firm’s long-standing joint enterprise with TMI
Associates, Morgan Lewis and its 29 lawyers and staff resident in
Tokyo provide deep and broad capabilities for both in-bound and
out-bound legal services in Japan.
The partners joining from Bingham with their teams are
international investment management and financial regulatory
lawyers Christopher P. Wells and Tomoko Fuminaga; corporate
transactional lawyers Lisa Valentovish and Tsugumichi Watanabe; and
intellectual property lawyer Chris Mizumoto.
“We are thrilled to gain such a talented group of lawyers from
Bingham. With nearly 30 resident lawyers and staff in Tokyo,
complemented by many U.S. based partners with highly active Japan
practices and our existing, strong TMI relationship, we are able to
offer our clients global access to broad capabilities across a
comprehensive spectrum of services that touch on virtually every
aspect of corporate, financial, asset management, intellectual
property, and litigation support operations,” said Morgan Lewis
Chair Jami McKeon.
The new lawyers in Japan are part of the more than 200 partners
and nearly 600 other lawyers, legal professionals, and staff from
Bingham McCutchen who joined Morgan Lewis on November 24.
About Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Founded in 1873, Morgan Lewis offers more than 2,000 lawyers,
patent agents, benefits advisers, regulatory scientists, and other
specialists—in 28 offices across the United States, Europe, Asia,
and the Middle East. The firm provides comprehensive litigation,
corporate, transactional, regulatory, intellectual property, and
labor and employment legal services to clients of all sizes—from
globally established industry leaders to just-conceived start-ups.
For more information about Morgan Lewis or its practices, please
visit us online at www.morganlewis.com.
For Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLPElliott Frieder,
+1-212-309-6809Director, Public Relations &
Communicationsefrieder@morganlewis.com