Specialisation:
Main field of practice is industrial property law. Advising and representation of clients in patent litigation and in the fields of licensing, competition law, distribution law, general contract law, commercial and corporate law. Special expertise in counselling Japanese enterprises on German and European law and European enterprises on Japanese law.
Publications:
Consumer Protection and Freedom of Contract in Japanese Law (Tübingen 2006 – in German); The Reform of Japanese Corporate Law 2005/2006 (J.Japan.L. No. 20/2005 – in German); The Protection of Consumers against Unfair Solicitation of Commodities Futures Contracts in Japan and Germany (Kokusai Shōji Hōmu 2002/2003 – in Japanese); The Japanese Recycling Law (J.Japan.L. No. 14/2005, co-author with T. Ichinose – in German); further publications on German and Japanese law.
Professional Memberships:
German-Japanese Lawyers Association
Career:
Study of law and Japanese studies in Marburg, Freiburg and Hirosaki (Japan) from 1993 to 2000; scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Japanese government from 1995 to 1996; First Juridical State Examination in Freiburg (2000). Two-year Master’s program in law at the Tōhoku University in Sendai (Japan) from 2000 to 2002, as a scholar of the DAAD and the Japanese Government. Research assistant in the department of Japanese law at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and International Private Law as well as legal traineeship in Hamburg and Tokyo from 2002 to 2005. Second Juridical State Examination in January 2006. Awarded a juridical doctorate (Dr. jur.) by the Albert-Ludwigs-University (Freiburg University) in 2005.
Attorney-at-law since 2006. With Hoffmann∙Eitle since 2006.
Personal:
Leisure interests include Aikidō, hiking, Japanese movies, European and Japanese history.
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