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Dio Inoue

Partner

Main Practices
Product Quality and Inspection Fraud / General Corporate Legal Affairs / Establishing Companies and Businesses for Startups / Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, and Medical Devices / Health Foods and Supplements / Digital Health / Biotechnology / Medical Institutions / Medical IP and Licensing / Intellectual Property Protection and Disputes / Intellectual Property Transactions / Unfair Competition and Protection of Business Data / Open Innovation and Startups / Data Utilization
Languages
Japanese / English
Office
Tokyo
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Overview

Publications & Seminars

Awards

Admitted

Japan (2010)

Bar Association

Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Education

Keio University (B.S., 1995)
Keio University, Graduate School of Science and Technology (M.S., 1997)
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Social Sciences (S.J.D., 2007)
The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan

Background

Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, Tokyo (April 1997- September 2000)
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Bank (Tokyo) (October 2000-March 2004)
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (January 2011-September 2018)
Sidley Austin Nishikawa Foreign Law Joint Enterprise (October 2018-June 2020)
Guardant Health Asia Middle East & Africa, Inc. (July 2020-June 2022)
Guardant Health Japan Corp. (July 2022-June 2024)

Publications

  • “Japan: Law and Practice,” Chambers Global Practice Guides - Healthcare: Medical Devices 2025, Chambers and Partners (2025)  [Co-author]

Web Articles

Seminars

  • “Lawyers Cutting Through: How to Create a Venture Company,” at the PARKS Mentoring Event, hosted by Platform for All Regions of Kyushu & Okinawa for Startup-ecosystem (PARKS), March 21, 2025
  • “Learning from VC, Lawyer, and Pharmaceutical Company’s Perspectives - Things that Must be Done to Commercialize Your Product,” at the PARKS Bio Mentoring Classroom event, hosted by All Regions of Kyushu & Okinawa for Startup-ecosystem (PARKS), March 21, 2025
  • “[Seminar for Life Science Companies] How to Transfer Business? - Things an M&A Project Manager in a Life Science Company Should Know,” hosted by Atsumi & Sakai, March 17,2025
  • “Recent Trends in Licensing Activities,” at the Licensing Executives Society Japan's Healthcare Working Group Lecture, hosted by Licensing Executives Society International Japan, March 12, 2025