Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, and Medical Devices

Our life sciences team is headed by a partner recognized by legal commentators as a leader in the field, with extensive experience advising pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and medical devices companies. Our team advises on matters including:

Pharmaceuticals and medical devices
Cosmetics regulations
R&D and clinical trials
Advertising and labeling
Registration, licensing, and protection of intellectual property rights
Compliance audits
Compliance training
Import regulations
Sales promotions
M&A and business development
Ethics guidelines
Antitrust
Data protection, storage, transfer, and mining
Disputes including consumer and medical negligence disputes

When advising foreign clients, our firm can field a team of expert Japanese lawyers and foreign lawyers who have relevant experience and bi-cultural sensitivity. Our team can do business and draft documents in Japanese, English, German, Mandarin, Hindi, Korean, and Marathi, and provides services around the clock through our global affiliated offices.

Related Practices

Related Publications

Getting the Deal Through - Pharma & Medical Device Regulation 2024, Japan Chapter, Law Business Research Ltd. (2023) [Co-author]
Getting the Deal Through - Pharma & Medical Device Regulation 2023, Japan Chapter, Law Business Research Ltd. (2022) [Co-author]
"APPA –Authorized Public Purpose Access: Building Trust in Data Flows for Well-being and Innovation," posted on the website of The World Economic Forum LLC [Contributor]
Understanding Industry-Specific Legal Services through Q&A: Medicine and Medical Equipment, CHUOKEIZAI-SHA, INC. (2019) [Co-author]
Pricing & Reimbursement 2018, Japan Chapter, Global Legal Group (2018)
Corporate Legal Practice for Product Accidents and Corporate Scandals - Learning from Actual Cases and Preparing Security Guidelines, Civil Law Institute (edited by Ryo Yamazaki) (2015) [Co-author]

Related Seminars

“The Act on Protection of Personal Information－Topics Related to Law Amendment（Based on ‘Interim Summary’）,” hosted by International Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Privacy Consortium (IPMPC), November 12, 2019
"The Health Stack," at the INDIA STACK WORKSHOP, hosted by the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan of the World Economic Forum, February 26, 2019
"Report on the Status of Discussions between the Japan Medical Venture Association and Related Parties on Revisions of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Act," at the "Medical Devices Group Subcommittee," hosted by the Japan Medical Venture Association, August 24, 2018
Presentation entitled "Regulations relating to Personal Information Protection in Countries Outside Japan such as Asia," at the seminar entitled "EY Privacy Seminar 2018 - Protection and Use of Personal Data in Globalization and Digitalization," hosted by EY Advisory & Consulting Co., Ltd., November 27, 2018