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.

 

 

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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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

 

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Hisashi Miyatsuka

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Chie Kasahara

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Takafumi Ochiai

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Saori Hanada

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Yukiko Mitsuhashi

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Harukuni Ito

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Miki Ono

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Chie Shinsha

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Kento Hirai

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