Partner

Shunji Matsuda

Admitted to bar	1998, Japan
Languages	Japanese and English
Contact	Contact this Lawyer
Practice Areas	IP Transactions, Media, Entertainment and Sport, IP Disputes, IT and Telecommunications, General Corporate

Biography

Shunji Matsuda is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. His practice focuses on the areas of intellectual property law and entertainment law. He is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group.

He graduated with an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo in 1996 and with an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2002. He was admitted to practice law in Japan in 1998 and worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York as a foreign attorney from 2002 to 2003. Since 2007, he has been teaching "Sports & Entertainment Law" as an adjunct lecturer at Sophia Law School.

Education/Professional Experience

1996	The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
1998-	Nagashima & Ohno (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu)
2002	New York University School of Law (LL.M.)
2002-2003	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
2006-present	Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
2007-present	Adjunct Lecturer, Sophia Law School

Seminars

October 30, 2018

NO&T Seminars

ADVANCE Corporate Law Seminar - Pioneering the Frontier in Corporate Law
2018 Part 7 Intellectual Property Law Seminar "Intellectual Property Law Revision for the Age of AI/IoT"

April 26, 2016

NO&T Seminars

ADVANCE Corporate Law Seminar - Pioneering the Frontier in Corporate Law
2016 Part 2 IP Seminar
"Latest Intellectual Property Issues (NO&T IP Forum 2016)"

Publications

April, 2014

Books

"Practice of Legal Due Diligence Making an M&A Deal Successful, 3rd Edition"

Chuokeizai-Sha, Inc.

February, 2004

Articles

How to Protect licensees when licensors go under

Managing Intellectual Property, Issue 137 Japan Special Focus 2004

Topics

February 18, 2021	Awards	NO&T recognized by Chambers Global 2021
January 13, 2021	Awards	NO&T receives high evaluation in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021
December 15, 2020	Awards	NO&T recognized by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021
February 14, 2020	Awards	NO&T recognized by Chambers Global 2020
January 17, 2020	Awards	NO&T receives high evaluation in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020
December 5, 2019	Awards	NO&T recognized by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020
April 4, 2019	Awards	High evaluation received in the 2020 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan"
February 15, 2019	Awards	NO&T recognized by Chambers Global 2019
November 30, 2018	Awards	NO&T recognized by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2019
June 29, 2018	Awards	NO&T receives high evaluation in IAM Patent 1000 – the World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2018

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