Chie Yakura Named One of the Top 15 IP Lawyers in Asia by Asian Legal Business

Chie Yakura has been named by Asia Legal Business (ALB) on its list of Asia’s Top 15 IP Lawyers. ALB highlights the leading IP practitioners across Asia who have “demonstrated themselves as reliable solution providers to their clients, formidable competitors to their peers, and creative pioneers to their followers.”

Chie Yakura is a partner in the Litigation Department of Morrison Foerster Law Offices. She represents both non-Japanese and Japanese corporations in a wide range of complex litigation matters with an emphasis on intellectual property, technology transactions and trade secrets, antitrust/competition law, as well as cross-border contractual and commercial disputes and product liability matters. Chie also focuses on anti-corruption and compliance matters and handles internal investigations as well as regulatory investigations. She has handled cases in a variety of industries, including software, hardware, consumer electronics, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, transportation, real estate, and manufacturing.

One of the most highly respected practitioners in the market, this recognition is one of several that Chie has recently received, including being listed in the Top 100 Women in Litigation and being named a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2023, being named a Leading Individual in Japan for Intellectual Property by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific in 2023, and being ranked for Dispute Resolution by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024 and Chambers Global 2023. Chie was also previously named one of Asia’s Top 15 Litigators by ALB.

View the full list of ALB’s IP Lawyers in Asia.