Scott Warren, a licensed US attorney, began his legal career as a litigation attorney in California, moving to Japan in 1993. He spent 13 years as in-house counsel in Japan, serving as the first foreign general counsel for Sega Enterprises, and then as senior corporate attorney for Microsoft, getting Xbox launched in Asia.  In those capacities, he also handled IP licensing, transactional agreements, anti-counterfeiting and anti-cybercrime efforts, employment matters and internal investigations.  He was the Asia regional managing director of legal technologies for a large risk consultancy and technology company. He now oversees Epiq Systems, a world leader in legal technologies, providing eDiscovery and document review services in Japan, working with corporations, and the law firms that support them, on issues where the Law and Technology collide. 

 

Reinhard Schu, Vice President, General Counsel, is managing legal, commercial, regulatory and government relations matters for KVH. From 2008 to 2012, Reinhard served in a number of legal roles at Colt Technology Services Group, London, including most recently as Corporate Legal Director with overall responsibility for M&A, standard terms of business and corporate policies. Prior to Colt, Reinhard spent 12 years in private practice advising clients in the Telecommunications and IT sector, last serving in the Technology Transaction Group at Morrison & Foerster LLP in London and Tokyo. Reinhard holds a law degree from Universität des Saarlandes, Germany and a Master of International Business Law from Queen Mary College, London. He is qualified as a lawyer in Germany and England.

John has been the general counsel of for Veolia Environment's operations in Japan (Veolia is the world's largest water and environmental service company - VE is the stock listing) since 2011 and is currently working on various water and renewables projects, PPI and O&M projects throughout the Japanese archipelago and occasionally industrial waste water projects in elsewhere in  Asia for Japanese clients.  He works with a team of four, handling the Japanese related matters as well as reporting to the head office in Paris. Recently, he has been handling more renewable energy projects on the Japanese feed-in-tariff as well as industrial waste projects.  Prior to joining Veoila, John was with Shearman & Sterling in New York's Project Development & Finance team handling project finance transactions representing owner/developers, contractors and non-recourse lenders. The practice consisted of negotiations in turnkey EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contracts for owner/developers for power plants (gas, HFO, coal, combined and single cycle),  upstream/midstream Oil & Gas projects,  LNG regasification terminals, biomass,  nuclear generation , industrial manufacturing, underwater power transmission cable, and five star hotels and included the representation of  JBIC (the Japanese government bank guarantying project finance loans for Japanese entities ) in Asia and Latin America, large Japanese trading houses,  and been on the opposite side of the table on IFC financed transactions in fossil fuel (Asia, Africa, Latin America ), wind and geothermal. John began his career as a finance associate at White & Case in New York City.

Takamiki Nishikawa, Senior Legal Counsel, Fox International (Japan)

Takamiki Nishikawa is the Representative Director and Vice President of Fox International Channels (Japan).  As Senior Legal Counsel he looks after Fox’s business and legal affairs in Japan and Korea.  As a member of the 21st Century Fox media group, which has been under close scrutiny from the regulatory authorities after the News of the World phone hacking scandal and which operates in many high risk areas like Africa, Latin America and Asia, FIC places high importance on compliance.  Takamiki works closely with the Chief Compliance Officer of the Fox Group on FCPA and other compliance matters. Previously Takamiki was Deputy General Counsel of Ralph Lauren Asia Pacific with responsibility over Japan and Korea. Prior to in-house counseling, Takamiki was in private practice with Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. he has also been in government employment dealing with multilateral trade at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and was involved in the ACTA negotiations and the IP chapters of various FTA agreements, as well as the NAMA negotiations. He was educated at Eton College and Tokyo University (Law).