8 ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS – OCTOBER 2023 WWW.LEGALBUSINESSONLINE.COM BRI EFS APPOINTMENTS GO FUJIMOTO LEAVING Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners JOINING Atsumi & Sakai PRACTICE Corporate LOCATION Tokyo PAUL HASWELL LEAVING Seyfarth Shaw JOINING K&L Gates PRACTICE TMT LOCATION Hong Kong KENTA NOBE LEAVING Baker McKenzie JOINING Atsumi & Sakai PRACTICE Corporate LOCATION Tokyo ALISON LEE LEAVING Debevoise & Plimpton JOINING Mayer Brown PRACTICE M&A LOCATION Hong Kong LONG GIA NGUYEN LEAVING Baker McKenzie JOINING Tilleke & Gibbins PRACTICE Real Estate LOCATION Ho Chi Minh City YOUNG SUK PARK LEAVING KL Partners JOINING Shin & Kim PRACTICE Dispute Resolution LOCATION Seoul ANTHONY PATTEN LEAVING King & Spalding JOINING Herbert Smith Freehills PRACTICE Project Finance LOCATION Singapore USHAN PREMARATNE LEAVING Withers KhattarWong JOINING Meritus Law PRACTICE Dispute Resolution LOCATION Singapore FRANS SIHASALE LEAVING Widyawan & Partners JOINING TnP Law Firm PRACTICE M&A, Banking & Finance LOCATION Jakarta U.S. IP BOUTIQUE OPENS IN TOKYO WITH MWE PARTNER HIRE U.S. intellectual property boutique Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone (GWBS) has established an office in Tokyo and hired patent litigator Maxwell Fox from McDermott Will & Emery to lead it. For GWBS, which was set up barely nine months ago, the Tokyo outpost becomes the third office, and its first outside the U.S. In a statement, it said the new office would support Japanese and East Asian clients in industries including life sciences/ bio-pharma, electronics, automotive, chemicals, telecom and consumer products on IP disputes in the U.S. “We are excited to expand our global footprint and establish a presence in Japan. We have been committed to this critical market,” said partner Nicholas Groombridge in the statement. “We will grow and deepen our relationships with world-leading science and technology companies based in Japan and Asia.” Fox has spent the last 17 years in Tokyo and is authorised as a gaikokuho jimu bengoshi (licensed foreign lawyer). He advises on patent cases and represents clients before U.S. District Courts, the International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court. Fox’s patent expertise spans telecommunications and network security, chemical compounds and manufacturing processes, imaging solutions, digital displays, medical devices and pharmaceutical innovations. GWBS was founded last November by four patent litigators who had previously worked together at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, namely Groombridge, Jennifer H. Wu, J. Steven Baughman and Eric Alan Stone. The firm now has 25 lawyers in the U.S., including seven partners.
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