Stuart Beraha is a partner in the Corporate Department of Latham & Watkins’ Tokyo office and a member of the Data & Technology Transactions Practice.
Mr. Beraha has broad experience in technology, content, branding, and other intellectual property development, licensing, and partnering transactions.
Mr. Beraha’s work includes:
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Structuring and negotiating joint venture and strategic alliance transactions and related agreements
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Technology, software, and content licenses and assignments
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E-commerce, search, and other Internet-related transactions
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Development, joint development, consulting, and outsourcing agreements
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Patent assignments and licenses
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Trademark licenses and related branding agreements
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The intellectual property components of merger and acquisition transactions
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Other transactions relating to the transfer of technology and other types of intellectual property
Mr. Beraha is admitted to the New York bar and registered in Japan as a Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi (Registered Foreign Lawyer, New York Law). Prior to joining Latham, he was a partner at a leading international law firm in Tokyo.
Recognition Highlights
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Recognized as the only Japan-based lawyer in the Asia's Top 15 TMT Lawyers ranking by Asian Legal Business 2022
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Recommended in Intellectual Property Law in The Best Lawyers in Japan 2021
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Recommended as a leading practitioner in Data – Information Technology in Who’s Who Legal 2020
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Recommended in Intellectual Asset Management’s IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners in the transactions category for 2012–2020
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Ranked as a leading individual in TMT in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020
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Ranked as a leading individual in Intellectual Property in Chambers Global 2020 and Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020
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Selected as an IP Star for the 2017–2020 editions of Managing Intellectual Property’s World IP Survey
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Selected as the exclusive winner by the Client Choice Awards 2017 for the IT & Internet category for Japan
Mr. Beraha’s transactional experience includes representing:
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Z Holdings, the holding company of Yahoo Japan, in its US$30 billion business integration with LINE – the largest Japan tech deal announced in 2019, and winner of the ALB Japan Law Awards’ M&A Deal of the Year and TMT Deal of the Year, and ALB Korea Law Awards’ M&A Deal of the Year
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Kioxia in its joint venture agreements with Western Digital for the production of NAND flash memory products
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Toshiba in the IP and commercial aspects of the US$18 billion sale of its wholly owned subsidiary Toshiba Memory Corporation to a consortium led by Bain Capital*
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in the commercial and licensing aspects of its Global Open Network (GO-NET) joint venture with Akamai Technologies for the development and operation of a new blockchain-based online payment network*
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TDK in the IP aspects of its RF filter and module joint venture with Qualcomm*
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Hitachi in the IP and commercial aspects of the sale of its global hard disk drive business to Western Digital*
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Otsuka in its development and commercialization agreement with ReCor Medical*
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Fujitsu in its global strategic alliance with Oracle America (formerly Sun Microsystems), in which the two companies combined their world-wide UNIX server businesses*
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Toshiba in its semiconductor patent license with Micron and its flash memory alliance with M-Systems (including as to R&D agreements, semiconductor manufacture and supply agreements, and patent and technology license agreements)*
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SoftBank in Alibaba’s restructuring of its holdings in Alipay*
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Yahoo Japan in its sponsored and algorithmic search transactions with Google, previously sponsored search transactions with Overture, including the acquisition of Overture KK, and a series of other search-related and commercial transactions*
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Sega in its first two licenses of massively multiplayer online games for the Chinese market*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham