Mr. Hayakawa is an of counsel in the Technology Transactions Group of Morrison & Foerster’s Tokyo Office. His practice is concentrated on transactions and counseling involving intellectual property, including structuring and negotiating license agreements, technology transfers, adversarial patent litigation settlements, outsourcing arrangements, joint development agreements and other intellectual property matters relevant to technology companies. He advises clients, both emerging and established companies, from a range of industries. For example, Mr. Hayakawa has counseled financial institutions, companies in the medical device and biotechnology fields, semiconductor technology companies such as DSP Group and Ceva, and multinational technology conglomerates such as Hitachi and Fujitsu. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, having worked on major transactions in the United States, Asia, and Europe, and he is fluent in Japanese.

Mr. Hayakawa has provided legal services on a pro bono basis to a number of non-profit organizations such as The Yale Law Journal, Lutheran Social Services of Northern California, and HAND (Helping After Neonatal Death). Mr. Hayakawa also serves on the Alumni Advisory Board of The Yale Law Journal.

Mr. Hayakawa received his A.B. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with highest honors. He earned his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School, where he served as an articles editor of the Yale Journal of International Law and later as managing editor of The Yale Law Journal. Mr. Hayakawa is admitted to practice in the state of California.