Matthew Berger is a partner in the firm's Tokyo office where he maintains an intellectual property and corporate transactional practice, with a focus on technology, life sciences, and entertainment companies and issues. Mr. Berger is experienced in negotiating and drafting agreements for the development, licensing, manufacturing and supply, sale, and other commercialization of semiconductors and other hardware, software, biotechnology and medical devices, and multimedia and entertainment products and content. He has negotiated agreements for the protection and transfer of copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and other intellectual property, and has litigated copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, royalty, and domain name disputes. In addition, Mr. Berger represents emerging technology companies and ventures in entity formation, structuring and negotiating angel and venture financing, and structuring various types of strategic and other alliances. He also represents established technology, life sciences, media, and entertainment companies and institutions in technology and content transfers, financings, and corporate structuring.

Mr. Berger received his B.A. degree, magna cum laude , in 1987 from Cornell University, and his J.D. in 1992 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Revie w. He authored “Implementing a United Nations Security Council Resolution: The President’s Power to Use Force Without the Authorization of Congress,” 15 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 83 (1991); and “The Limited Liability Company: Developments, Characteristics, and Prospects,” Public Law Research Institute for the California State Legislature (January 1992).