Shinya Akiyama, a Pillsbury Corporate partner and co-leader of the firm’s Japan Practice team, has counseled Japanese companies on starting, acquiring and managing U.S. businesses, and preventing and defending lawsuits, for 28 years.

Ben Cote focuses his practice on international trade and national security matters.

Recognized by Chambers USA as a Band 1 leading aviation lawyer, Pillsbury partner Charles Donley’s wide-ranging practice encompasses aviation regulatory and commercial matters, counseling and litigation.

Jim Durling's practice covers trade remedies, World Trade Organization (WTO) litigation, and investigations by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). He brings extensive experience in representing both states and private sector clients across diverse industries.

Nancy Fischer, Pillsbury’s global head of the Regulatory practice, is consistently recognized by Chambers and other publications as a leading authority on international trade law.

Ed Flanders, managing partner of the New York Office and former head of Pillsbury’s Litigation practice in New York, represents companies in large, complex commercial litigation and arbitration matters.

Brian Paul Gearing is a first-chair litigator with deep technical insight and trial experience, delivering practical, winning strategies for technology clients in high-stakes intellectual property disputes, including patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation and counseling.

Tom Hill, a partner in Pillsbury’s Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense practice, focuses his national practice on white-collar criminal and government enforcement matters and internal corporate investigations.

Robert “Bob” Hollingshead is an accomplished litigator with a strong engineering background, whose practice focuses on patent litigation, adversarial patent license negotiations, and strategic IP counseling. His practice spans the U.S., Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region.

Aaron helps clients to engage in business, banking and trade in the world's most challenging markets and deal with the most sensitive technologies. With experience in 50 countries on 5 continents, he understands the issues of international business.

Chris Kao focuses his practice on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. Chris is Pillsbury’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice group leader and Taiwan practice co-leader.

Mark Lessard, Pillsbury’s global Finance practice leader, advises dozens of clients worldwide on high-stakes debt and equity transactions, many of which have won “Deal of the Year” awards.

David is recognized for his experience in the production, trade, shipment and use of renewable fuels, renewable natural gas, low-carbon energy and products, environmental and carbon credits, petroleum products and other energy commodities.

The Honorable Jeffrey S. Merrifield, a former presidential appointee to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is leader of Pillsbury’s Nuclear Energy Team and co-Leader of the firm’s Energy Transition practice. He is widely recognized as an international thought leader on nuclear power and the deployment of complex energy systems for the avoidance of carbon generation.

Chris Patay, co-leader of the firm’s Japan Practice Team and former leader of Pillsbury’s Corporate Group in Los Angeles, advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other significant corporate matters.

Ed Perron is Pillsbury's firm-wide managing partner.

Daniel Porter brings over 35 years of experience representing exporters and importers in trade cases, focusing on antidumping, countervailing duty and customs matters.

Deborah Ruff is Pillsbury’s International Arbitration Practice Group Leader. She has extensive experience in multi-jurisdiction disputes, with a focus on high-value and complex international arbitration in the energy, infrastructure and construction, telecommunications, aviation and financial sectors.

Katsumi Shirai represents global financial institutions and investment funds and multinational corporations from English- and German-speaking countries in downstream investments across Asia, particularly in Japan.

Andy Smith is a partner in the law firm’s Litigation practice, with a particular focus on international issues and clients.

Pillsbury Litigation partner David Stanton is renowned for his command of the latest technologies and industry best practices in the rapidly emerging fields where law and technology intersect.

Bill Sullivan concentrates on corporate internal investigations, trial practice and white-collar criminal defense, as well as complex civil litigation, securities enforcement, export control and other regulatory actions.

Reza Zarghamee advises U.S. and international clients on a vast array of environmental and sustainable finance matters, including the strategies for performing compliance audits, devising remediation strategies, responding to governmental investigations, defending against enforcement actions, chemical regulation, toxic torts litigation defense, transactional due diligence, devising remediation strategies and SEC disclosures.

Justin Bintrim leads his clients through the most important decisions that arise in the life of every successful business and investment.

Bill Bonano leads Pillsbury’s Federal Tax Controversy & Tax Policy practice. His practice focuses on international and domestic tax planning and representing taxpayers involved in federal and state controversy matters.

Jeong is a member of Pillsbury’s Corporate group in Los Angeles, where he advises public and private clients on a variety of corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments.

John Davis is a skilled and strategic litigator who owns discovery risk in matters, from inception to trial. He litigates the case and controls the data that wins it. As Head of Pillsbury’s eDiscovery Consulting practice, John advises clients on data privacy and security, electronic discovery, and information governance issues and obligations, as well as managing computer forensic and data security breach investigations.

Sheila Harvey, Pillsbury’s Energy Industry Group leader, Hydrogen and Sustainable Finance co-leader and Climate Change & Sustainability practice leader, is an accomplished adviser on climate, energy and environmental policy and regulatory issues as well as the impact of these policies and regulations on transactional and litigation matters.

Lisa Higa’s practice has been focused on corporate and securities matters for emerging growth technology companies and venture capitalists for over 20 years. She has extensive experience assisting private companies on their formation, corporate governance, private debt and equity financing transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.

Masao Kasatsugu is a counsel in Pillsbury’s Tokyo office and a member of the Project Finance and Asset Finance teams.

Roya Motazedi advises U.S. and international companies on international trade matters.

Fusae Nara, Managing partner of the Tokyo office, is one of the few Japanese-speaking litigators practicing in the U.S. She has represented multinational corporations headquartered in Japan in complex commercial disputes, class actions and international trade matters.

Edward Sauer represents airlines, companies buying and selling aircraft, online travel agents, equipment manufacturers, investors in aviation companies and airports.

Will Sjoberg represents clients in a range of trade remedy and custom matters. 

Taishu Pitt plays a key role in advising clients exposed to economic security risks, providing critical guidance at the intersection of international trade and national security.

Clarence Tolliver focuses on energy regulatory, transactional and project matters, with an emphasis on nuclear fusion, nuclear fission, hydrogen, renewable energy and aerospace and aviation industries.