Lani Victoria Q. Vinas
Legal Director & Foreign Attorney | Osaka, Japan
Lani Victoria VINAS is the Legal Director of SHUSAKU·YAMAMOTO Law Firm, where she manages a team of more than 100 legal professionals, associates and technology specialists.
From February 2023 to September 2024, she joined the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative headquartered in Manila as a Data Privacy Expert serving as the institution’s legal consultant and specialist.
She serves as Co-President of the Women in Law Japan Ippan Shadan Hojin, a voluntary association of legal professionals having over 600 supporters. WILJ ISH aims to raise the representation of women in leadership roles in the legal profession in Japan. She is also currently an adjunct professor at Hitotsubashi University, Global Business Law Program teaching Intellectual Property Commercialization, as well as a senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines, College of Law for Torts and Damages.
Practice Areas
Transactions and Advisory, IP clearance and analysis services, IP portfolio management, Health Regulatory, General Corporate Governance and Compliance, Licensing, Antitrust, Due Diligence, Ownership and Recordals, Procurement, Practice and Technology Management, Assignments, Ownership, Startups and Ventures, General Corporate Governance, Compliance, Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Project Finance, Franchise and Distribution, Procurement, Cross border Corporate Insolvency, Corporate Restructuring and International Commercial Transactions and Litigation
Awards
- Finalist, Young Lawyer of the Year Japan Law Awards: Asia Legal Business (Japan)
- Finalist, Woman Lawyer of the Year Japan Law Awards: Asia Legal Business (Japan)
- Awardee, Leon SA Aureus Award for Legal Service, (Philippines)
- Best License Negotiator, WIPO Academy and Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Singapore)
Publications
- Co-Author, “Patent License Agreements” Japan Chapter, Global Practical Law, Practice Notes published by Thomson Reuters (online publication, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Confidentiality Clauses” Japan Chapter, Global Practical Law, Practice Notes published by Thomson Reuters (online publication, 2023)
- Co-Author, “Scope of Patent Protection” Japan Chapter, Global Practical Law, Practice Notes published by Thomson Reuters (online publication, 2022)
- Co-Author, “Employment Confidentiality” Japan Chapter, Global Practical Law, Practice Notes published by Thomson Reuters (online publication, 2022)
- Co-Author, “Drug and Medical Device Litigation”, (Japan Chapter), 3rd Edition, International Comparative Legal Guide, published by Global Legal Group Ltd., ISBN: 9781839181825 (London, 2022)
- Co-Author, “Patent Enforcement in the UK and Trans-Pacific Countries”, Japan Chapter, published by Globe Law and Business, ISBN: 9781787424746 (London, 2021)
- Co-Author, “Pharmaceutical Trademarks”, Japan Chapter, Lexology Getting the Deal Through, published by Law Business Research (London, 2021)
- Co-Author, “International Comparative Legal Guide to Technology Sourcing”, Japan Chapter, 1st Edition, published by Global Legal Group Ltd., ISBN: 9781839181313 (London, 2021)
- Co-Author, “Snapshot: the essentials of pharmaceutical trademarks in Japan”, published online by World Trademark Review and Lexology Getting the Deal Through, (online publication, 2020)
- Co-Author, “International Comparative Legal Guide to Outsourcing” Japan Chapter, 5th Edition, published by Global Legal Group Ltd. (London, 2020)
- Co-Author, “Japan Q&A on Employment Confidentiality”, Global Practical Law, Practice Notes, published online by Thomson Reuters (online publication, 2020)
- Acknowledged Contributor, “Hatch-Waxman Act Decisions on the Manufacture of Generic Drugs by the Pharmaceutical Industries”, published by Hōritsu jihō (Japan’s Legal Times) (Japan, 2017)
Admissions
- Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of England and Wales (2018)
- Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Supreme Court of the State of New York (2016)
- Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Supreme Court of the Philippines (2012)
Education
- WIPO Academy in collaboration with Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (2013, Singapore)
- Osaka Institute of Technology (2012, Japan) – Advanced Program on Comparative Patent Laws
- University of the Philippines Diliman (2011, Philippines) – Juris Doctor
- Ateneo de Manila University (2004, Philippines) – BA Political Science
Language
English