About Madoka Shimada

Madoka Shimada is a partner at Nishimura & Asahi. She advises clients on various matters of competition law, and is especially active in cross-border cases. She also advises in the area of unfair competition prevention, particularly on trade secret misappropriation cases, including the investigation thereof and large cross-border litigation. Madoka graduated from the University of Tokyo (LLB) in 1997 and earned an LLM from Harvard Law School and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in 2003. She has been admitted as an attorney in Japan since 1999 and in New York since 2005.