Covington & Burling Grabs Japan Expert from Pillsbury

Law360 covered Tai Kimoto's Covington arrival, who has joined Covington as a partner in its Corporate Practice Group. According to Tai, "Covington's Japanese practice already has a strong track record, representing many blue chip companies. That made [Covington] attractive to me as well as their strong technology industry practice and life science industry practice. The collaborative nature of the firm was also quite attractive to me."

Regarding his reasons for remaining in the U.S. despite his work for Japanese clients, Tai states, "I really loved the life in L.A.," Kimoto said. "I thought this might be a good opportunity for me to help Japanese companies from outside of Japan. I realized it might be better to be outside of Japan for advising Japanese companies on U.S. laws."