Chié Nakahara

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration, Civil Litigation, International Litigation, Dispute Related to Trade Secrets, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Career

Chié specializes in international arbitration and litigation. Chié has extensive experience handling disputes related to M&A, distributorship, licensing, franchising, and the termination of such continuous contracts, construction, product liability, corporate governance, intellectual property, finance and other commercial matters. She has acted in a large number of complex and high-profile litigation and arbitration cases.

Chié serves on the panel of arbitrators for KCAB International, SIAC, and is a registered arbitrator for JCAA and the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Arbitration Center.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in Japan (2005)

Admitted in New York (2013)

Work Highlights

Chié employed her extensive experience as lead counsel in one of the largest arbitrations ever seated in Japan; the amount in dispute was approx. USD 7.3 billion (completed in 2020).

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Japan

New York

Languages Spoken

English, Japanese

Experience

• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)

• 2023 - Japan Delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR

• 2022 - Regional Vice Chair for Asia Pacific of the Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practice Group of Lex Mundi

• 2022 - Member of the Appointment Committee of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

• 2022 - Editor of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Journal

• 2022 - Director of the Japan Arbitrators’ Association

• 2021 - Member of the International Arbitration Promotion Committee of the Japan Federation of Bar Association

• 2021 - Member of the Arbitration Promotion Committee of the Japan International Dispute Resolution Center

• 2021 - Director of the Japan Stanford Association

• 2020 - Panel of International Arbitrators, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board International (KCAB International)

• 2020 - Ambassador for the International Bar Association’s Asia Pacific Arbitration Group

• 2019 - Panel of Arbitrators, Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA)

• 2019 - Panel of Mediators, Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA)

• 2019 - Member of the International Exchanges and Networking Committee of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations

• 2018 - Panel of Specialist Mediators, Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC)

• 2017 - Panel of Arbitrators, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)

• 2016 - Registered arbitrator, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Arbitration Center

• 2016 - Member of the Establishment/Steering Committee for the Japan International Mediation Center in Kyoto

• 2016 - Member of ArbitralWomen

• 2012 - Chair of the Japan Alumni Chapter of Stanford Law School

Education

Awards