Andreas Popper

Andreas has studied laws and business management at the University “Pontificia de Salamanca” in Spain and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. He have earned his master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Transnational Law at the “Temple University” in Tokyo. After his time as assessor at the Higher Regional Court Munich, he was assistant to Prof. Dr. Kigawa in Tokyo, and started his career at firms in Germany, Spain, the UK and Belgium working mainly on legal risk assessment, EU foreign trade, anti-dumping and regulatory matters. Since 1994, he developed deep passion for East Asia, spent an increasing amount of time in Japan, and in 2003, he became a counselor for East-West relations at the Miyazaki (South Japan) local government. Subsequently, he worked in Tokyo at the law department of Sonderhoff & Einsel Law and Patent Office, and as CEO of the Japanese representations of the global branding specialist IQS Avantiq AG, and the coordinator of PCT national stage applications, Inovia Holdings Pty Ltd. In 2007, he founded the naexasCompass Group, to engage in the intersection between intellectual property law, product compliance, foreign trade and import duty policies to support the strategic planning and implementation of global branding and market entry projects of medium and large size enterprises. By today, his firm has offices in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, the USA, and the EU. In 2016 his firm went online with an in-house developed system to facilitate the coordination of global projects, which is today used by over 800 companies worldwide. His clientele comprises Accolade Wines, Audi, Asea, Astellas, Asahi, Bandai, Benesse, Bayer, Daiichi Sankyo, Doterra, Estée Lauder, Fancl, GlaxoSmithKline, KAO, Kemin, Mars, Metro, Mary Kay, Merck, Mitsubishi, Shiseido, Takeda, Telefunken, etc.. He is invited as expert speaker to conferences, seminars and round tables of organizations such as the (INTA) International Trademark Association, the (PTMG) Pharmaceutical Trademark Group and the (IBA) International Bar Association.