Aya Kobori is a member of White & Case's Global Competition and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups. She concentrates on complex and multi-district commercial litigation, antitrust law, and corporate internal investigations and securities litigation.

Representative cases include the following:

• Representation of a Japanese client before the US Department of Justice and other foreign competition authorities in multiple investigations for possible anticompetitive behavior as well as the multi-district class and opt-out litigations in federal court related to the investigations;
• Representation of a Japanese national identified by the US Department of Justice for possible prosecution for anticompetitive behavior;
• Represented TNK-BP Holding, Russia's third-largest oil company, successfully obtaining dismissal of claims under the RICO Act in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit;
• Represented a major food service provider in federal class action RICO and breach of contract litigation;
• Represented Deutsche Bank in class action, securities and bankruptcy litigation relating to the collapse of Enron;
• Represented J.P. Morgan Chase in class actions related to a predecessor bank's alleged connections to African slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War;
• Represented foreign bank defendants in class actions related to injuries sustained by Gulf War Veterans from chemical weapons exposure.

Ms. Kobori also has experience counseling U.S. and foreign multinational corporations in matters involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), including internal investigations of potential violations of the FCPA, FCPA compliance programs and risk audits and assessments.

Ms. Kobori's pro bono practice mainly involves matters in the immigration law area, representing asylum applicants and children under the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

Bars and Courts
US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2008
US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2004
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2004
New York State Bar, 2003

Education
LLM, International and Comparative Law, Duke University School of Law, 2002
JD, Duke University School of Law, 2002
MPA, Public Administration, Cornell University, 1999
BA, Government and East Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1998

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association
New York State Bar Association

Languages
Japanese
English

Citizenship
Japan