Pieter de Ganon

Pieter is a counsel in Freshfields’ international arbitration group, based in Silicon Valley and Tokyo. He has over a decade of experience representing multinational corporations and sovereign states in complex international arbitrations, cross-border litigation, and internal investigations.

Pieter’s practice focuses on intellectual property and technology disputes at the cutting edge of innovation. He has acted as counsel in matters spanning a wide range of technical fields — including artificial intelligence, biologics, agricultural biotechnology, next-generation energy storage, advanced materials, and semiconductor fabrication — in proceedings before arbitral tribunals, US federal and state courts, and the International Trade Commission. Pieter’s experience includes representing Toshiba in a series of ICC arbitrations arising from the landmark US$18 billion divestiture of its memory chip business, acting for the claimant in a groundbreaking dispute over antibody drug conjugate technology, and defending a leading AI company against copyright infringement claims related to model training. He has also advised the Republic of Türkiye and the Republic of Bulgaria in ICSID arbitrations involving energy-sector investments, and has handled commercial arbitrations under the AAA, ICC, ICDR, JAMS, JCAA, and SCC rules.

Pieter clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for the Honorable Leonard B. Sand, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He has taught IP law at Hitotsubashi University’s Graduate School of Law in...