Eric Tate

Eric Akira Tate co-chairs the firm’s Global Employment and Labor Group. He represents technology and other companies in bet-the-company trade secrets and employee mobility cases. Eric also represents boards of directors and companies in #MeToo and other sensitive internal investigations and disputes with executives, whistleblower, wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment, and other employment litigation.

Eric also advises companies in employment law compliance and transactional matters, including restrictive covenants and other personnel policies and procedures, and employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions throughout the United States and globally.

Eric’s recent board of directors and executive dispute matters include: defending a publicly traded UK company in the defense of a wrongful termination suit by the former CEO of its U.S. subsidiary; representing a TSX-traded Canadian company in wrongful termination and other claims alleged by two terminated C-suite executives; represented a publicly traded Japanese investment firm in separation of a C-suite executive; represented a publicly traded Japanese healthcare company in the separation of the CEO and 20+ other U.S. executives, including defense of several wrongful termination and discrimination claims; and represented a publicly traded Fortune 200 technology company in investigation of discrimination and harassment claims against a C-suite executive, who subsequently resigned without incident.