Shohta is the Senior Director Assistant General Counsel at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., a leading biopharmaceutical company based in New York where he advises the company on a broad range of complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes.  While Shohta deals with all matters relating to disputes, he focuses mostly on non-US IP matters and helps the company navigate through increasingly complex IP landscape.  Shohta joined Regeneron in October 2018 from a leading IP litigation practice based in the UK.  Shohta is also a trained scientist – he obtained a PhD in Virology as well as an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Shohta is currently on the Pharma Committee of the AIPPI and on the Life Sciences Committee on the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. Shohta is a winner of the Managing Intellectual Property Rising Star Awards EMEA 2021 in the Life Sciences category.