Hidero Niioka is a German and US Attorney at Law (N.Y.). He was educated at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he gained his law degree 1996.

He advises international clients in all aspects of IP law in the fields of healthcare, pharma & biotech and other technologies. In particular, he advises strategies for IP commercialization assertion/enablement of IPs, creation of IP asset funds, securitization & other debt financing methods, modeling of valuation tactics for shopping deals and investment purposes with venture capitalists and private equity companies.

After his specialization in tax law and having passed the "Certified Specialist in Tax Law", he began with his doctoral thesis Clinical Trials in Patent Law – A Comparative Study of Effective Patent Term Extension and Supplementary Protection Certificate, Protection of Test Data and Experimental Use Exemption in Europe, Japan and U.S. in 1999 as a fellow and research assistant of Prof. Josef Straus at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Unfair Competition Law.

Hidero Niioka speaks German, English, French, Spanish and Japanese