Lawyers and advisers in Japan
The Corporate INTL directory lists 36 experts in Japan from 27 firms.
The most represented practice areas in Japan are Corporate, Commercial & M&A (8), Intellectual Property (8) and Banking & Finance (6). Use the filters below to narrow by specialism or practice area, or search by name or firm.
Experts
Masahiro Samejima
Masahiro has experienced the combined areas of technology, business, and law. He founded Uchida & Samejima Law Firm in 2004, which is dedicated to business-legal matters, including Intellectual Property and M&A issues. He currently focuses…
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Masataka Hayakawa
Masataka Hayakawa has been a partner at Atsumi & Sakai since 2015. He concentrates on corporate regulatory compliance and investigations, corporate risk and crisis management, corporate governance and white-collar criminal defense, data…
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Masatake Ide
Masatake Ide is a Japanese Patent Attorney admitted in 1984 and is the founder of the firm M. IDE & Co. located in Tokyo, Japan in 1995, specialising in counsel and representation in the procurement of patents, trademarks and other IP…
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Masato Shibata
Masato Shibata is attorney-at-law and a partner of Legal Profession Corporation CAST. He is admitted in Japan and New York. He graduated from Tokyo University and has a LL.M degree from New York University. He is a STEP member of the Hong…
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Michiya Iwasaki
Education: The University of Tokyo (B.A., 1994) Bar Admissions: Japan (Daini Tokyo Bar Association) Career: Kusunoki & Iwasaki (Tokyo) (December 2012-current); Atsumi & Sakai (Tokyo) (November 2007-December 2012, January 2010-as partner);…
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Mr. Hiroo Atsumi
Hiroo Atsumi is the founding partner of Atsumi & Sakai, a multi-award-winning full service independent Tokyo law firm. He has extensive experience in banking, capital markets and structured/asset finance, and has represented most major…
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Noriko Higashizawa
Noriko Higashizawa has over 30 years of extensive experience representing global companies on labour and employment matters including dispute resolution such as litigation and arbitration. She has led various labour disputes to successful…
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Osamu Yamamoto
Osamu Yamamoto is a patent attorney, a partner of YUASA and HARA and is the acting chief of the firm’s chemical section. The firm was established by Judge Toyotaro Yuasa in 1902. After undergoing several name changes, it was named YUASA…
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Ryoichi Kaneko
Ryoichi Kaneko has extensive experience in M&A, Private Equity, Emerging Growth/Venture Capital, and Competition law. Ryoichi’s professional experience includes stints with the Corporate, M&A and Competition law departments at Slaughter…
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Seiichi Yoshikawa
Mr. Seiichi Yoshikawa is a partner at Koga & Partners based in Tokyo. Throughout his career of more than forty years, he has been heavily involved in cases for international dispute resolution, i.e. litigations, arbitrations and…
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Shigeki Tatsuno
Shigeki Tatsuno is an M&A/Corporate partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and is well-known as having a thorough knowledge in mergers and acquisitions of listed and unlisted businesses (including, share acquisitions and divestments and…
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Shinichiro Abe
Shinichiro Abe is one of Japan’s leading specialists in Japanese and international corporate restructuring and insolvency law. He is highly respected as an advisor for transactions (including M&A) and structures requiring insolvency…
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