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Gen Takahashi
Gen Takahashi
Gen Takahashi is a corporate partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, one of the largest law firms in Japan. 2022 is Anderson Mori & Tomotsune’s 70th anniversary since James Buell Anderson established the firm that would become the…
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Hidenori Nakagawa
The team of lawyers and specialists at TMI Associates has advised many foreign clients investing into real estate in Japan. The firm’s representations include setting up new TMK and silent partnerships, negotiations with counterparts, or…
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Hiroto Ando
Since joining Anderson Mori & Tomotsune in 2002, Hiroto Ando has been engaged in a broad range of corporate matters, including capital markets projects, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. He focuses in particular on…
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Hiroyuki Tanaka
Hiroyuki Tanaka is a partner of the firm, admitted to practice in Japan and New York. Hiroyuki’s practice areas are data protection, IT and IP. He has extensive experience advising foreign clients on Japanese data protection law. He is…
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Isao Shindo
Isao Shindo is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, who has been involved principally in the fields of banking, securities transactions, asset management, insurance, trust and structured finance, as well as M&A projects involving…
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J. Ryan Dwyer, III
Resident in Tokyo since 1999, Ryan Dwyer concentrates his practice on cross-border M&A and foreign direct investment into Japan by US and other non-Japanese companies, international joint ventures involving Japanese parties and Japan…
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K. Richard Okamoto
Richard graduated UCLA in 1985 and then worked in the Los Angeles and Tokyo offices until 1992 A US CPA from California and is also a Certified Internal Auditor, he provided an expert opinion on the difference between US and Japanese GAAP…
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Kanna Ichikawa
Academic Background: Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies, Division of Integrated Life Science, Laboratory of Signal Transduction Ichikawa Kanna’s main field of expertise is biotechnology and biology, but she is also capable of…
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Kazuhiro Yoshii
Kazuhiro Yoshii has been engaged in an extensive range of corporate legal practice at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, especially in the fields of capital markets and investment funds, for more than 20 years. In the capital markets area, he has…
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Kensaku Yamamoto
Kensaku Yamamoto is the Managing Partner of SHUSAKU·YAMAMOTO, one of the largest and most highly regarded intellectual property, technology and commercial law firms in Japan. The firm maintains offices in Osaka, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Fukushima,…
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Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a founder, president and CEO of Cyclo Hygieia, Inc. Before founding Cyclo Hygieia in 2019, he ran the IP advisory group at Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC. Mr Kobayashi has broad experience in the…
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