Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Antitrust/Competition Practice Group

Yoshitoshi Imoto is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He advises on all aspects of competition law for both domestic and multi-national clients in connection with M&A, strategic alliance projects, IT/digital antitrust matters as well as cartel investigations and follow-on private lawsuits.

He has abundant experiences and expertise in handling high-profile and complex mergers particularly in pharmaceutical industry, automobiles and electronics sectors. His recent professional highlights also include counseling for both domestic and international clients in relation to antitrust investigations on unilateral conduct.  He successfully represented a third party claimant that suffered from the industry leader's exclusionary conduct that resulted in the authority's formal investigation.

Keio Law School, Lecturer (2006), Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu NY LLP, New York (2008-2010 inclusive of its predecessor firm), Slaughter and May, Brussels (Competition Group, 2012-2013)

Japanese and English

Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association (2002)

The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2001), Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2008)