Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Mergers and Acquisitions, Crisis Management and Investigation, Compliance, International Trade

Partner

Hideaki Roy Umetsu is a managing partner of the New York office of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Japanese law firm.  He focuses on cross-border M&A transactions or other commercial transactions, global compliance (including anti-corruption), business and human rights as well as international trades (export/import controls and economic sanctions).  He was admitted to the Bar in 2004 in Japan and to the New York Bar in 2010.  Umetsu was educated at the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2003) and the University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., 2009).  From 2006 to 2007, he worked as an associate director at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, where he was in charge of M&A-related laws and regulations with a particular focus on management buy-outs.  He also worked as a foreign temporary associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell from 2009 to 2010.  He served as a lecturer at Seikei University Faculty of Law from 2011 to 2015, and he has been serving as a member of Working Group on Bribery of Foreign Public Officials of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry since 2022 as well as a member of the Expert Committee on Security Clearance Systems in the Economic Safety Field of the Cabinet Secretariat since 2023.  He is an active member at the International Bar Association, where he served as a Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Forum from 2021 to 2022 and he is currently serving as a vice chair of the Future of Legal Services Commission.

Japanese/English

Daini-Tokyo Bar Association

The University of Tokyo (LLB 2003); The University of Chicago (LLM 2009)