Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

M&A, Automotive, TMT and AI/IoT

Partner

He is focused on domestic and overseas M&A transactions including going-private management buyout, carve-out by private equity funds, joint ventures, strategic alliances and complex cross-border transactions.

He has extensive knowledge in road transport regulations including automated vehicles and MaaS. During his secondment to the Road Transport Bureau of MLIT, he was in charge of amending the Road Transport Vehicle Act, which enables the safe deployment of automated vehicles in Japan. He also drafted the Ministry’s report on determining the civil liability caused by automated vehicles. He was deeply involved with type approval and recall regulations as well as investigations of inspection cheating scandals of some large car makers.

with Hengeler Mueller, Düsseldorf (2013-2014) seconded to Hitachi, Ltd. (2014-2015) with Road Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Director for Policy Planning and Coordination) (2017-2019)

English/Japanese

Daini-Tokyo Bar Association (2008)

The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2007) Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M., 2013) Kellogg School of Management (Certificate in Business Administration, 2013)