Nishimura & Asahi

Corporate Crisis Management Practice

Partner, Tokyo

Founder of the Corporate Crisis Management Practices. He has many years of experience in advising on major corporate scandal cases that have been widely reported in the press, and serving as a member of third-party committees and investigation committees. He has been the recipient of many awards.

Mr. Kimeda’s main areas of practice are Corporate Crisis Management and Litigation. As for Corporate Crisis Management, he has extensive experience in corporate scandal cases, including window-dressing, misrepresentation of financial statements, insider trading, antitrust (bid rigging, price cartels, and abuse of dominant position), product defects, misleading representations of products, divulging confidential information, bribery, political funding, money laundering, breach of industrial regulations, and factory accidents. In these types of cases he has specific expertise on the issues of internal investigations, third party committee investigations, defending against criminal and administrative investigations, public relations, rebuilding compliance systems, reforming corporate governance, and handling the related civil litigation. He also serves as an outside whistleblower hotline channel for a number of companies. As for litigation, he has considerable experience in tax disputes, shareholders disputes, and other types of corporate litigation. He is the author of numerous legal articles and has also been involved in the process of making laws and regulations. He has been recognized as one of the “Most successful lawyers” by the NIKKEI for the last several years as below.

2023 Corporate Crisis Management category 1st 2021 Corporate Crisis Management category 1st 2020 Corporate Crisis Management category 1st 2018 Corporate Crisis Management category 2nd 2014 Corporate Crisis Management category 2nd 2011 Corporate Crisis Management category 3rd 2022 Corporate Legal Affairs category 9th 2016 Corporate Legal Affairs category 10th 2015 Corporate Legal Affairs category 8th 2013 Corporate Legal Affairs category 2nd 2012 Corporate Legal Affairs category 4th

Japanese, English

2002 | Admitted in Japan

1991 | The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)