Nishimura & Asahi

International dispute resolution practice

Partner, Tokyo

Hiroyuki heads the international dispute resolution practice of Nishimura & Asahi. He specializes in international commercial litigation, arbitration, and mediation. He has represented many international clients, including multi-national manufacturers, banking and securities firms, insurance companies, and news media in disputes involving M&A, antitrust laws, corporate governance, insurance laws, intellectual property, defamation, joint ventures, licensing, construction, and other commercial matters, as well as international bankruptcy. He has been involved in a number of international arbitrations as counsel, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator (including chair) before the ICC, JCAA, AAA-ICDR, VIAC, KCAB, and SIAC.

Hiroyuki serves as Vice President of the Japan Association of Arbitrators and as Chief Director of the Japan International Mediation Center in Kyoto, was Vice Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA Legal Practice Division, and was Co-Chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee at the IPBA from 2016 to 2020. From 2013 to 2016, he taught international arbitration and international dispute resolution at the University of Tokyo, School of Law as a visiting professor. Since 2013, he has been a member of the SIAC’s Court of Arbitration. He is also a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, and since 2018, he has been a Council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.

Japanese, English

1993 | Admitted in New York 1986 | Admitted in Japan

2023- | Chief Director, Japan International Mediation Center in Kyoto (JIMC-Kyoto) 2021- | Vice President, Japan Association of Arbitrators (JAA) 2020- | Member, Task Force on “ADR and Arbitration” of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) 2018- | Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law 2016- | Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) 2013- | Member, SIAC Court of Arbitration, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) 2013-2016 | Visiting Professor (International Commercial Arbitration), University of Tokyo, School of Law

1992 | Harvard Law School (LL.M.) 1984 | The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)