Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners

Ayako Kanamaru is a partner of Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. Her employment practice covers all areas of employment management issues, including harassment, reorganisation, redundancies and labour disputes before the courts. She regularly represents multinational and domestic companies and provides flexible advice considering each client’s industry.

Daisuke Mure

Daisuke Mure has an expertise in complicated and wide-ranging employment laws and regulations, and provides consulting services on personnel and employment issues to client-companies in all industries and of all sizes. He has represented clients in various court proceedings such as litigation, provisional disposition proceedings and labor dispute adjudication proceedings, as well as proceedings before the Labor Relations Commission including claims seeking an order for relief.

Hajime Taniuchi

Hajime Taniuchi is a partner in the Corporate Law & M&A Practice Group and is a core member of the firm’s Asia/Emerging Countries Desk. He also belongs to the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Group and Finance Group handling various cases within such groups. Hajime has been leading numerous domestic M&A deals both for private companies and listed companies and has handled dozens of cross-border M&As representing Japanese companies in various industries. As a result of his abundant experience, Hajime counsel clients in all aspects of corporate law as well as other daily legal issues. Hajime was seconded to work in the U.S. as well as in India as visiting attorney. In the U.S., he belonged to the Antitrust Group where he supported Japanese clients facing international cartel investigations. In India, he supported Japanese clients investing in India. Through such experience, he is well acquainted in advising Japanese clients dealing international legal issues in collaboration with foreign law firms. Hajime has lived in the U.S. for more than ten years and is fluent in the English language. He is well equipped in supporting both foreign clients interested in doing business in Japan as well as Japanese clients interested in doing business overseas.

Hidehiro Utsumi

Hidehiro Utsumi has been highly acclaimed internationally, such as by being selected for many years as one of the leading lawyers in Japan in Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, The Legal 500, and Best Lawyers. Based on his legal, taxation and accounting experience, he can formulate comprehensive strategies and review structuring arrangements with the assistance of a network of offices that expands across multiple jurisdictions.

Hirohiko Ikeda

Corporate and M&A / Intellectual Property Law / International Practice / Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare / Risk Management & Compliance / Dispute Resolution

Hirotake Tanaka

Hirotake Tanaka focuses his practice on restructuring and bankruptcy. Since joining Oh-Ebashi in 2010, he has worked on a large number of bankruptcy cases, which spread across different fields including a land developer, golf course management company, medical group, public service company, transport company, food company etc. and his cases are almost all of extreme large scale involving debts of billion dollars. Furthermore, he is familiar with not only legal liquidation but also private arrangements. He has also succeeded in some complex cases such as the one transferred from civil rehabilitation proceedings to company reorganization proceedings via bankruptcy proceedings, the details of which are explained in his article “New Approach for the Use of Corporate Reorganization Proceedings”. In addition to the bankruptcy filed, he has dealt with M&A transaction cases and crisis management cases as his day-to-day legal practice. Based on his broad experiences and toughness, he has played significant roles in various cases.

Kagenori Sako

Kagenori Sako is a partner in Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. His practice areas comprise a range of antitrust / competition, dispute resolution, compliance, IP and corporate law. His antitrust / competition practice covers all areas of antitrust and competition law, including cartel defense, private antitrust litigation and merger clearance. He regularly represents clients in administrative and criminal antitrust investigations by the JFTC, and has served as lead coordinating counsel for clients under investigation in multiple jurisdictions, including the United States, the European Union, Canada, China, Korea, India, Singapore and Brazil. In addition to cartel investigation, he has handled a variety of unfair trade practices under the Japanese antitrust law including abuse of a superior bargaining position. In addition to his work in the antitrust area, Kagenori has represented clients in various commercial dispute matters, including complex commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution procedures. He also has extensive experience in conducting complex investigations in a variety of industries, and in advising corporate boards in connection with investigations.

Ko Matsui

Ko Matsui is a partner at Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners with a broad experience in handling foreign direct investments and resolving cross-border disputes.

Kosuke Yoshimura

Kosuke Yoshimura is a partner in Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. His practice areas comprise a range of antitrust / competition, dispute resolution, Risk Management & Compliance, Employment law, and Corporate & M&A.

Mizuki Kanno

Mizuki Kanno is a partner at Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. Her areas of practice include antitrust/competition, corporate and M&A, international practice, dispute resolution, personal data/AI/IT and digital, employment law, risk management and compliance, as well as the life sciences, pharmaceutical and healthcare.

Naoki Kondo

Naoki Kondo is the firm’s partner in charge of Bankruptcy and Restructuring of Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners.

Norihiro Sekiguchi

Norihiro Sekiguchi is highly active advising on cross-border and domestic matters. His recent experience includes acting on joint ventures, share sales and acquisitions across a wide variety of sectors. A market source reports: "He has a lot of deal experience and his advice is always on point."

Ryotaro Yamamoto

Ryotaro Yamamoto is a partner at Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. He has a wide range of experience in HR matters, advising both domestic and international clients as well as dispute cases, including domestic litigation and international arbitration.

Seigo Takehira

Seigo Takehira is a leading partner in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Practice Group of the firm. He has done prior work in the investment banking industry, and since 2015, has served as an examiner for the Bar and Preliminary Bar Examinations on Corporate Law. His practice areas include corporate governance, domestic and cross-border M&A, commercial transactions, and domestic/international dispute resolutions, covering a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, energy, manufacturing, transportation, retail, real estate and financial institutions.

Shigetoshi Hirano

Mr. Shigetoshi Hirano has been practicing law in a variety of fields since 1989. After he was dispatched by the firm to study in the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, he has specialized in intellectual property (IP) disputes representing Japanese and other foreign clients in Japanese courts and arbitration, as well as drafting licensing and franchising agreements. Mr. Hirano also has extensive experience in entertainment law, which is a combined field of copyright, trademark and intellectual property creation, and is derived from IP. In addition to his IP practice, Mr. Hirano has been involved in business transactions and international disputes between Japanese parties and foreign parties in the U.S., E.U, China, Korea, Middle East and many other countries. Mr. Hirano has also worked on many joint venture projects, which has helped clients expand their businesses into new territories. On several occasions, Mr. Hirano has assisted Japanese clients in the closure of their subsidiaries to restructure their chain of supply. Mr. Hirano believes lawyers should have broad experience and knowledge in order to lead their clients to fair and reasonable results, which is why he has tried to obtain a variety of experience, including learning about different cultures. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Hirano has been teaching Intellectual Property Law at Kyoto University Law School for the past 10 years and has been elected to important bar association positions, including as Vice President of the Osaka Bar Association.

Shingo Yamada

Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners handles numerous corporate criminal cases, and Shingo Yamada is the firm’s partner in charge of those Risk Management & Investigations' cases.

Shiro Kuniya

Shiro Kuniya has been highly acclaimed; Ranked among Nikkei Business Journal’s top ten most highly regarded lawyers in Japan in the areas of “Corporate and M&A” and “International Transaction and Dispute Resolution”. Listed as Leading Lawyer for M&A in IFLR 2015, for Financial & Corporate Law in IFLR 2017 (International Finance Law Review) Listed as leading individuals in “Corporate / M&A” section and “Dispute Resolution" section, Chambers Asia Pacific, Asia, Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business, (since 2009). Listed as leading individuals in “Corporate and M&A” section, the Asia Pacific Legal 500 (since 2009). Listed in Corporate and M&A, International Business Transactions, Litigation, Intellectual Property and Trade section in “Best Lawyers” (since 2008). Awarded “Project Finance of the Year 1999” (Universal Studio Japan Theme Park Project) by Euromoney.

Shunta Doki

Shunta Doki is a partner of Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners in Japan, based in Osaka and Tokyo. He has studied law in three countries, Japan, the US and the Netherlands, and has worked in four international law firms in Tokyo, Osaka, New York and Amsterdam. He is familiar with US and European law as well as Japanese law. His main areas of practice are M&A, corporate litigation, environmental regulation and ESG matters. He works across a wide range of industries, but has a particular strength in renewable energy. He has written extensively and commented widely in the media on sustainability issues. He is a member of the Japan Association for Environmental Law and Policy and the Asian Society of International Law.

So Miyamoto

Corporate and M&A / Competition and Antitrust / Consumer Protection / Bankruptcy and Restructuring

Takamitsu Shigetomi

Takamitsu Shigetomi is a partner who is in charge of Intellectual Property Practice Department in the Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners.

Takashi Ishii

Takashi Ishii is a partner in Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. His practice areas comprise a range of antitrust / competition, dispute resolution, Risk Management & Compliance, IP and corporate law.

Takashi Hirose

Takashi Hirose is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. Mr. Hirose has drafted and advised on intellectual property licensing, joint development agreements and other business contracts including international transactions. Mr. Hirose has also dealt with intellectual property related litigations in several fields including pharmaceuticals, mechanical engineering and consumer products.　In addition, Mr. Hirose has also dealt with forensic investigations and many complex litigations including high profile product liability cases and corporate litigations. Mr. Hirose teaches a business law course as a part-time lecturer of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Takashi Matsunaga

Takashi Koyama

Intellectual Property Law / Corporate and M&A / Dispute Resolution / Personal Data, AI, IT and Digital / International Practice / Risk Management & Compliance / Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare / Sustainability and ESG

Takayuki Maruyama

Takayuki Maruyama is a partner in Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. His practice areas comprise a range of Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Corporate & M&A, and International Practice.

Takuro Yamaguchi

Takuyuki Sakurai

Takuyuki Sakurai is a partner in Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. His practice areas comprise of Investment Fund, Financial Regulation, Banking, Derivatives, and Corporate & M&A. He is a standout practitioner in the team, with experience across fund management, private equity, venture capital, and financial regulation work, as well as cross-border investment fund transactions. Among its client base are prominent private equity/venture capital funds and other alternative investment managers.

Teppei Mogi

Teppei Mogi is the firm’s partner in charge of international business law and international dispute resolution. He has been providing legal advice on various distribution agreements, licensing agreements, joint venture agreements, M&A agreements, infrastructure project agreements and other agreements relating to international transactions for the nearly 30 years. He has represented both Japanese and foreign clients, among others, in the areas of construction, plant engineering, energy, pharmaceuticals and machinery. His work has recently been focused on the resolution of international business disputes, including arbitration and mediation. He has represeted clients in a number of international arbitration cases (including JCAA, ICC, AAA, SIAC and LCIA cases). He is also active as arbitrators. He is listed in JCAA and SHIAC.

Tetsuya Nagasawa

Tetsuya Nagasawa has been highly acclaimed for his work by Who's Who Legal and recongnized as a "Band 1" lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide. Nagasawa is also included in the GCR 100 by Global Competition Review. April 2023 - Managing Partner, Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners

Tomohiro Kitano

Tomohiro Kitano is the firm’s partner in charge of Bankruptcy and Restructuring of Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners.

Tomohiro Murakami

Tomohiro Murakami is a partner who is in charge of both Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy in the Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners.

Toshiya Furusho

Toshiya Furusho is a partner of Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. His practice focuses on intellectual property licensing and litigation as well as counseling on intellectual property matters, and covers all areas of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition.

Yuichi Oda

Yuichi Oda is a partner in the Competition and Antitrust/Consumer Protection practice of Oh-Ebashi's Tokyo office group. Mr. Oda provides counsel in all areas of competition law, such as government investigations, follow-on litigations, and mergers and acquisitions. He has substantial experience defending clients in cartel cases, including investigations by the JFTC and follow-on administrative/private litigations, abuse of bargaining power cases launched by the JFTC. He also has experience coordinating cartel matters and mergers and acquisitions in multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., the European Union, Canada, Brazil, and Korea.

Yuriko Asada

Corporate and M&A / Employment Law / Finance and Insurance / International Practice / Risk Management & Compliance

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