Representative Partner. Corporate/M&A; banking & finance; labour & employment law; dispute resolution & litigation.

Representative Partner at Chuo Sogo Law Office P.C.; former vice-president at Osaka Bar Association (2015 - 2016); worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago (2005 - 2006); Adjunct Professor at Kyoto University Law School (2008 - 2012); Outside Director at three listed companies (Nakayama Steel Works; Arakawa Chemical Industries; Asaka Industrial)

Admitted in Japan (1994); New York (2006)

Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago,Illinois), LL.M 2005; Kyoto University, Faculty of Law LL.B 1992.