Masafumi Shikakura is a counsel and leads Clifford Chance’s antitrust practice in Tokyo. He specialises in antitrust law and foreign investment regulations and advises domestic and international companies on Japanese anti-monopoly law as well as Japanese regulations on foreign direct investments and sanctions. He handles multi-jurisdictional merger filing analyses and foreign direct investment filing analyses and coordination with local counsel in various jurisdictions for many transactions.

Masafumi has also gained extensive experience in M&A transactions, in particular cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures. He has advised clients in power and energy, technology, healthcare and various industrial sectors.

Kyoto University (LLB) 2004 Kyoto University Law School (JD) 2006 Admitted as a bengoshi in Japan 2007 Joined Clifford Chance, Tokyo 2008 Secondment to a major Japanese securities company 2009-2010 University of Warwick (LLM) 2012 King's College London (Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law) 2013 Clifford Chance, Brussels 2012 Counsel since 2018