Antitrust and competition: Independent local firms

TMI Associates

Client Satisfaction

TMI Associates is commended for its ability to provide on cases involving cartel investigations, cross-border matters, merger notifications, and joint ventures. The team of 'thoughtful, good communicators' is jointly headed from Tokyo by Harumichi Uchida, Yohsuke Higuchi, Koichiro Hanamoto, Yukio Kaiju, Daigo Fujii, and Kentaro Toda, who collectively have broad in advising on dealings with the Japan Fair Trade Commission, M&A transactions, and cartels. Recent work has seen the team advise in an international arbitration case involving EU competition law, in addition to the submission of notifications to domestic and foreign competition authorities.

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Testimonials

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‘They are very knowledgeable of clients and their business, not only from legal perspective but in a business sense, and provide very client-oriented advice and other legal services.’
‘The team has sufficient capabilities to work on anti-trust practice issues working with overseas lawyers as needed. ’
‘The team can handle difficult issues and will try to figure out the best outcome.’
‘The team is very well-versed in international competition disputes in which Japanese companies must cope with the antitrust laws of other jurisdictions or in which non-Japanese companies must cope with the competition laws of Japan. TMI are excellent partners for such matters.’
‘The TMI team are thoughtful, good communicators and very client friendly. They are knowledgeable about competition law and sophisticated about Japanese business practices. It is a pleasure to work with them.’

Key clients

Keihin Corporation
DENSO Corporation

Work highlights

Advised Denka and SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited on forming a joint venture for acetylene black.
Represented Ricoh Company, Ltd. in the lawsuit for infringement of patent and design rights against refills of toner cartridges.
Advised Murata in relation to competition law issues in relation to forming a joint venture with their competitors.