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Practice
Hiroshi is a Partner of DT Legal Japan and he specializes in commercial disputes, compliance/risk management and general corporate matters. Clients come to him because of his broad legal practice range, his reputation and track record of reducing their potential risks and delivering an outcome that the client wants. Most of Hiroshi’s practice is multi-jurisdictional, having had considerable experience working in major international law firms. From June 2022, Hiroshi also serves as General Counsel for Deloitte Tohmatsu Group LLC.
His recent experience includes:
- Compliance/Risk Management: Hiroshi is actively advising cyber incidents and data incident matters working for several clients against government agencies and/or third parties. His advice covers competition law related matters in Japan, EU and the US, both in investigations and transactional matters. Hiroshi also advises on the Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Act, the Subcontractors Act, the Act against Misleading Advertisement and various employment laws and regulations
- General Corporate: Providing legal advice regarding foreign companies’ expansion into Japanese markets and day-to-day corporate matters for both Japanese companies and Japanese subsidiaries of foreign companies
Professional Qualifications
Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association (2001)
New York State Bar (2007)
Patent Bar (2008)
Professional Experience
2001 - 2007 Eiko Sogo Law Office (Osaka)
2006 - 2007 Anderson Kill P.C. (NYC)
2007 - 2010 O’Melveny & Myers LLP
2010 - 2014 White & Case LLP
2015 - Present DT Legal Japan, Deloitte Tohmatsu Group LLC (as General Counsel)
Education
Kyoto University (LL.B., 2000)
Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 2006)
Languages
Japanese and English