Professional Experience and Expertise

･ Specializing in multiple aspects of automotive industry, such as automotive lithium-ion battery business, drawing on the experience obtained working at Panasonic Corporation Automotive Company, providing in-depth legal advice to resolve issues base on the actual business conditions of each manufacturing company.
･ Advising and supporting M&As from prior to acquisition to PMI (post merger integration) phases; providing practical advice for each phase of M&A transactions.
･ Advising on wide range of international transactions.
･ Representing clients in litigation and dispute resolution matters.

Cases and Matters Handled

･ Was in charge of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions.
･ Represented in litigation a number of Japanese financial institutions (including banks, a credit guarantee corporation, and a credit company), manufacturing companies and real estate companies.
･ Drafting and negotiating numerous international business contracts.
･ Advising clients, such as manufacturing companies, financial institutions, real estate companies and municipal government, in a wide-range of business matters.
･ Investigating alleged fraud related to embezzlement of a listed company as a member of an investigative committee

Professional Career

Mar. 2019 to June 2021

–  Panasonic Corporation Automotive Company (on secondment from Chuo Sogo Law Office) 

Jan. 2015
– Registered with Osaka Bar Association
　(joined Chuo Sogo Law Office,P.C.)

Dec. 2014
– Completed the requisite courses at the Supreme Court’s Legal Research and Training Institute(67th class)

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