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Managing Partner of Tokyo Office at Chuo Sogo Law Office; Tokyo International School, Board Member (2017-); Globalaw, Board Member (2013-); AEON REIT Investment Corporation, Supervisory Officer (2012-); Disciplinary Enforcement Committee of Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association, Member (2012-); practiced at Dickinson Wright Law Office in Michigan (1990).
Kenichi Fujinawa Joined Nagashima & Ohno in 1980 and is currently Partner at the firm. He became a Partner of Nagashima & Ohno in 1988 and became Managing Partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu in 2004. Fujinawa trained at Shearman & Sterling, New York (1986-87) and received his LLB from University of Tokyo in 1978 and LLM from Harvard Law School in 1986. Kenichi Fujinawa is affiliated with the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association. He focuses and specializes in Mergers and Acquisitio...
Kentaro Hirayama’s practice focuses on competition law. He has counselled clients in a number of domestic and international cartels; unfair trade practices such as MFN clauses, predatory pricing and abuse of standard essential patents; and merger filings including high-profile phase II cases. His skill and experience in competition and antitrust law is widely recognised, and in 2016 he was the only Japanese attorney named in Global Competition Review’s “40 Under 40” li...
Kenji Hirooka has particular experience in cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, and corporate finance transactions. He supports clients for the success of clients’ businesses from various aspects including setting up a business, risk management, or resolving disputes. He also has experience in the areas of FinTech, and financial regulations and fund regulatory matters.
Mori Inada focuses his real estate practice on financing, transactions, fund formation, and joint ventures, with particular emphasis on inbound transactions of investment banks and real estate funds. With more than fifteen years’ experience in real estate practice, Mori has structured, documented, and implemented a number of real estate transactions for various types of the properties, including, among others, development and acquisition of warehouses, data centers and health care prope...
Partner at Chuo Sogo Law Office; secondment at Supervisory Coordination Division, Supervisory Bureau, Financial Services Agency, Japan as a fixed-term government official (Jan. 2014 to Dec. 2015); registered as Foreign Lawyer in Singapore (Nov. 2012 to Oct. 2013); foreign Lawyer at Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore (Nov. 2012 to Oct. 2013); visiting attorney at Barack Ferrazano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, Chicago/USA (Aug. 2012 to Sep. 2012).
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