JAPAN Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Norihiro Sekiguchi, Daisuke Mure, Yuki Kuroda and Ryosuke Sogo Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners is a full-service law firm with over 160 attorneys and its main offices are in Tokyo and Osaka. It was originally estab - lished in Osaka in 1981 but now has an equiv - alent-sized operation in Tokyo. It was the first Japanese law firm to open an office in China, and together with its Nagoya office, currently has of - fices in four locations. Its legal practice covers a broad range of fields, including corporate/M&A,
risk management and compliance, IP law, life sciences, restructuring/insolvency, competi - tion and antitrust/consumer protection, dispute resolution, finance and insurance, employment law, administration/regulatory law and tax law. It also provides an international practice, a Chi - na/Asian practice, a private practice and a pro bono practice.
Authors
Norihiro Sekiguchi is a partner at Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners, with broad experience in M&A. He has handled cross-border M&A representing non- Japanese acquirers in various
Daisuke Mure is a partner in charge of labour and employment law at Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners. His clients are
involved in various areas including pharmaceuticals, telecoms, electronics, trading, transportation, airlines, energy, real estate, food and entertainment, educational enterprises and medicine. His clients include Japanese subsidiaries of global enterprises. He was admitted to practise law in Japan and joined Oh-Ebashi in 2000. He graduated from the University of Tokyo (LLB) in 1998 and received his LLM degree at the University of Michigan Law School in 2007. In 2008, he was admitted to practice law in the state of New York.
jurisdictions and has been involved in numerous private equity transactions, including the Toshiba Memory acquisition. He served as one of the examiners of the Japanese National Bar Examinations. He graduated from Waseda University (LLB) in 1994 and received an LLM degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2003. He is admitted to the Bars in Japan and the State of New York. He was a partner at Baker & McKenzie in Tokyo from 2006 to 2014 and then joined Oh-Ebashi.
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