JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Hiroki Wakabayashi, Kenichi Sadaka and Kei Akagawa, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is a full-service law firm formed by the winning combination of three leading law firms in Japan: Anderson Mori, known for serving overseas companies doing business in Japan since the early 1950s; Tomotsune & Kimura, particularly well known for its expertise in international finance trans- actions; and Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa, a premier international insolvency/restructuring and crisis management firm. Anderson Mori &
Tomotsune has a long tradition of serving the international business and legal communities and is one of the largest law firms in Japan. The firm’s expertise enables the delivery of compre- hensive advice on virtually all legal issues that may arise from a corporate transaction. The majority of the firm’s lawyers are bilingual and experienced in communicating, drafting and negotiating around the globe.
Authors
Hiroki Wakabayashi is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Kenichi Sadaka is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune engaged mainly in international and domestic litigation, commercial arbitration and other dispute resolution procedures.
with substantial expertise in dispute resolution, both in cross-border and domestic cases. In the course of his legal career, Hiroki has spent six years as a civil district court judge (1996–2002) and more than 20 years as a private practitioner. Employing his extensive legal experience, Hiroki has skilfully represented Japanese and non- Japanese financial institutions, audit corporations and business corporations in a wide array of corporate-based disputes, including transaction disputes, commercial disputes, professional liability disputes, and labour relations disputes. Furthermore, Hiroki also has experience practising in the areas of inheritance and domestic relations. He is widely published.
Kenichi has represented many Japanese and foreign companies in Japan in dispute matters concerning product liability, insurance, franchising, financial products, real estate, construction, labour, debt collection, inheritance, mortgage enforcement, defamation, professional malpractice, termination of distributorship agreements, international trade (LC and BL-related matters), administrative remedies, etc. Kenichi also has experience in overseas litigation, and has provided assistance in discovery procedures in Japan and in relation to companies in Japan. He is widely published.
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