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Welcome to the ALB Japan 2017 In-House Legal Summit
Date: 17 May 2017
Time: 8:30am- 5:30pm
Venue: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo | 2 Chome-2-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan
Asian Legal Business is proud to present the Japan In-House Legal Summit 2017 on 17 May 2017. This annual summit gathers legal experts, in-house compliance professionals and government leaders together to discuss pertinent issues, legal developments and enforcement trends across Japan.
Benefits of Attending
- Network with senior In-House counsels, lawyers and business leaders who are on top of their game.
- In-depth workshops focusing on the latest legal issues presented by top domestic and international law firms VIP networking luncheon and refreshments
- Speaker notes and materials provided
Topic Highlights
- Japan’s headline-making Reform and Enforcement Updates on Foreign Bribery Law
- Getting ahead on Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act – Knowing the Implementing Rules and Regulations
- Combating Legal Risks through optimal due diligence performance
- Sustaining the Japan’s Outbound M&A Momentum: Navigating Transitions and Financing Growth
- A New Stage in the Evolution of Legal Technology – Can it really inhibit security and effective legal collaboration?
- There and Back Again: The Journeys of a starting in-house counsel to managing the legal department in a Japanese Multicultural Environment.
Welcome to the ALB Japan 2017 In-House Legal Summit
Date: 17 May 2017
Time: 8:30am- 5:30pm
Venue: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo | 2 Chome-2-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan
Download the latest agenda here
Welcome to the ALB Japan 2017 In-House Legal Summit
Date: 17 May 2017
Time: 8:30am- 5:30pm
Venue: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo | 2 Chome-2-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan
Summit Chairperson
Takayuki Kitajima
Chairman
International Corporate Counsel Association
Joined Unilever in 2006 as General Counsel. Become director of Unilever Japan Holdings in 2009, and then Representative Director from 2012. Prior to Unilever, joined Sojitz Corporation after graduated from Waseda University.
Speakers
Toshinari Asano
Managing Director
Nardello & Co.
Toshinari Asano is a Managing Director with Nardello & Co. in Tokyo, where he leads the firm’s Japan Practice. Toshi has been an investigator since 2003 and has significant experience conducting a wide variety of due diligence, complex investigative assignments involving fraud and corruption, asset searches and other litigation-support investigations for clients in Japan and overseas.
With a background in banking, Toshinari is particularly fluent in understanding the needs of investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms and real estate investment firms as it relates to mitigating potential and existing investment risk, KYC programs, counter-party risk assessment and due diligence in relation to M&A transactions. In one such matter, he helped a client extricate itself from a problematic real estate investment in Japan after its partners were found to have organized crime links. Toshinari has also led a large cross-border asset search for a Japanese client embroiled in litigation proceedings overseas, and managed an internal investigation into allegations of corruption and employee embezzlement at a US company’s operations in Japan.
Prior to joining Nardello & Co., Toshinari was a senior investigator in Japan with two international investigations firms. He began his career in the financial services industry, working for a Japanese long-term credit bank and a major US investment bank. He has also held a senior management position at a Japanese-Israeli technology venture company. Toshinari holds a BA in Legal Studies from the Sophia University in Tokyo and is fluent in Japanese and English.
Jake Adelstein
Special Correspondent
The Daily Beast
Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. He is also an advisor to NPO Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) and the forthcomingThe Last Yakuza: A Life In The Japanese Underworld.
Kouzou Ogawa
Lawyer
Shinozaki Shinji Law Office
Admitted to Practice: April 1992. Areas of Expertise: Expulsion of criminal syndicates or other anti-social groups attempting to obstruct lawful activity; in particular, preventing unlawful protests at auctions or illegal public loudspeaker broadcasts.
Kenya Sasada
Regional Director
Consilio Japan
Kenya Sasada is a regional director of Consilio Japan. Consilio is one of the top global discovery service provider, which have 24 branches over the world. Kenya has 5 year experience in eDiscovery and known a lot of methods to reduce the cost of eDiscovery. Not only Japan but also APAC, U.S and E.U. his network is expanding day and night to solve client’s matter.
Grant Tanabe
Foreign Law Partner
Sonderhoff & Einsel Law and Patent Office
Grant Tanabe’s practice focuses on corporate matters and commercial transactions, including strategic transactions and relationships such as joint ventures, cross-border M&A, and private equity investments as well as technology licensing and servicing agreements. Grant also advises on litigation matters, including representation of foreign companies in international arbitration cases with the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association.
Makoto Ohsugi
Partner
Sonderhoff & Einsel Law and Patent Office
Makoto Ohsugi’s practice covers general corporate matters and commercial transactions, M&A and commercial transactions, labour and human affairs, disputes on international and domestic commercial transactions including international commercial arbitration procedures, and labour disputes (mainly acting for employers).
Akiko Miyake
Senior Director
FTI Consulting
Akiko Miyake is a Senior Director based in Shanghai, and she leads the Technology practice at FTI Consulting in China. Ms. Miyake has advised clients on various eDiscovery matters including: Complex U.S. federal and state litigation; Product liability litigation; Securities litigations; and Large and small scale investigations (cross-border, U.S. government, FCPA, and internal) In her role, Ms. Miyake has managed and coordinated various multi-language electronic discovery projects, applied eDiscovery approaches to investigation, and contributed to minimizing cost by utilizing analytics tools and predictive coding. Throughout her career, Ms. Miyake has played an integral role in planning and organising multi-language document reviews , and has trained attorneys, in-house legal and compliance team members on effective and efficient use of eDiscovery approaches.
Satoshi Sato
Director - Senior Legal Expert of Legal and Compliance
Sony Mobile Communication
He is the current Director and Senior Legal Expert of the Legal and Compliance of Sony Mobile Communication. Prior to this post, he was part of Hikari-Tsushin Inc., Softbank (formally known as Vodafone Japan) ans Sony Ericsson Mobile. Communications Japan, Inc.
Yoko Oshima
Associate General Counsel and Chief Commercial Counsel
GE Japan
Yoko Oshima is Associate General Counsel and Chief Commercial Counsel of GE Japan. She joined GE Capital Asia Pacific 10 plus years ago and has been in the current role since 2015. She started her legal career at Anderson Mori (now Anderson Mori Tomotsune) in Tokyo and was with Clearly Gottlieb Steeen Hamilton in New York prior to joining GE.
David Litt
Professor
Keio University Law School
David is a professor at Keio University Law School in Tokyo. He teaches a wide range of subjects including Comparative Corporate Law, International Business Transactions, and Corporate Governance and Risk Management. David’s research interests focus on corporate law, corporate governance and energy law and regulatory policy.
From 2012 to 2015, David co-founded and served as CEO/Representative Director of Deneb Renewable Energy KK, a developer of solar power projects under Japan’s feed-in-tariff (FIT) for renewable energy. David previously served as a partner of Morrison & Foerster LLP, resident in Tokyo, and of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, resident in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Tokyo. He was recognized by industry publications as a leading lawyer in the corporate/M&A and investment funds areas.
Takase Hidejiro
Legal Counsel
SEGA Holdings
Attorney at law qualified in Japan (Bengoshi) since 2004. 2016 to present: Legal Counsel at Oversea legal team of legal department of SEGA Holdings Co., Ltd. 2013 to 2015: Head of Japan Desk at Oon&Bazul LLP in Singapore. 2012 to 2013: Kelvin Chia Partnership in Singapore. 2004 to 2011: Work for international law firms in Tokyo including Jones Day Tokyo, Tokyo-Marunouchi Law Offices. 2012: Washington University in St. Louis in United States (LL.M.) 2000: University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
Risa Imaizumi
Legal Manager
Microsoft Japan
Risa Imaizumi is a legal manager with Microsoft Japan, Ltd., Co. in Tokyo, where she works on licensing, services (support and consulting) and consumer related business support. Since the joining of the company in 2002, she has been working on various issues on software, hardware and cloud related deals with her internal business clients and external counsels. As a member of a multinational corporation, Risa has been working closely with colleagues worldwide. For example, when a regulatory issue around cloud services come up, she works closely with her colleagues at the headquarters in the US and APAC region. She also service as a committee member of an industry association for improvement of the Japanese government procurement system. Prior to joining Microsoft Japan, Risa worked as a practical trainee at an US law firm in New Jersey and for a Japanese trading company. She holds a BA of law from Keio University in Tokyo and LLM from the New York University of School of Law.
Natsue Ishida
General Counsel
Nihon L'Oreal KK
As the General Counsel Japan, Natsue Ishida is responsible for directing all legal matters relating to the entities of L’Oreal group in Japan, overseeing legal activities covering corporate, intellectual property, marketing, distribution, R&D, manufacturing and other areas. As the Japan Data Protection Officer, she leads the initiatives of the Data Protection Committee in Japan to advance compliance efforts of the company in line with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and L’Oreal group policies in line with EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Before joining L'Oreal, Ms. Ishida worked as the Head of Legal Department and a member of the Board of Directors at a major medical device/electronics company and as a Legal Counsel for a major securities company in Tokyo. Her international experience includes working in the US and Europe in the areas of data protection and transfer pricing practice at the international headquarters of a large multinational accounting firm. In addition to general corporate practice, her areas of focus include data protection, information security, corporate compliance, professional ethics, information technology, intellectual property and international taxation. Ms. Ishida holds a J.D. from a US law school and is a member of the New York State Bar.
Akane Yoshida
Legal Counsel
Johnson & Johnson K.K
Akane Yoshida is a Legal Counsel of Law Department, Johnson & Johnson K.K. She serves as a legal counsel for the medical device sector at Johnson & Johnson and working closely with the business for various legal matters since March 2015. Prior to joining to Johnson & Johnson, she has built her career as an in-house at the both Japanese and foreign-based companies mainly in the healthcare industry. Akane has a BA in Law from Waseda University and L.L.M. in US Law from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Nick Wall
Partner - Tokyo
Allen & Overy
Nick is widely recognised in Tokyo among clients and peers as a rare talent given his excellent legal skills, business acumen, and fully bilingual English and Japanese ability. For the past 12 years Nick has focused on Japanese inbound and outbound corporate M&A, joint ventures, capital markets issuances, anti-trust and regulatory issues and commercial contracts in a number of sectors including consumer and retail, financial services, manufacturing and technology.
Steven Harwood
Underwriter & Solicitor, M&A Insurance
Pembroke Managing Agency underwriting, Lloyd's Japan Inc.
Steven worked for 11 years in the Tokyo office of Herbert Smith Freehills primarily responsible for cross-border M&A transactions. From mid-2014 Steven joined Pembroke Managing Agency's M&A Insurance team becoming the first W&I underwriter to be based in Japan. In this role Steven underwrites both cross-border and domestic M&A transactions and tax indemnity risks issuing policies via Lloyd's Japan.
William Seccombe
Managing Director
JLT Mergers & Acquisitions Group
William has 28 years’ experience in Financial Risks insurance, the last five of which have been fully dedicated to Mergers & Acquisitions transaction risk. William started his career as an underwriter at Lloyd’s of London before moving to South Africa where he worked for 16 years for two international brokers. He moved to Asia in 2009 as head of Willis’ Greater China FINEX and M&A business before joining JLT. In the past six years William has handled some of Asia’s most complex and technical transaction risk placements including Japan’s three largest insured deals. William has been based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo and is now divides his time between Hong Kong & Tokyo.
Satoshi Muraoka
Japan Country Manager
Intralinks
Satoshi joined Intralinks in 2010. As the head of presales division, he launched enterprise service for corporations, and promoted to the sales director who oversees Intralinks’ operation in Japan in September 2013. Prior to joining Intralinks, he was leading installation consulting and presales of CRM software at Onyx Software/Consona Corporation (currently Aptean). He has nearly 20 years of experiences in software industry, including project management at Accenture and Japanese system integrators.
Tsuyoshi Yamazaki
Director
Integral Corporation
Tsuyoshi Yamazaki joined Integral Corporation in July 2009. He has been mainly involved in investments to Aderans Co., Ltd., Yohji Yamamoto Inc., FiBest, ltd. Prior to joining Integral Corporation, He worked at Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ) from 2004 and was mainly involved in corporate revitalization project of small and middle-sized manufacturing company. Before joining IRCJ, he worked at Strategic Business Transformation division of Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (now known as Abeam Consulting) and was involved in several business process transformation projects including cost reduction, inventory reduction, and operational improvement of automobile, retail, bank, and trading companies.
Hideyuki Tozawa
Partner
Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC
Hideyuki Tozawa is Head of TMT Unit. He is responsible for cross border M&A advisory services and domestic investment deals with focus on TMT sector. Prior to joining Deloitte, he started his career at Mitsui & co., and worked in NTT, and various PE/VC platforms including Carlyle Group, Intel Capital and Shinsei Bank (Private Equity Division). In recent years, he focused on cross-border M&A advisory in Investment Banking in Macquarie Capital. Hideyuki has engaged in variety of cross-border transaction deals including M&A financial advisory, Private Equity investment, and his major engagements in TMT sector.
Hideaki Umetsu
Partner
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Hideaki Umetsu is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. He focuses on, among others, international and domestic M&A transactions, Asia practice, and general corporate law and securities. He also has expertise in other emerging markets including Brazil, Mexico and Turkey. He was admitted to the Bar in 2004 in Japan and to the New York Bar in 2010. Umetsu was educated at the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2003) and the University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., 2009). From 2006 to 2007, he worked as an associate director at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, where he was in charge of M&A-related laws and regulations with a particular focus on management buy-outs. He also worked as a foreign temporary associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell from 2009 to 2010.
Welcome to the ALB Japan 2017 In-House Legal Summit
Date: 17 May 2017
Time: 8:30am- 5:30pm
Venue: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo | 2 Chome-2-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan
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