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- Languages:
- Japanese English
- Practice areas:
- Defense against Hostile Takeover/Shareholder ActivismCorporate GovernanceShareholders' Meetings & Relationships with ShareholdersCorporate DisputesSecurities Litigation/Disputes Related to Financial ProductsCross-border RestructuringIP LitigationPL LitigationInsurance Related DisputesAlternative Dispute ResolutionInvestor-State Dispute SettlementInternational LitigationInternational Arbitration
- Qualifications:
- Admitted in Japan (1986)
Admitted in New York (1993)
Hiroyuki heads our international dispute resolution practice. He specializes in international commercial litigation and arbitration. He has represented many international clients, including manufacturers, banking and securities firms, insurance companies, and news media, in dispute resolutions involving M&A disputes, antitrust laws, corporate governance, insurance laws, intellectual property, defamation, joint ventures, licensing, construction, and other commercial matters, as well as international bankruptcy. He has been involved in a number of international arbitrations as counsel, sole-arbitrator, co-arbitrator, or chairman, including before the ICC, JCAA, AAA-ICDR, VIAC, KCAB, and SIAC.
Hiroyuki serves as an executive director of the Japan Association of Arbitrators, was a vice-chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA Legal Practice Division, and was a Co-Chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee at the IPBA from 2016 to 2020. From 2013 to 2016, he taught international arbitration at the University of Tokyo, School of Law as visiting professor. Since 2013, he has been a member of the SIAC's Court of Arbitration. He is also a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC and Since 2018 he is a Council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.
Recent activities
- 1/2021
The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2021: Outstanding Results for Nishimura & Asahi
Awards
- 12/2020
Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021: Top rankings for Nishimura & Asahi
Awards
- 10/2020
Seminars
Education
- 1992
- Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
- 1984
- The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
Professional experience
- 2018 -
- Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law
- 2018 -
- Member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC
- 2017 - 2018
- Alternate member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC
- 2016 -
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
- 2014 -
- SIAC's panel of arbitrators for Intellectual Property disputes, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
- 2013 - 2016
- Visiting Professor (International Commercial Arbitration), School of Law at the University of Tokyo
- 2013 -
- Member of SIAC's Court of Arbitration, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
- 2012 -
- Arbitrator of the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre
- 2011 - 2012
- Lecturer, Keio Law School
- 2011 -
- Certified arbitrator of CAA, The Chinese Arbitration Association,Taipei
- 2010 - 2017
- Auditor of the Board, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.
- 2010 -
- Arbitrator on the Panel of Arbitrators, The Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB)
- 2009 - 2010
- Examiner, The Japanese Bar Examination (Commercial Law)
- 2009 - 2010
- Member, IBA Arbitration Committee, The Rules of Evidence Subcommittee
- 2008 -
- Arbitrator, The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association
- 2008 - 2010
- Lecturer, Sophia Law School
- 2008 - 2010
- Special member, The Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice on legislation of international jurisdiction rules
- 2008 - 2020
- Outside Statutory Auditor, Showa Denko K.K.
- 2007 -
- Director, The Japan Association of Arbitrators
- 2007 - 2010
- Outside Corporate Auditor, Nissay Dowa General Insurance Co., Ltd.
- 2007 - 2008
- Vice-Chair, International Bar Association, Legal Practice Division, Arbitration Committee
- 2006 - 2010
- Inter-Pacific Bar Association, Committee Vice-Chairperson, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
- 2005 - 2011
- Special Member of the Financial System Council (Member of the Working Group on Reform of TOB System)
- 2005 - 2006
- Secretary, International Bar Association, Legal Practice Division, Arbitration Committee
- 2003 - 2005
- Coordinator of the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (Modernization of Private International Law)
- 1992 - 1993
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York