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紺野 博靖
紺野 博靖

Hiroyasu KONNO

  • Partner
  • Tokyo

Hiroyasu Konno provides legal services with additional value, based on knowledge about industrial practices and policy trends through all value chains in the energy and natural resources sector. He also actively works on legal issues with regard to “carbon” such as CCS.

Hiroyasu Konno specializes in the energy and natural resources sector, mainly in the upstream and middle-stream sectors, such as projects and transactions regarding LNG, biomass fuels, coal, rare metals, copper ore, petroleum, and other minerals in the world, as well as the down-stream sectors such as transactions regarding electricity and gas in Japan. He has a breadth of knowledge about industrial practices and policy trends, through his experience working as a secondee, or temporary worker, at Nippon Oil (currently ENEOS), JOGMEC (Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (currently Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security)),and JERA, in addition to an energy and natural resources team in a foreign law firm, as well as experience from being a committee member of relevant governmental panels. He always endeavors to provide clients with legal services with additional value, including managerial perspectives. He handles all kinds of legal issues related to the energy and natural resources sector, by closely working together with N&A’s experts in each sector. He also actively works on legal issues with regard to “carbon”, such as CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage), transactions of carbon credits, and others.

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2006
Cornell Law School (LL.M.)
1997
Waseda Universtiy (LL.B.)

Professional Experience

Committee Member, the New LNG Strategy Review Meeting 
Committee Member, CCS Forum, Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage Technology 
A member of the “EU Japan LNG expert and stakeholder group” which supports the workshops for promoting the liquidity, flexibility and transparency of the global LNG market co-organised by the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and the Mini
A member of the LNG Task Force of the Energy Charter Secretariat  
Strategic Planning Division, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation 
Energy & Resources group, Clayton Utz, Brisbane, Australia 
Member, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (Tokyo Subcommittee Member) 
A leading energy and resources company in Japan 
Mcmillan Binch Mendelsohn, Toronto, Canada 
Lecturer, Waseda University Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies