Noriya Ishikawa serves as co-representative of our offices in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, Germany. He is a partner at Nishimura & Asahi, specializing in the area of data protection.

He won 1st prize in the "Most Successful Lawyers in 2019 in the Area of Data Protection” sponsored by NIKKEI Inc. (a Japanese media organization with newspaper publishing).

He advises national and international clients from various industries, especially on multi-national data protection law projects such as drafting policy, data transfer agreements and out-sourcing agreements, IT compliance questions, and data breach issues. He also leads Nishimura & Asahi’s local Asian branch counsels in multi-national data protection law projects.

Recent activities

12/2020

The 2020 Amendment to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan

Newsletter

11/2020

Regulatory framework of Data Protection Officer and its relevant enforcement actions

Seminars

9/2020

Corpus Juris Series - Personal Information Protection Legislation (Global)

Books

Education

2016

Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (LL.M.)

2015

University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.)

2005

The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)

Professional experience

2020 -

Co-representative of Frankfurt & Düsseldorf Offices

2019 -

Advisor, Japan DPO Association

2019 -

Outside Corporate Auditor, QON Inc.

2016

Noerr LLP, Munich, Germany