Practice Areas

• Corporate business law
• Civil and commercial affairs
• Bankruptcy and corporate revival
• Reorganization including M&A
• Antitrust law
• Chinese law (Joint venture, investment and trade, etc.)
• Intellectual property rights

Biography

1969

Born in Hyogo

Mar. 1988

Hyogo prefectural Toyooka High School

Mar. 1992

Kansai University Faculty of Law (LL.B.)

Apr. 1994

The Supreme Court's Legal Research and Training Institute (46th term)

Apr. 1994

Admitted to the Bar
Registered with the Osaka Bar Association
Midosuji Law Office

Sep. 1998

J&J Law Firm (Beijing, China)

Jul. 1999

Peking University Department of Law (Programs completed)

Jan. 2002

Partner of Midosuji Law Office

Jan. 2003

Partner of Midosuji Legal Profession Corporation (~ present)

Experience

• Civil rehabilitation proceeding for construction companies and golf course management companies
• Antitrust cases including price fixing and bid-rigging

Publications

• “Analysis regarding validity of the covenant which restricts employees after completion of the oversea trainings under Chinese labor law” (Kokusai Shouji Houmu Vol. 26, No.10, co-author Takashi Soga)
• “The 100 Selected Chinese Cases: Duty to explain a disclaimer provision in an insurance agreement” (Kokusai Shouji Houmu Vol.28, No.9)
• “The 100 Selected Chinese Cases: Cases where the court held that apparent authority did not exist” (Kokusai Shouji Houmu Vol.29, No.7)
• “The 100 Selected Chinese Cases: Duty to protect commercial secrets after termination of the contract” (Kokusai Shouji Houmu Vol.30, No.3)
• “The 100 Selected Chinese Cases: Cases where the court found obligee's subrogation right” (Kokusai Shouji Houmu Vol.31, No.6)
• Analysis on cases of petitions for civil rehabilitation proceedings: Case of Saimon Construction Co., Ltd., Characteristics of practices by the petitioning company - the pioneering case in which the composition with local general constructors was shifted to a civil rehabilitation proceeding” (Kikan Saiken Kanri Vol.94)
• “(Clause-by-clause commentary) Practices of Chinese Contract Law” (Chuokeizai-sha, Inc. Published in January 2004, co-author Yukitaka Murakami et.al.)

Activities

Member of Asian Law Study Group

Foreign Language

Chinese

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