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Hiroshi Akiyama

Osaka

Partner
Osaka Bar Association

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
  • Entertainment and Sports Law
  • Response to Irregularities, Crisis Management

Biography

1969 Born in Hyogo
1969 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)
Midosuji Law Firm (currently, Midosuji LPC)
Sep. 1998 J&J Law Firm (Beijing, China)
Jul. 1999 Peking University Department of Law (Programs completed)
Jan. 2002 Partner of Midosuji Law Firm (currently, Midosuji LPC) (- present)
Jun. 2011 Outside company auditor of Kotaro pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (- present)
Jun. 2015 Outside company auditor of Fujiki Komuten Co., Ltd. (- Jun. 2020)
Jun. 2016 Outside director of Torishima Pump Mfg. Co., Ltd. (- present)
Jun. 2020 Outside director of Fujiki Komuten Co., Ltd. (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) (- 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.)
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Languages

Japanese / Chinese