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Masanori Hirata

Masanori Hirata

Osaka

Partner
Osaka Bar Association

Practice Areas

  • Corporate business law, Civil and commercial affairs (especially litigation/ dispute cases)
  • Litigation for Corporation
  • Corporate law including compliance matter
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Financial law
  • Real estate

Biography

1972 Born in Osaka
Mar. 1990 Koyo Gakuin High School
Mar. 1995 Kyoto University Faculty of Law (LL.B.)
Apr. 1997 The Supreme Court's Legal Research and Training Institute (49th term)
Midosuji Law Firm (currently, Midosuji LPC)
Jan. 2003 Partner of Midosuji LPC (- present)
Jun. 2007 Outside company auditor of Access Co., Ltd. (- Jul. 2014)
Jun. 2014 Outside company auditor of NCS&A Co., Ltd. (- Jun. 2016)
Jun. 2020 Outside director of CDG Co., Ltd. (- present)
Jul. 2021 Advisor of Osaka Dental Association(- present)
Jun. 2023 Outside company auditor of Chugai Ro Co., Ltd. (- present)

Experience

  • Filing for an injunction of import and sale pursuant to unfair competition prevention law
  • Shareholders’ derivative action (Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd.) (Management Side)
  • Litigation claiming damages for public land trust (representing the trustee bank)
  • Criminal Defense, JR Fukuchiyama Line Derailment Accident Case prosecuted by a public prosecutor. The acquittal has become final and binding at the first trial.
  • Litigation cases claiming damages based on the Product Liability Act

Publications

  • Legal Practice for Disciplinary Actions -Q&A and Case Study (Shin Nippon Hoki, Publishing Co., Ltd. in Sep. 2014) , Joint Author

Lectures

  • “Joint Research and Development Agreement ~ Basic knowledge and points to note” (Patent Professional Corporation, MAEDA & PARTNERS, in Jan. 2005)
  • “Seminar on the Amended Unfair Competition Prevention Act ~ For Protection of Trade Secrets and Urgent Measures to be Taken ~”
    (Midosuji LPC in Sep. 2015)
  • “2015 Revised Employee Invention System Seminar” (Midosuji LPC in Jan. 2016)
  • “2015 Revised Employee Invention System Seminar ~ For Review of Employee Invention Regulations based on the draft guidelines ~” (Patent Professional Corporation, MAEDA & PARTNERS, in Mar. 2016)