Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Hiroki Wakabayashi

Partner
  1. 81-3-6888-1047
  2. 81-3-6888-3047
Key Practice Areas
Financial and Securities Dispute Resolution  International Litigation and Arbitration  Employment Litigation and Dispute Resolution   Commercial Litigation  Bankruptcy and Insolvency /Restructuring  Estate and Business Succession Dispute Resolution  Alternative Dispute Resolution  Other Dispute Resolution 
Related Practice Areas
Corporate and Commercial Law  Corporate Governance  Crisis Management/Corporate Compliance/Anti-Corruption and Investigations  Real Estate Transactions  Employment Law and Compliance  IP Infringement Litigation/Dispute Resolution  Health Care, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences   Distribution Issues/Premiums and Representations Act/Subcontract Act/Unfair Trade Practices Act  Tax Litigation and Dispute Resolution  Asia and Emerging Countries 
Hiroki Wakabayashi is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, primarily representing both Japanese and non-Japanese financial institutions, audit corporations and business corporations in transaction disputes, professional responsibility disputes, labor relation disputes and other types of disputes, based on his experience as a lawyer to date as well as a district court judge for six years, from 1996-2002. In addition to these corporate related disputes, he also practices in the areas of inheritance and domestic relations.
・Litigation Practice
Publications:
・"The Financial ADR System in Japan," (Global Reference Guide: Litigation & Dispute Resolution 2011) (co-author)　
・"New Edition - Loan Management and Collection Series - Provisional Attachment, Preliminary Injunction and Preliminary Registration" (Kinyu Zaisei Jijou Kenkyukai, Publishers, 2011) (co-author)　
・"Dispute Resolution (Litigation & Arbitration)," Corporate INTL (October 2010)
・"Success in establishing a reasonable and persuasive story based on real-time information against plausible afterthoughts," The Lawyers (August 2010)
・"Inspection of Real Property in Auction" and "Revisions to Auctions of Real Property" (Chuo Keizai Sha, 2004)
・"Provisional Remedies," Traffic Accident Damage Litigation (Shin Saibanjitsumu Taikei Vol. 5) (Serin Shoin, Publishers, 2003)
・"Preliminary Injunction against Publication and Broadcasting of One's Criminal Records," Civil Provisional Remedies Law (Shin Saibanjitsumu Taikei Vol. 13) (Seirin Shoin, Publishers, 2002)
・"Issues Regarding Preliminary Injunction against Construction Involving So-called Distasted Facilities," Civil Provisional Remedies Law (Shin Saibanjitsumu Taikei Vol. 13) (Seirin Shoin, Publishers, 2002)
・"Permissibility of Replacing of Security for Civil Provisional Remedies," Civil Provisional Remedies Law (Shin Saibanjitsumu Taikei Vol. 13) (Seirin Shoin, Publishers, 2002)
・Commentary on Articles 77, 78, 80 and 81 of Civil Procedure Law, Civil Procedure Law Commentary Vol. 2 (Seirin Shoin, Publishers, 2000) (co-author)
・"Availability and Usefulness of Preliminary Injunction for Conservation of Mortgage," Ginko Homu, Vol. 21, No. 575 (2000)
・"Summary Cancellation of Security for Civil Provisional Remedies," Civil Provisional Remedies (Gendai Saiban Taikei Vol. 14) (Shin Nihon Hoki, Publishers, 1999)
・"First Ruling on Employee Termination," International Commercial Litigation (October 1995)
・"Outline of U.S. SEC's Deregulatory Measures Involving Foreign Corporations," Shoji Homu, Nos. 1340 and 1341 (1993) (co-author)
・"Outline of Williams Act Requiring Information Disclosure Regarding Acquisition of U.S. Publicity Traded Corporations," Kokusai Homu Senryaku, Vol. II, No. 9 (1993) (co-author)
Lectures:
・"Extraterritorial reach of domestic laws in cross-border litigation," Participated as a panalist at IBA Annual Litigation Forum in New York (May 2012) 
・Tokyo University (LL.B., 1987)
・University of Chicago (LL.M., 1993)
・Trained at a law firm in the United States
・Japan (1989)
・New York (1994)
・Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
・Arbitrator, Arbitration Center of Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
・IPBA
・ABA
・Special Member, Dispute Reconciliation Committee for Nuclear Damage Compensation, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology (2011-present)
・Japanese (first language)
・English