Aoi Inoue

Aoi Inoue is an associate working primarily in the fields of litigation, international commercial arbitration and other dispute resolution procedures. His scope of experience also includes mergers and acquisitions, financial transactions and general corporate matters.

・ Litigation Practice
・ Corporate Transaction
・ Financial Services & Transactions
・ Structured Finance

Publications:
・"Convenience Store Franchisor Breached Anti-monopoly Act," International Law Office (September 2009) (co-author)
・"New Act Sets Out Terms of Jurisdictional Immunity for Foreign States," International Law Office (August 2009) (co-author)
・"Case note on the Supreme Court decision confirming the presumption of a bad faith beneficiary in Article 704 of the Civil Code where a money lending business falls outside the application of Article 43, Paragraph 1 of the Money-Lending Business Act," Minji Kensyu No. 626 (June 2009) (co-author)
・"Fair Trade Commission Investigates Convenience Store Franchisor," International Law Office (April 2009) (co-author)
・"Court Rules on Trademark Dispute between Franchisors," International Law Office (November 2008) (co-author)
・"Supreme Court Rules on Franchisor's Duty to Disclose Information to Franchisees," International Law Office (September 2008) (co-author)
・"Forum Selection Clauses in Franchise Agreements," International Law Office (June 2008) (co-author)
・"International Arbitration in Business Dispute Resolution-Introduction," Lexis Kigyo Homu (Maｙ 2007) (co-author)
・Guide to Japan's New Corporation Law: An analysis of the new corporate system based upon a review of the new provisions (Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc., 2005) (co-author)

Lectures:
・"Practice of International Commercial Arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) / the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR)," lectured for the seminar organized by the Japan Association of Arbitrators (December 2011)
・"New Standards in International Business Dispute Resolution - Recent Movements and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration," lectured for the seminar organized by the Financial Management Forums, Inc. (November 2011)

Tokyo University (LL.B., 2001); The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, 2003-2004; graduate study, Columbia University School of Law (LL.M., 2010). Associated with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, September 2010-March 2011. Trained at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), April-June 2011.

・Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
・Deputy Secretary General, Japan Association of Arbitrators (2005-present)
・International Bar Association

・ Japanese (first language)
・ English