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Hiroki Kodate

Hiroki Kodate

Partner
Member of Management Committee
TEL:
81-3-6775-1047
FAX:
81-3-6775-2047

Hiroki Kodate is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and engaged principally in the fields of M&A and general corporate matters, and regularly advises both Japanese and non-Japanese clients in this regard.

In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Mr. Kodate worked for the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, where he was in charge of the legislative project to modernize Japanese corporate laws (2002-2005). He also worked for Slaughter and May in London as a foreign secondee (2000-2001).

Kodate Hiroki

Practice Areas

Practice Groups

  • Corporate Transaction Group

Background

1994 The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
1994 - 1996 The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
2000 Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
2002 - 2005 Worked for the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice
Aug 2005 - Mar 2006 Member, the Working Group, the Study Council for Promoting Translation of Japanese Laws and Regulations into Foreign Languages, the Cabinet Secretariat
Nov 2022 - Member, the Study Group on Fair Takeovers, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Apr 2023 - Member of Management Committee at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Publications

The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Twelfth Edition (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Twelfth Edition
Oct 2018
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Eleventh Edition (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Eleventh Edition
Nov 2017
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Tenth Edition (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Tenth Edition
Nov 2016
Japan Chapter The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Ninth Edition
Nov 2015
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Eighth Edition (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Eighth Edition
Sep 2014
Aug 2014
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Seventh Edition (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Seventh Edition
Aug 2013
Japan Chapter The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Sixth Edition
Nov 2012
Japan Chapter The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Fifth Edition
Nov 2011
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review (Fourth Edition) (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review (Fourth Edition)
Oct 2010
Case review for "Rakuten v. TBS (provisional injunction)" Analysis and Expansion of M&A Judicial Precedents, Keizai Horei
Jun 2010
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review (Third Edition) (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review (Third Edition)
Nov 2009
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review (Japan Chapter) The Mergers & Acquisitions Review (Second Edition)
Oct 2008
Reform provides new approach to mergers The IFLR Guide to Japan 2006
Dec 2005
New Corporation Law and Financial Transactions Economic Legal Research Institute
Sep 2005
Jul 2005

Lectures

New Corporation Law and Its Practice - Deregulation of Consideration for Merger Anderson Mori & Tomotsune: Chinese Economic Laws and Corporation Law Legislation Project
Jan 24, 2016
New Corporation Law Kyoto University Graduate School of Law, 21st Century COE Program, COE Seminar
Jan 6 - 7, 2006
Jun 16, 2005

Achievements

Sep 14, 2023
Jul 27, 2023
Apr 14, 2022
Apr 15, 2021
Jul 17, 2012
Sep 14, 2010

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (1996)
  • New York (2001)

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English