Kentaro Hirayama

Kentaro Hirayama is an associate working primarily in the field of Antitrust law (advising on both Japan FTC's cartel investigations and merger filings), government regulations and other Corporate Legal Affairs.

In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, he worked for the Japan Fair Trade Commission (July 2007 – June 2010), where he was working as a case manager in Marin Hose case and other high-profile international cartel cases and an abuse of dominance case. In the course of these world-wide parallel investigations, he also engaged in information exchanges, coordination of simultaneous dawn-raids and other discussions with foreign competition authorities.

・"PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook 2006/07 Volume 2: Leniency" (Practical Law Company, 2006) （co-author）
・"Leniency Program" (Chuo Keizai, 2006) (Japanese) (co-author)
・"Public Procurement" (Japan chapter) (Global Competition Review, 2007) (co-author)
・"Cease and desist order and surcharge payment orders against manufacturers of marine hose"(Fair Trade Institute, 2008) (Japanese) (co-author)
・"The use of economic analysis in cartel cases" (lectured at a seminar held by OECD-Korea Policy Centre and KPPU (Indonesian competition commission), 2010)
・"Recent Cases and Enforcement Trends concerning Premiums and Representations Act" (Chuo Keizai, 2010) (Japanese)
・"Outline of Monopolisation Cases in Japan" (lectured at Japan Competition Law Forum, unilateral conduct study group) (June 2011)
・"Outline of the European Commission's Horizontal Cooperation Guidelines" NBL No.949 (2011)(Japanese)
・"Review of US & EU Competition Law Cases" (Shoji Homu, March 2011)(co-author)
・"2010 Antitrust Year In Review," (Japan chapter) (ABA International Law Section, International Antitrust Committee, April 2011)(co-author)
・"Chinese Antimonopoly Law Q&A" LexisNexis Japan (2011) (co-author)
・"Unfair restraint of trade -- Cartel, bid rigging and horizontal cooperation agreements" (lectured at "2011 Beginners course on Anti-Monopoly Act" seminar held by Fair Trade Institute, 2011)
・"Antimonopoly Law Introductory Course for the Fair Trade Institute (Newsletter)" (Fair Trade Institute, 2011) (Japanese)(co-author)
・"Usage of Anti-monopoly Act against abuse of Intellectual Property Right," (lectured at a seminar held by Daini Tokyo Bar Association, 2011)
・"The first administrative fine in an abuse of superior bargaining position case - FTC order dated June 22, 2011" Jurist No.1430 (2011) (Japanese)
・"Outline of Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law and Practical Issues," (lectured at a seminar organized by Lexis Nexis, 2011)
・"Merger Notification Systems in Asian Countries," (Fair Trade Institute, 2011)(Japanese) (co-author)
・"The Merger Control Review, Second Edition" (Law Business Research, 2011) （co-author）
・"Countermeasure against Violation of Anti-Monopoly Act through Private Litigation, Provisional Injunction and Notice to the Japan Fair Trade Commission" (Lexis Nexis Japan, 2011) (Japanese)
・"Outline of Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law and Practical Issues -merger notification-," (lectured at a seminar organized by Competition Law Study Group, 2011) 
・"Key points to use Anti-Monopoly Act against abusive conducts by business partners and competitors," (lectured at a seminar held by Business Research Institute, 2012) 
・"Usage of Anti-Monopoly Act against abuse of Intellectual Property Right," (lectured at a basic class "Competition policy and Intellectual Property" at Master of Intellectual Property, Graduate School of Innovation Studies, Tokyo University of Science , 2012)

・Japan (2002)

・Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
・International Bar Association (IBA)
・Competition Law Study Group of Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
・Japan Association of Economic Law
・Japan Association of the Law of Civil Procedure
・Japan Competition Law Forum
・Licensing Executives Society Japan (LESJ)
・Intellectual Property Association of Japan (IPAJ)

・Japanese (first language)
・English