Ken Kawai advises domestic and international financial institutions, fintech companies, self-regulatory organizations, investors, and corporate clients across a broad range of industries on complex financial regulatory matters. He is widely recognized as a leading practitioner in fintech law. His practice covers a wide spectrum of fintech-related legal issues, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, digital securities, NFTs, digital asset investment funds, DID/VC, cross-border electronic payments, open banking, and the metaverse. He also has expertise in derivatives and advises global banks, broker-dealers, and investors on regulatory matters and best practices in this area.

Yoshiharu Usuki is a partner at Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune with broad experience in the area of antitrust/competition law. In the competition area, he is particularly experienced in Japan Fair Trade Commission cartel investigations and other foreign competition authority cartel investigations, bid rigging and other serious alleged violations. Also he is broadly experienced in anti-trust and competition matters relating to dominance regulations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution agreements and license agreements. In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune, he worked for the London law firm of Fieldfisher LLP, as a foreign lawyer (2014 to 2015).