Shigeyoshi Ezaki is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and has a general corporate practice, which includes advising and assisting Japanese and foreign clients with respect to antimonopoly law, corporate law, trade regulations and intellectual property law. In addition to his professional experience at the firm, Mr. Ezaki worked for the New York firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges as a foreign attorney (1998 to 1999).

Yusuke Nakano is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, with broad experience in the areas of antitrust, business dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. In the antitrust area, he has particularly broad experience in cartel investigation and merger control, including international ones. Further, Mr. Nakano has assisted many Japanese companies and individuals involved in antitrust cases in foreign jurisdictions, in close cooperation with co-counsel in those jurisdictions. He has also represented various companies in administrative, civil and criminal litigation, mass and complex litigation, innovative mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and licensing arrangements. In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Mr. Nakano worked for the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, as a foreign intern (2001 to 2002).

Etsuko Hara is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune with broad experience in the area of antitrust, including international cartel cases, multi-jurisdictional merger filings as well as distribution arrangements, franchising, and strategic alliances. She handles various inbound and outbound cross border transactions, especially in the form of direct investment, joint ventures, and distribution, license and franchise agreements.

Takeshi Ishida is a Japanese qualified lawyer, and a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. He specializes in competition law, including defense against agency investigations into cartel, bid-rigging and unfair unilateral conduct, antitrust litigations and merger control, with special expertise in issues involving information technologies and intellectual property rights, based on his practical insight gained from first-hand experiences of handling leading cases in the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC). Prior to joining the firm, he was appointed as a deputy director at investigation bureau in the JFTC for 3 years. During his tenure, he was a lead case-handler in the Intellectual Property Task Force at the investigation bureau, dealing with investigations and litigations against IT major companies over cutting-edge cases. Moreover, he also acted as a chief investigator responsible for investigating on a wide range of infringement cases such as cartel, bid-rigging and unfair unilateral conduct, conducting dawn raids over more than a dozen cases, and also representing the JFTC before the Tokyo district court and administrative hearings. Before serving for the Japanese agency, he practiced with Blakemore & Mitsuki as a senior associate, advising mainly on competition law issues to clients, such as a patent pool company and major IT companies, and dealing with merger control and litigations. Besides his competition law expertise, his practices encompass the full range of general corporate issues, with considerable experience in litigations and white crime matters, and he also has a deep knowledge of information and communication technology sector.

Junichi Kondo is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and is engaged principally in the fields of general corporate matters with an emphasis on M&A, joint venture and other corporate transactions including M&A-related financing. His scope of experience also includes healthcare matters including pharmaceutical regulations and software licensing.

Atsushi Yamada is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune focusing on competition/antitrust law. His practice covers all aspects of competition/antitrust law including assisting clients in investigations by competition authorities (cartels/dominance/unfair trade practices), representation in courts/tribunals challenging decisions made by competition authorities, follow-on civil litigation, and merger filings. He also provides advice relating to structuring new businesses and compliance programs. His clients include both multinational and Japanese companies in various industries, such as information technology, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, construction, transportation, financial institutions and trading houses. Prior to joining Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, he has worked at the Tokyo office of a US law firm and a local Japanese firm after serving as a judge at the Tokyo District Court as well as other courts. With such background, he has extensive experience in litigation and general corporate matters. He is also well experienced in providing labor and employment law advice to both Japanese and non-Japanese companies.

Mr. Yoshinori Aoyagi is a partner working primarily in the fields of M&A including cross border transactions. He has also been advising on various corporate law related issues including shareholders meetings and corporate governance. He has also been involved with antitrust issues including merger control and has also been advising on healthcare and life science related issues.

Takeshi Suzuki is working mainly in the fields of antitrust and competition law, M&A transactions and other corporate legal affairs. Prior to joining Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune, he practiced cross-border M&A transaction matters as well as Japan and EU competition law in Tokyo and Brussels for approximately four years at a leading UK firm and then worked for the Merger Investigation Division of the Japan Fair Trade Commission as a chief case handler of merger filings for approximately two years. With this background, his practice focuses on Japan and international competition law with a particular emphasis on merger control. He also provides legal advice in a number of matters related to domestic cartel/bid rigging, distribution, intellectual property, Subcontract Act.

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).

Hideto Ishida is an of counsel at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, and counsels a variety of domestic and foreign multinational companies in Japanese anti-trust and competition matters, including those relating to cartels, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution agreements, license agreements and other cooperation agreements. He also represents many companies involved in investigations before the Japan Fair Trade Commission and other foreign competition authorities for price cartels, bid rigging and similar serious alleged violations such as vitamin, graphite electrode, GIS, marine hose, air fare, LCD, Auto parts, Maritime, Libor/Tibor FX international and certain Bond international cartels. He served for seven years as the first attorney appointed as a special investigator with the Japanese Fair Trade Commission and thus has a keen sense of the actual and practical application of antitrust and distribution regulations to companies doing business in Japan.