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Hiroyuki Kanae

Hiroyuki Kanae

TEL:
81-3-6775-1011
FAX:
81-3-6775-2011

Hiroyuki Kanae focuses on corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions (domestic and international), corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, labor and employment law (including dispute settlements), corporate governance, IP license agreements, and real estate transactions. He also advises on commercial litigation matters, including domestic and cross-border litigations involving major Japanese and foreign companies.

He represents major Japanese manufacturing companies, foreign financial institutions and high tech companies, as well as private equity funds.

He has been advising on the global development projects mainly for the major Japanese companies investing in North America, Europe and Asia pacific regions and has more than 30 year experiences in the cross-border M&A. In recent years, he has completed M&As and joint ventures not only in Europe and the North America but also in Asian and pacific rim developing countries by collaborating with rich overseas networks in the areas of semi-conductor, high tech, nano-tech, aviation and space, pharmaceutical, medical equipment and software industries.

Through experience of a member of the audit and supervisory board of a major logistic company that has been seeking the global strategy, he advises on the real need of management strategy foreseeing the post-merger integration.

Kanae Hiroyuki

Practice Areas

Practice Groups

  • Corporate Transaction Group
  • Dispute Resolution Group
  • Labor Law Group
  • Asia and Emerging Countries Practice Group
  • Data Privacy & Digital Group
  • Life Sciences and Health Care Practice Group

Background

Mar 1976 Waseda University (LL.B.)
Jun 1987 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Law (M.C.L.)
Sep 1987 Coudert Brothers (New York Office)

Publications

Sony Insurance USD 150M Fraud Case: Successful International Cooperation to Seize Embezzled Funds Converted to Bitcoin ICC FraudNet Global Annual Report 2023 "FRAUD AND ASSET RECOVERY IN AN UNSTABLE WORLD"
Jul 2023
Commercial Dispute Resolution - Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery (Japan Chapter) Commercial Dispute Resolution - Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2023
Apr 2023
Commercial Dispute Resolution - Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery (Japan Chapter) Commercial Dispute Resolution - Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2022
Apr 2022
International Fraud & Asset Tracing 2021 Chambers Global Practice Guides
May 2021
Crowdfunding changes the Japanese investment style - Grassroot fundraising "M&A Information Platform" published by INCGROW
Nov 2017
Overseas development and localization of Sushi business through franchise "M&A Information Platform" published by INCGROW
Feb 2017
May 2015

Lectures

Dynamics and key points of Cross-border M&A Financial Management Forums, Inc.
Mar 1, 2018
Dynamics and key points of Cross-border M&A Financial Management Forums, Inc.
Mar 2, 2017
International Sanctions Compliance Seminar Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Slaughter and May
Apr 19, 2016

Achievements

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (1979)
  • New York (1988)

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English