Mr Shinichiro Shimizu > Atsumi & Sakai > Tokyo, Japan > Lawyer Profile
Atsumi & Sakai Offices
FUKOKU SEIMEI BUILDING
2-2-2 UCHISAIWAICHO
CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO 100-0011
Japan
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Mr Shinichiro Shimizu
Work Department
Corporate Scandals (investigating wrongdoing, internal investigations, acting on third party advisory committees), Risk Management（crisis management and dealing with government authorities), Compliance (accounting fraud, insider trading, Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (including market manipulation, tax law, white collar crime cases including domestic/foreign bribery), Litigation/Dispute Resolution on Tax Law, and Criminal Law (initial response to criminal cases, criminal defence, criminal accusation) etc.
Position
Partner
Career
Public prosecutor (October 2001-August 2018)
Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office (Special Investigation Department) (2010)
Administration Division, Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, Financial Services Agency (2012-2014)
Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (Special Investigation Department) (2015)
Languages
Japanese and English
Memberships
Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association
Education
Hitostubashi University (LL.B., 2000)
The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
Lawyer Rankings
Japan > Tax: Independent local firms
The tax team at Atsumi & Sakai
is especially experienced in advising clients on tax planning, auditing, and accounting work. Teruhisa Tomoya leads the tax and accounting department alongside Hisashi Miyatsuka and Takashi Tezuka, while fellow co-head Shinichiro Shimizu leads the special tax team. Clients are regularly advised on corporate tax matters, tax issues relating to organisational restructurings, securities transactions, and financial due diligence in cases of mergers and acquisitions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: Independent local firms
- Banking and finance: Independent local firms
- Corporate and M&A: Independent local firms
- Fintech - Independent local firms
- Intellectual property: Independent local firms
- Projects and energy: Independent local firms
- Risk management and investigations: Independent local firms
- TMT: Independent local firms
- Capital markets: Independent local firms
- Dispute resolution: Independent local firms
- Labour and employment: Independent local firms
- Real estate and construction: Independent local firms
- Shipping: Independent local firms
- Tax: Independent local firms