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Baker McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise)’s ‘exceptional’ antitrust and competition team in Toyko, widely praised for its ‘deep expertise and global reach’, regularly handles high-profile merger control, monopolisation, and unfair trade practice matters. Recent highlights for the group also include work on global cartel investigations concerning HDD spring technology and capacitor products. With expertise encompassing cartel investigations and multijurisdictional merger control issues as well as experience working at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Junya Ae leads the team alongside Akira Inoue, who stands out for his experience in international cartel cases. Michio Suzuki’s practice covers merger control, cartel, and compliance work. Former Secretary General of the Japanese Fair Trade Commission Shuichi Sugahisa is also a key contact. Cartel specialists Hiroaki Nagahashi and Ryo Yamaguchi are noted for their contribution to the team.
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Testimonials
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‘Akira Inoue and the Tokyo team are knowledgeable, responsive, and creative in providing excellent legal advice.'
'Junya Ae, Hiroaki Nagahashi and Ryo Yamaguchi fully understand our businesses, organisation and each committee activities. Under the leadership of Junya Ae, they take a commercial approach that is balanced with competition law compliance, making full use of their abundant knowledge and information as a competition law expert so that our business and our member companies may not infringe competition law.’
Key clients
- Sumitomo Corporation
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.
Work highlights
Represented and advised NHK Spring and its subsidiaries in relation to the global cartel investigations and follow-on private litigations for the disk suspension used for hard disk drive in the U.S., Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Brazil and Taiwan.
Advising and representing Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in relation to the merger control/foreign investment review (FIR)/foreign subsidy regulations (FSR) aspects of its acquisition of shares in Coherent Corp.'s carved-out silicon carbide business entity together with other Japanese investor.