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Summit Chairperson

Hiromi Furushima, Corporate Officer, Head of Legal/IP Department, General Counsel, Novartis Pharma KK.

Hiromi jointed Novartis in April 2011, and after serving various roles, she assumed the current position since June 2015. 

Prior to joining Novartis, she spent 13 years as an attorney in private practice at Koga & Partners, Nishimura & Asahi and Morrison & Foerster/Ito & Mitomi in Tokyo, doing various corporate and IP transactional works. 

She also serves as a director of the Japan Pharmaceutical Industry Legal Affairs Association and a member of Intellectual Property Committee of Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.

She received her Master of Jurisprudence from Stanford Law School and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tokyo, and is admitted to practice in Japan and California.

 

Speakers/Panelists

Soichiro Fujiwara, Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Soichiro Fujiwara is a partner with Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He also has deep knowledge and experience in the area of TMT-related matters including those relating to FinTech, AI, IoT, and cybersecurity issues.

He is in charge of LegalTech matters in Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, and serves as an outside director of MNTSQ, a LegalTech start-up with which Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu entered into a business and capital alliance in 2019.

He received his LL.B. from the University of Tokyo in 1996 and was admitted to practice law in Japan in 1998. He received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2003 and worked in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster LLP as a visiting international attorney from 2003 to 2004. He has been an adjunct lecturer at Sophia University since 2008 and at Kyoto University since 2009.

 

Tetsuo Kurita; Managing Partner, One Asia Lawyers (Qualified in Singapore, Japan and NY; USA)

After 7 years at the Mori Hamada Law Firm in Japan, Tetsuo furthered his studies overseas in Switzerland and the USA, and went on to be a partner in one of Singapore’s top law firms, Rajah & Tann. He then became the head of Asian operations for Baker & McKenzie. Now based in Singapore, he specialises in all cross-border legal transactions, including M&A and trade disputes. In 2014, he became the first Japanese qualified lawyer to pass the Foreign Practitioner Examination in Singapore. He is also the first Japanese lawyer to be a case managing officer at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, dealing with many cross-border issues. He teaches investment law in Hitotsubashi National University in Japan since 2017.

 

Hisakazu Mizuseki; Partner,  One Asia Lawyers (Qualified in Japan)

After working for six years at a mid-sized Japanese law firm specialized in M&A and business restructuring practice, Hisakazu Mizuseki joined as a partner in ONE ASIA LAWYERS (OneAsia,Tokyo office), which has many offices in ASEAN countries.

He has extensive experience in corporate legal issues (dispute resolution, labor, M&A, reorganization, etc), represented with wide range of clients, from start-up companies to listed companies. He is also specialized in domestic bankruptcy and business restructuring cases.

 

Christopher D. Frey, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

 

Christopher D. Frey is a partner in the Litigation Department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and is based in the firm’s Tokyo office. He focuses his practice on white-collar and regulatory defense, government and internal investigations, and high-stakes litigation.

 

Chris regularly advises major Japanese and other global financial institutions and companies in their most sensitive matters, and has significant experience in the FCPA, anti-money laundering, and economic sanctions areas. Chris also routinely provides strategic counseling on compliance issues and crisis management.

 

Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Chris served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He investigated and prosecuted a wide array of complex white-collar matters, including FCPA violations, insider trading, accounting fraud, market manipulation, investment advisor fraud, money laundering, intellectual property and cybercrimes, and criminal tax offenses. Chris also served as Associate Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel. In that capacity, he helped develop and execute the White House’s response to various Congressional investigations, and provided legal and strategic advice on compliance, oversight and risk management issues.

 

Chris received a B.A. from Syracuse University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

 

Shahana Chatterji, Partner, Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Ms. Shahana Chatterji is a Partner with the Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs team at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas. Prior to Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, she has worked with S&R Associates, New Delhi and the U.S. Congress, Washington D.C.

Shahana received an honours degree from the University of Delhi in Sociology after which she read for her LL.B. degree from the University of Warwick in England. She also holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center in U.S.A.

Shahana has been deeply involved with policy and regulatory issues both in India and in the United States. She has worked with a Representative at the U.S. Congress in Washington D.C., where she engaged with expansive legislative and policy matters, ranging from healthcare reform to financial reform. Before working with the U.S. Congress, she worked extensively on capital markets and corporate finance transactions and also advised clients on foreign investment and financial regulatory issues here in India.

Shahana’s deep understanding of complex regulatory and policy matters led her to assist some of the world’s leading technology companies understand, prepare for and respond to the rapidly changing tech landscape in India. As a result, Shahana has been at the forefront of developments at the intersection of technology and the highly regulated sectors in India of banking finance, health and pharma, agriculture etc.

Shahana has worked closely with the world’s largest technology, internet and social media companies and has led matters relating to data privacy, online speech and content regulation, intermediary liability, risk profiling for disruptive technologies and solutions including AI solutions in the healthcare sector, e- commerce, cloud computing, public procurement of technology, payment technology and fintech solutions. Her work has ranged from helping launch healthtech platforms to advising gaming apps. While the e-commerce laws in India have undergone significant revisions in the past year, Shahana has assisted clients in launching several new products in compliance with these laws, including but not limited to short video products, services connecting small businesses with buyers, online event services, online marketplaces, etc.

Recently, she has led critical matters for her clients and thought leadership for the industry on the proposed data protection framework which resulted from the Srikrishna Expert Committee and the nation-wide consultations it held. Shahana has not only been instrumental in the formulation of the industry points of view to the proposed framework, she has also presented industry viewpoints on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 and has deposed before the Joint Parliamentary Committee set up to analyse and revise the proposed draft of the data protection bill in India. Further, she has advised domestic and international clients on technology product structuring and compliance in compliance with privacy laws and principles in India. Some of the key data protection projects she has advised on include workplace privacy and employee investigations, GPS data and location sharing, biometric data collection, Aadhaar-based authentication, targeted advertising and marketing, cloud computing, setting up data centers, digital product and enterprise solutions reviews and cross-border data transfers.

Shahana has also assisted social media clients in formulating content policies, engaging with the government on content liability rules and litigation strategy, assisting multinational clients on negotiating compliance with content regulation laws and law enforcement requests. Shahana is presently assisting clients in their engagements with the Committee of Experts on Non Personal Data Governance which is proposing a legal framework for the governance of non-personal data in India.

Finally, she has led the data protection and telecom aspects of some of the largest transactions in the field of technology in recent times, including transactions recognized as “star deals” in the India Business Law Journal Deals of the Year 2020.

 

Keita Fukunaga, Director, AlixPartners

Keita is an expert in economic analysis with regard to regulation and litigation matters such as antitrust, transfer pricing, and economic damages cases. He has more than 12 years' experience as a professional economist with involvement in many merger cases in various industries, among other regulation and litigation cases. He currently leads the legal and dispute consulting team at AlixPartners’ Tokyo office.

From April 2012 to March 2014, he led the economic analysis team of the merger division of the Japanese Fair Trade Commission, where he reviewed the merger submissions and conducted economic analyses in major merger cases as chief investigator.

As an economic consultant, he conducted economic analyses for private companies to identify crucial evidence in support of clients' claims. In cartels and other antitrust matters, Keita submitted economic analyses to the Japan Fair Trade Commission on behalf of involved companies in the construction goods, retail, and chemicals industries. In merger cases, he submitted economic analyses in the recent prominent cases including mergers between regional banks, a merger between digital platforms, the FamilyMart–UNY merger and the JX–TonenGeneral merger.

 

Daiske Yoshida, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP

Daiske Yoshida is a litigation partner at the Tokyo Office of Morrison & Foerster LLP.  He has extensive experience in cross-border litigation, arbitration and investigations in a wide range of industries, and specializes in advising clients on matters involving antitrust, anti-corruption, economic sanctions, and data privacy/security.  He has represented companies and individuals in administrative and criminal investigations in the US, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, South Korea, the UK, and the EU.  He writes and speaks frequently on topics relating to antitrust, anti-corruption, and corporate compliance.

Mr. Yoshida received his B.A. from University of Michigan in 1991, M.A. from Columbia University in 1992, J.D. from Fordham Law School in 1998, and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1998.  He relocated to Japan in 2006 and is qualified as a Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi. 

 

Yuichiro (Yu) Watanabe, Lead Counsel, Head of Legal at Airbnb Japan

Yu is Lead Counsel (formerly Senior Legal Counsel) and Head of the Legal Department at Airbnb Japan. He is the youngest person to have been named “In-House Lawyer of the Year” (at Japan Law Awards 2018 as well as 2020). He recently led ISO 31022:2020 in Japan, a new international legal risk management framework published in May 2020. Yu is a member of the Japan In-House Lawyers Association (JILA) serving as Deputy Secretary General and a Member of the Board.

 

 

Rudra Kumar Pandey, Partner, M&A and  General Corporate, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Rudra Pandey is an Equity Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. He has more than 17 years of experience in Corporate Commercial transactions and General Corporate advisory. Rudra has been very actively involved in various national and international deals. Rudra has been endorsed as a notable practitioner for financial and corporate laws by The International Financial Law Review 1000. His areas of expertise include corporate structuring, mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, delisting’s, private equity investments, joint ventures, real estate, banking and finance, project finance, corporate governance, establishment and management of funds (onshore and offshore).

Rudra is the lead member of the Japan Practice of the Firm, and has advised leading Japanese corporations on setting up and expanding their India operations, including strategic investments. Rudra has also worked with Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and Standard Chartered Bank on secondment.

Rudra is an active member of CII’s core group on Japan, China, Taiwan and UAE; CII’s Task Force on Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Corporate Laws, Private Equity and Ease of Doing Business in India; FICCI’s National Committee on Corporate Laws, National Committee on Stressed Assets and National Committee on Ease of Doing Business in India. Rudra has assisted CII and FICCI in preparing several reports and write-up on policy reforms and on ease of doing business in India.

Rudra has been part of working group constituted by DPIIT, the Government of India, in relation to new Industrial Policy and FDI Policy. His engagements include working with the Expert Committee constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on the decriminalisation of offences under Companies Act, 2013 & LLP Act, cost audit scenario in India, and amendments to the Companies Act, 2013, expert committee constituted by DPIIT and Invest India on Legal Reforms. Rudra is also working with Sub-committee on Improvement of Business Environment under India-Japan CEPA representing Indian industries and also understanding issues raised by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan; Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in India (JCCII) and KEIDANREN. Rudra also assisted METI in several research projects for investment by Japanese companies in India. Rudra has worked with KEIDANREN and interacted on behalf of KEIDANREN to resolve the sectoral and policy issues faced by Japanese companies in India.

Rudra has been a guest faculty at the Indian Business School, Hyderabad, India, a prominent business school of India. Rudra has also been a regular speaker at the conference organised by CII, FICCI and several other institutions.

 

Craig Shepherd, Partner, Tokyo, Head of Construction, Japan, Herbert Smith Freehills GJBJ

Craig has helped clients resolve some of the most high-profile disputes in Asia and the Middle East. He has 28 years of experience in arbitration and litigation in the infrastructure sector, 24 years of which have been spent in the firm's international offices solving clients' problems in challenging jurisdictions.

He regularly assists clients to resolve disputes over power and water projects, rail, oil and gas infrastructure and disputes under EPC contracts, off-take agreements, and concessions for all types of built asset.

 

James Allsop, Of Counsel, Dispute Resolution, Tokyo, Herbert Smith Freehills GJBJ

James' practice centres on advising Japanese and international clients in complex commercial disputes, primarily through international arbitration. He has acted as counsel and advocate in arbitrations under various institutional rules with seats across Asia and Europe. He also has extensive cross-border litigation experience in the English High Court and Appellate Courts.

James also assists clients with multi-jurisdictional fraud and corruption investigations, advising clients on anti-bribery and corruption matters, corporate governance and crisis management. He has particular experience in the manufacturing and industrials, TMT, pharmaceutical and consumer products sectors.

 

Joseph Fisher, Of Counsel, Corporate, Tokyo, Herbert Smith Freehills GJBJ

Joe specialises in M&A, and has extensive experience acting for a broad range of major Japanese companies. He advises on transactions in both developed and emerging markets, and across a wide range of sectors including manufacturing and industrials, consumer products, TMT and energy.

 

 

Takayuki Kitajima, General Counsel - Japan, Business Integrity Officer -Japan, Unilever Japan Holdings K.K.

Kitaji has been with Unilever since 2006 and joined Japan Leadership Team in 2012. He has been appointed as Representative Director of Unilever Japan Holdings K.K. in 2012. He was previously in Johnson & Jonson Japan, as Legal director and before that as Deputy General Manager of Japanese trading company. He was in Germany (2 years) and London (4.5 years) for the overseas assignment by Japanese trading company. From 2003-2013, he had lecture of International Trade Legal Practices in Japanese university.

He is also steering committee member of Japan International Corporate Counsels Association and Japan Chief Legal Officer Association which are associations for in-house legal lawyers.

 

Naveen Bhardwaj, Regional Senior Counsel, Terumo Asia Holdings Pte Ltd

Naveen Bhardwaj is Regional Senior Counsel for APAC at Terumo Asia Holdings Pte Ltd, the APAC regional headquarters Terumo Corporation, a global medical technology company from Japan, Japan. Naveen manages the legal and compliance function for APAC and is responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring Terumo’s Global Compliance Program in the APAC region (except China and Japan) for addressing bribery, unethical behaviour, data privacy related risks while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and other legal requirements. Naveen has more than 13 years of experience working in India, Japan and is now based in Singapore. Naveen is a qualified lawyer, with law degree (LL.B) from University of Delhi (India), a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP-I), and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

 

Shogo Osaka, Managing Director, Legal, North Pacific Region, FedEx Express

Shogo Osaka is Managing Director, Legal of FedEx Express, covering the North Pacific (NPAC) region consisted of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Guam.

From the Asia Pacific Headquarters in Hong Kong, Shogo is heading the team of diverse legal professionals located in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul who support the business and organization in the NPAC region on legal, compliance and employment matters.

Prior to joining FedEx, Shogo worked for Freshfields in the Shanghai and Tokyo offices where he assisted the Japanese and foreign clients' cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and various commercial transactions. In Tokyo he had also been seconded to Japan Bank for International Cooperation, a governmental financial institution, to support the petrochemical project financing, equity participations and export loans.

Shogo is admitted to practice law in Japan and a graduate of the University of Tokyo with the Bachelor of Laws and Master in Laws degrees.

 

Kai Draeger Mag.iur. LL.Cert., Rechtsanwalt (German attorney at law / ドイツ弁護士), Senior Counsel, Legal Group, TDK Corporation

Kai Draeger is Senior Counsel and manages one of the two legal teams of TDK Corporation's headquarter in Tokyo. He is admitted as attorney at law in Germany and oversees TDK's global legal operations in all areas of law with a strong focus on M&A, commercial, intellectual property, information law and data privacy. Educated and trained in Germany and the UK, Kai worked in an international law firm in Tokyo and Frankfurt from 2008 before he joined TDK Electronics AG in Germany in 2011. In 2018, he transferred to TDK's headquarter to reinforce the legal department and advise on global operations from Japan. Besides operative matters, his team focuses on the introduction of legal technology for contract drafting, review and execution.

 

Wise Wang, Senior Legal Counsel, ByteDance K.K.

Wise Wang is the Senior Legal Counsel responsible for ByteDance K.K.’s legal affairs. He joined ByteDance K.K. as the first in-house legal counsel and is the lead product counsel, covering various products of ByteDance K.K. (including the most downloaded short-movie platform in 2020, TikTok). 

Prior to joining ByteDance K.K., Wise worked for IBM, Deloitte as a business management consultant and served as a legal counsel for IT companies across industries (EC, Automobile, Entertainment, Payment services, and SaaS). As an in-house legal counsel at website analytics company, PLAID, Inc., he had played a substantial role in initiating its global IPO (Global offering), which was a rare case for Japan-based SaaS company. Combined with his diversified experiences in the business / legal fields and his multi-language skills, he provides unique and balanced legal services for one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

 

Shuhei Fujimura, Senior Ethics and Compliance Manager, Group Ethics and Compliance, Oxford University Press

Shuhei joined Oxford University Press (OUP) in October 2016 and has served in senior management with responsibilities including implementation of Corporate Compliance policies and anti-bribery, corruption, and fraud programs such as Third Party Business Partner Due Diligence, Gift & Hospitality, Ethical Marketing, Charitable Donation, High Risk Business Activity, Conflict of Interests, Modern Slavery, Facilitation of Tax Evasion, and Anti-Money Laundering. His regional coverages are wide, encompassing North East and South East Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

Prior to joining OUP, he worked as a Compliance and Forensic Specialist at Deloitte and EY (Ernst and Young) providing advisory services to multiple global institutions. He also has government regulatory experience from serving as a legal officer and immigration inspector at the Ministry of Justice in Japan for three and a half years following graduation from Keio University Law School.

 

Chie Hashimoto, Senior Legal Manager, Richemont Japan Ltd

Chie Hashimoto is the Senior Legal Manager at Richemont Japan Limited, a bi-lingual licensed attorney admitted in New York.

Obtained the LL.M. degree at William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, and joined Asia Pacific Leadership Program at East-West Center where she studied leadership capacity, emerging issues facing the Asia Pacific, and international relations.

Prior to joining Richemont Japan Limited, Chie worked for Dell Japan Inc. and Kering Japan Limited.

In a luxury conglomerate with multiple well-known brands, she is responsible for promoting synergies between brands and providing uniform legal services.

 

Masanao Hashimoto, Senior Regional Counsel and Compliance Officer, Japan, Stryker Japan K.K.

Masanao is Legal Head and Compliance Officer of Stryker Japan K.K. also serving as a member of Japan Leadership Team and Legal and Compliance Leadership Team for APAC region. Before joining Stryker, Masanao served as Legal and Compliance Head of Novartis Oncology, Legal Counsel in IBM Japan and Sojitz Corporation. Masanao received LL.M. from Northwestern University, J.D. from Toin Law School, and LL.B. from Hitotsubashi University.

 

Win Chuang, Attorney, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

Win Chuang works as an associate attorney, with a focus on advising foreign investors on the local legal framework. She supports Japanese and other international clients in assessing their legal risks, especially in the categories of corporate law, competition law and labor law. Having worked for Appier Inc. as its in-house legal counsel for several years, Win is also experienced in providing legal and policy advice to the technology industry.

 

Mika Chen, Attorney, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

Ms. Mika Chen entered Lee and Li after graduating from the LL.M program at National Chengchi University. Her core practice areas include foreign investment in Taiwan, M&A, corporate compliance, personal data protection, labor law and competition law. Mika specializes in advising Japanese companies for investing Taiwan, and she is active in providing legal services for all types of corporate and investment registration, global compliance consulting, and contract review and drafting. Furthermore, she also handles dispute settlement cases.

 

Paul Josef Lantz, Senior Managing Director & Global Chief Counsel, Public Markets, Manulife Investment Management. 

Paul Josef Lantz is Senior Managing Director & Global Chief Counsel, Public Markets, for Manulife Investment Management.  Based in Tokyo, he oversees teams in more than a dozen countries.  Paul came to Manulife from Deutsche Asset Management where he spent 4 years as Head of Compliance for Asia & MENA. Prior to that, Paul spent 6 years in Tokyo in senior compliance and legal positions for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Fidelity Investments. His early career included stints with USTR and the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., with Shearman & Sterling, and with a private Investment Manager in New York City and later, as partner of a private Investment Manager in Vancouver, Canada.  Education: B.A. University of Michigan; M.Sc., Georgetown University; J.D., University of Michigan Law School; LL.M., Cambridge University; Japan Government Scholarship, Chuo University.  He is a CFA and is admitted as an Attorney in New York and a CPA in Illinois. 

 

Takashi Kobayashi, Geographic Compliance & Corporate - Legal Lead, Japan

Takashi Kobayashi is the Legal Lead for Japan Geographic Compliance & Corporate of Accenture. He oversees compliance, regulatory and corporate governance issues in Japan. In addition to traditional compliance issues such as anti-corruption, data privacy and competition, he now focuses on ethical issues in new technologies such as AI.

Prior to joining Accenture in 2017, he was a senior associate of Freshfields’ Tokyo office　where he supported domestic and international clients in investigation, dispute and other compliance matters. He is a co-author of “Understanding to Global Arbitration” (Shoji-homu), “Understanding to Global Investigation” (Shoji-homu), “Legal and Risk Management for New Directors and Officers” (Shoji-homu) and others.

 

Natsue Ishida, SVP Legal & Compliance, UD Trucks Corporation

As the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, provides legal guidance and advice to the management and business divisions covering all company activities of UD Trucks in and outside of Japan.

Prior to UD Trucks, worked as the head of legal department at a major cosmetics company, medical device/electronics company and as a legal counsel for a major Japanese securities company in Tokyo.

Experience working in the United States and Europe in the areas of Global Data Protection and Global Transfer Pricing as a member of the international HQ of a large multinational accounting firm.

New York State Bar; Certified Information Privacy Professional