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Attorney at LawTakashi MOCHIZUKI
Takashi Mochizuki has extensive experience in Japanese court practice and international arbitration. He also plays an active role in the area of intellectual properties (mainly Copyright law).After graduating Georgetown University Law Center, Takashi has worked as an in-house legal intern at AS America, Inc. d/b/a American Standard Brands and experienced a wide variety of legal issues. He has worked with Commercial General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer and assisted their work including but not limited to contract reviews, establishing contract management procedure, establishing third party compliance procedure, compliance violation investigation case and other general corporate matters. Leveraging such an experience. Takashi now provides legal advice and services on not only Japanese domestic issues but also from a global perspective. In addition, Takashi has experience handling several inbound M&A cases. Since he has lived in the U.S. for a total of 10 years, he works comfortably with clients in Japanese and English.
| March 2002 | Sophia University (LL.B.) |
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| March 2008 | Keio University Law School (J.D.) |
| December 2009 | Admitted to the Japanese Bar and joined TRC |
| May 2016 - July 2017 | Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. in International Business and Economic Law) |
| September 2016 | AS America, Inc. d/b/a American Standard Brands (Legal Intern) |
| July 2017 | Admitted to the New York Bar |
| September 2017 | Returned and resume working at TRC |
Industry Sectors of Main Clients
Manufacturing companies, Computer and video game software development companies・Amusement and commercial facility management companies, Information and Technology companies, E-commerce companies
Main Practice Areas
- Litigation / Dispute resolution（Civil litigation, Commercial litigation, Commercial non-contentious case procedures, Arbitration and other Alternative dispute resolution procedures）／Corporate matters（M&A, Restructuring of organization, Corporate governance, Shareholders’ meeting）／Intellectual Property Rights・Information（Copyrights, Trademark rights, License transactions, Patent disputes and other IP disputes, Protection of personal information, Information and Technologies/ Telecommunications）／International Affairs（International M&A, International arbitration, Drafting and reviewing contracts, Cross-border domestic-relations cases）／Competition law（Antitrust law, Unfair competition prevention act, Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, Subcontract law）
Principal Activities
| May 2012 – March 2014 | Member of The Copyright Law Association of Japan |
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| April 2011 – March 2014 | Member of The Special Committee on Civil Litigation, Tokyo Bar Association |
Principal Publications
- “Practical Measures for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2020 in Light of the Coronavirus Infection” (Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc., 2020)
- “Transaction Counterparties and Finance Practice (Revised Edition)” (Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc., 2013) (co-author)
- “Lawyers’ Practice in Civil Procedure II Arrangement of the Issues” (Seirin Shoin.,2011) (co-author)
Principal Seminars
- “Protection of Personal Information” February, 2022
- “Training for person in charge of Contact Point of Whistle-blowing System“ December, 2021
- “Outline of Whistle-blowing System and How should the Contact Point Handle the Case” November, 2021
- “Protection of Personal Information” Feburary, 2021
- “How to Protect the Copyrights of the Web Contents” January, 2021
- “Every three years review of Act on the Protection of Personal Information and legislation of harassment prevention measures” February, 2020
- “Regulation regarding the Block Chain” April, 2019