MORI Shunsuke
- Title
- Counsel
- Telephone Number
- +81-3-3214-6246
- E-mail address
- shunsuke.mori@iwatagodo.com
Career Summary
- October 1985
- Born in Tokyo, Japan
- March 2004
- Graduated from Hachiojihigashi High School
- March 2008
- Received his LL.B. from Hitotsubashi University
- March 2010
- Received his J.D. from the Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law
- December 2011
- Received his Diploma from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (New 64th)
- December 2011
- Registered as a Japanese attorney
- January 2012
- Joined Nishimura & Asahi
- June 2013
- Joined Nijubashi Partners
- October 2016
- Joined Iwata Godo
Engaged Cases
M&A, MBO, proxy fight and corporate governance; lawsuit, non-litigation cases, civil preservation cases and dispute settlements, including commercial matters; investigation on unlawful acts and risk management; general corporate legal practices under the Companies Act, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, labor laws, etc.
-J-REIT fund company: Chairman of the risk compliance committee of external experts (2015)
-Listed company: Proxy fight over control of the company (company side) (2015)
-Post-merger integration through transfer of shares between listed companies (2014-2015)
-Case of determination of stock purchase price of shares with restriction on transfer (Osaka District Court Judgment dated July 16, 2015, 1478 Kinyu-shoji Hanrei 26) (designated purchaser side) (2013-2015)
-Listed company: Proxy fight over control of the company (shareholder side) (2014)
-Listed company: Acquisition of shares in its competitor (acquired company side) (2013-2014)
-Case of determination of the stock purchase price in relation to squeeze-out (Decision of the First Petty Bench of the Supreme Court, July 1, 2016, 1497 Kinyu-shoji Hanrei 8) (investors side) (2013-2016)
-Securities lawsuit related to false statements contained in annual securities reports (investors side) (2013-2016)
-Embezzlement by an employee of its second-tier subsidiary of a listed company: Investigation and acting as a representative in filing a complaint to the Metropolitan Police Department (2013)
-Listed company’s retroactive corrections of securities report: Investigation and liaison with the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (2012)
-Cartel case involving constructions of power lines: Investigation and liaison with the Fair Trade Commission (2012-2013)
-Cartel case involving auto parts: Investigation and liaison with the Fair Trade Commission (2012-2013)
Message
I would like to sincerely deal with and persistently solve legal issues to accurately understand and meet business needs of our clients.
List of Main Publications
・ “Practical Measures for General Meetings of Shareholders Held by Listed Companies through Convocation of Shareholders” (co-author, August 25, 2020 issue of Shoji Homu No. 2239 , 2020)
-“Appropriateness of Concurrent Appointment between the President of Bank Holding Company and the President and CEO of its Subsidiary Bank” (co-author, April 10, 2020 issue of Kinyu Houmu Jijo)
-“Index of Judicial Precedents for Shareholder’s Meeting” (co-author, Shoji Homu Co., Ltd., January 2019)
-“Q&A on Amendment to Law of Obligations – Fully Adapt to the Changes in Financial Business Practice” (co-author, Banking Education Co. Ltd., 2018)
-“Theories and Business Practices of Prescription and Limitation of Period” (co-author, Nihon Kajo Publishing, 2018)
-“Legal Advice on Corporate Governance” (co-author, Seirin Shoin, October 2016)
-“Accessible Introduction to the Companies Act” (co-author, Business Kyoiku Shuppansha, June 2015)
-“Questions and Answers: the Companies Act as Amended in 2014 (Second Edition)” (co-author, Kinzai Institute For Financial Affairs, Inc., April 2015)
-“Development of Internal Rules under the Companies Act as Amended in 2014 Part IV” (co-author, Shoji Homu Vol. 370, January 2015 issue)
-“Development of Internal Rules under the Companies Act as Amended in 2014 Part III” (co-author, Shoji Homu Vol. 366, September 2014 issue)
-“Revisions Concerning Protection of Minority Shareholders (included in “Special Feature: The Companies Act as Amended and Questions and Answers of Relevant Business Practices” (co-author, Kinyu Houmu Jijo No.2002, September 2014)
-“History of Companies Laws (included in the 2000th commemoration issue for “Development, Challenges and Prospects of Legal Practices Concerning Financial Transactions –Part I Looking Back” (co-author, Kinyu Houmu Jijo No.2000, August 2014)
-“Questions and Answers: the Companies Act as Amended in 2014” (co-author, Kinzai Institute For Financial Affairs, Inc., July 2014)
-“News Commentary- What Will Happen to Squeeze-Out under Amended Companies Act?” (co-author, Zeimu Koho Vol.62 No.7, July 2014)
-“Introduction to Compliance-Related Practical Affairs Part XIII – Collective Bargaining with Labor Union for Businesses including SMEs” (Toki Joho Vol.622 [September 2013 issue], Kinzai Institute For Financial Affairs, Inc.)
Publications
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2020.09Publications
Yamada Kohei, Tomita Yusuke, Mori Shunsuke, Suzuki Misato,Motomura Takeshi, and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.736," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2242.
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2020.09Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "The Japan Fair Trade Commission Approved the Commitment Plan Submitted by Amazon Japan G.K. - Trend of Regulations on Major IT Companies" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2020.08Publications
Ito Hiroki, Mori Shunsuke, and Fukatsu Haruno co-authored "Practical Measures for General Meetings of Shareholders Held by Listed Companies through Convocation of Shareholders" which appears in Shoji Home No. 2239 (August 25, 2020 issue).
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- ITO Hiroki MORI Shunsuke FUKATSU Haruno
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2020.08Publications
Yamada Kohei, Mori Shunsuke, Suzuki Misato, Tomita Yusuke, Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.735," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2239.
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2020.06Publications
Mori Shunsuke, Suzuki Misato, Tomita Yusuke, Yamada Kohei, Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.733," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2234.
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2020.05Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "Japan Business Federation Announces a Tentative Form of Notice to Convene Annual Shareholders' Meeting in Consideration of the Spread of New Coronavirus Infectious Disease" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2020.05Publications
Tomita Yusuke and Mori Shunsuke co-authored the article titled "Appropriateness of Concurrent Appointment between the President of Bank Holding Company and the President and CEO of its Subsidiary Bank" which appears on April 10, 2020 issue of Kinyu Homu Jijo.
- Author：
- TOMITA Yusuke MORI Shunsuke
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2020.04Publications
Mori Shunsuke,Yamada Kohei, Suzuki Misato, Tomita Yusuke,Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.731," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2229.
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2020.03Publications
Suzuki Misato, Tomita Yusuke,Yamada Kohei, Mori Shunsuke, Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.730," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2226.
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2020.02Publications
Suzuki Misato, Yamada Kohei,Tomita Yusuke, Mori Shunsuke, Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.729," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2223.
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2020.01Publications
Yamada Kohei, Suzuki Misato, Tomita Yusuke, Mori Shunsuke, Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.728," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2220.
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2019.12Publications
Okubo Naoki, Yoshihara Tomomichi, Mori Shunsuke, Tomita Yusuke and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.727," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2218.
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2019.12Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Formulates 'Contract Guidance on Utilization of AI and Data ver. 1.1'" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2019.10Publications
Yoshihara Tomomichi, Mori Shunsuke, Tomita Yusuke, Okubo Naoki and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.725," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2212.
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2019.09Publications
Yoshihara Tomomichi, Okubo Naoki,Mori Shunsuke, Tomita Yusuke and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.724," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2210.
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2019.08Publications
Yoshihara Tomomichi, Okubo Naoki,Mori Shunsuke, Tomita Yusuke and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.723," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2207.
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2019.08Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "The Japan Fair Trade Commission Issues Cease and Desist Order to Combi Co., Ltd." is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2019.07Publications
Mori Shunsuke, Yoshihara Tomomichi, Okubo Naoki,Tomita Yusuke and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.722," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2205.
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2019.05Publications
Okubo Naoki,Mori Shunsuke,Tomita Yusuke, Yoshihara Tomomichi,and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.720," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2199.
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2019.04Publications
Tomita Yusuke, Okubo Naoki, Yoshihara Tomomichi, Mori Shunsuke and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.719," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2197.
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2019.03Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) Releases Summary Report of GPIF's Stewardship Activities in 2017" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2019.03Publications
Mori Shunsuke, Tomita Yusuke, Okubo Naoki, Beppu Fumiya, Yoshihara Tomomichi and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.718," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2194.
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2019.02Publications
Tomita Yusuke, Mori Shunsuke,Beppu Fumiya, Okubo Naoki, Yoshihara Tomomichi and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.717," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2191.
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2019.01Publications
Beppu Fumiya, Mori Shunsuke, Okubo Naoki, Tomita Yusuke,Yoshihara Tomomichi and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.716," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2188.
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2019.01Publications
Motomura Takeshi, Tomita Yusuke, Mori Shunsuke and Yamada Kohei co-authored the publication entitled "Index of Judicial Precedents for Shareholder's Meeting" which is published by Shoji Homu Co., Ltd.
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2019.01Publications
Motomura Takeshi, Yoshihara Tomomichi, Okushi Kenichi, Matsubara Takahiro, Mori Shunsuke and other lawyers' commentary article on a judgment rendered by the Tokyo High Court on October 31, 2018 regarding a case in which they represented a real-estate company as plaintiff and claims for damages equivalent to the lost rent and attorneys’ fees were accepted based on the legal principles of negligence in concluding a contract and on the original decision rendered by the Tokyo District Court on March 29, 2018 (regarding a case where a tenant candidate was found to be liable for damages based on negligence in concluding a contract regarding its refusal of executing a contract) appears in the Kinyu Shoji Hanrei No. 1557.
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2018.12Publications
Tomita Yusuke,Yoshihara Tomomichi,Mori Shunsuke and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.715," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2186.
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2018.11Publications
Mori Shunsuke,Tomita Yusuke,Yoshihara Tomomichi and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.714," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2183.
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2018.11Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "The Companies Act Subcommittee (regarding Corporate Governance, etc.) of the Legislative Council Discusses Proposed Outline (Interim Proposal) for Revisions to the Companies Act (regarding Corporate Governance, etc.)" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2018.10Publications
Motomura Takeshi supervised and Ito Hiroki and Mori Shunsuke authored the 5th article of the series "Introduction Course for Newly Appointed Auditors: Authority, Responsibility, and Response for Misconduct" titled "Auditors' Obligation and Responsibility, etc." which appears in the November 2018 issue of a monthly magazine, Gekkan Kansayaku.
- Author：
- ITO Hiroki MORI Shunsuke
- Supervising editor：
- MOTOMURA Takeshi
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2018.09Publications
Mori Shunsuke,Yoshihara Tomomichi,Motomura Takeshi and Tomita Yusuke co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.712," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2178.
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2018.09Publications
A book authored by our lawyers entitled "Q&A on Amendment to Law of Obligations - Fully Adapt to the Changes in Financial Business Practice" (recommended by Hosomizo Kiyoshi, special advisor of Iwata Godo and former Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency) is published by Banking Education Co. Ltd.
- The author and editor：
- MOTOMURA Takeshi SATO Shuji KASHIWAGI Kensuke
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2018.08Publications
Mori Shunsuke,Yoshihara Tomomichi,Motomura Takeshi and Tomita Yusuke co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.711," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2175.
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2018.08Publications
Motomura Takeshi supervised and Ito Hiroki and Mori Shunsuke authored the 2nd article of the series "Introduction Course for Newly Appointed Auditors: Authority, Responsibility, and Response for Misconduct" titled "Auditors' Duty and Authority, etc." which appears in the August 2018 issue of a monthly magazine, Gekkan Kansayaku.
- Author：
- ITO Hiroki MORI Shunsuke
- Supervising editor：
- MOTOMURA Takeshi
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2018.07Publications
Mori Shunsuke,Tomita Yusuke,Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.710," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2173.
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2018.07Publications
A book authored by our lawyers entitled "Theories and Business Practices of Prescription and Limitation of Period" is published by Nihon Kajo Publishing Co., Ltd.
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- KASHIWAGI Kensuke EIGUCHI Manabu ITO Hiroki AOKI Shinji MUTOU Yuuki ITO Nanako FUJIWARA Hiroki MATSUDA Akira TOKUMARU Daisuke MATSUBARA Takahiro MARUYAMA Shinji KAKUNO Shu TOMITA Yusuke UENISHI Takuya KUDO Ryohei BEPPU Fumiya MORI Shunsuke KARASAWA Akira SAITO Hiroki HAZAMA Hiroyoshi YAMADA Kohei HORITA Koji SUZUKI Tomohiro NAKAMURA Saeko SASAKI Tomoo YU Zhiming Landry GUESDON
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2018.06Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "Consumer Affairs Agency Announces Promulgation of 'the Act for Partial Amendments of the Consumer Contract Act'" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2018.06Publications
Mori Shunsuke,Uenishi Takuya,Motomura Takeshi,Tomita Yusuke and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.709," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2170.
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2018.05Publications
Mori Shunsuke,Uenishi Takuya,Tomita Yusuke,Motomura Takeshi and Yoshihara Tomomichi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.708," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2167.
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2018.04Publications
Uenishi Takuya,Tomita Yusuke,Sato Takaki,Mori Shunsuke,Yoshihara Tomomichi and Motomura Takeshi co-authored "Shin Shoji Hanrei Binran No.707," which appears in Shoji Homu No. 2165.
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2018.02Publications
Toji Yoshihiro, Ito Hiroki, Mori Shunsuke and Yamada Kohei co-authored an article entitled "Points to be Noted toward Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2018" which appears in featured articles "Practical Measures to be Taken for 2018 Shareholders' Meeting (1)” in Shoji Homu No. 2159.
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2018.02Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) Releases Summary Report of GPIF's Stewardship Activities in 2017" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2017.09Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Submits a Report Concerning the 'Outline of Proposed Laws and Regulations to be Established in Relation to Promotion of the Work Style Reform'" is available on the Shoji Homu Por
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2017.06Publications
A book by our office entitled "Q&A Regarding Amendments to the Civil Code Having Influence on Financial Business Practice -Law of Obligations, Handling of Deposits and Guarantee Business Will be Changed-" (recommended by Hosomizo Kiyoshi, special advisor of Iwata Godo and former Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency) is published by Banking Education Co. Ltd.
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2017.03Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "METI Publishes Results of 'Fact Finding Survey of Enterprises' Management of Trade Secrets'" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
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2016.11Shoji Homu Portal
Mori Shunsuke's commentary titled "JFTC Invites Public Comments on Proposal for Revision to "Guidelines for the Act against Delay in Payment of Subcontract Proceeds, Etc. to Subcontractors"" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MORI Shunsuke
Lectures, Seminars and Conferences
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2019.02
Ito Hiroki, Kakuno Shu, Mori Shunsuke and Yamada Kohei delivered a lecture titled "Commentary on the Guidelines for Corporate Law Review (regarding Corporate Governance, etc.)" at Marunouchi Hall & Conference Square.
Speaker： ITO Hiroki KAKUNO Shu MORI Shunsuke YAMADA Kohei
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2018.03
Ito Hiroki, Kakuno Shu, Mori Shunsuke and Yamada Kohei jointly delivered a lecture entitled "Seminar on Interim Proposal Concerning the Revision of Corporate Law System (Related to Corporate Governance, etc.)" at Iwata Godo.
Speaker： ITO Hiroki KAKUNO Shu MORI Shunsuke YAMADA Kohei
News
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2016.10
We welcomed new attorneys, Ito Nanako and Mori Shunsuke.