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LAWYERS

TANAKA Takashi

TANAKA Takashi

Title
Partner
Languages
Japanese (native)/English

Career Summary

December 1979
Born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
March 1998
Graduated from Taki Senior High School
March 2004
Received his LL.B. from Faculty of Law, Kyoto University
September 2005
Received his Diploma from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (58th)
October 2005
Registered as a Japanese attorney and joined Takahashi Shozo Law Office
August 2013
Joined TMI Associates
June 2014
Joined Iwata Godo

Engaged Cases

Litigation/dispute resolution
  Financial litigation, energy-related litigation, real estate litigation, environmental litigation, product liability litigation, other civil and commercial litigation, extra-judicial dispute resolution, and support for overseas litigation

Banking
  Advice on banking services in general, such as deposit, loan transactions, and debt collection

Infrastructure and energy
  Advice on electricity generation, transmission and distribution, and retail businesses, gas pipeline, gas retail, and heat supply businesses

Corporate
  M&A, organizational restructuring/business alliance, governance, internal controls and corporate organizational design, shareholders’ meetings, and other general corporate affairs matters

Transactions and product safety
  Transactions of automobile parts and other products, business alliance, product defects, market action and response to accidents, handling matters in the field of competition laws, environmental laws, and other regulations


Mr. Tanaka has involved in a number of dispute resolution cases, including disputes over several tens of billions yen, large class actions, disputes on complex product defects, injunctions on facilities essential to business, and cases that affect corporate reputation.
While it is of course important to lead lawsuits to appropriate resolution and to protect the legitimate interests of companies, in many cases, companies wish to resolve disputes that do not result in litigation. He will work to resolve disputes while building strategies both in- and out-of-court litigation that suit the company’s business activities and the actual state of incidents, including negotiations outside litigation.
In addition, in response to the legal issues that companies face on a daily basis, he supports corporate decision-making and business operations by presenting solutions with an understanding of the business activities and ways of doing business that are unique to each field, such as finance, electricity, gas and automobiles.
Before Mr. Tanaka joined Iwata Godo, he worked at a law office in Nagoya City for about eight years. Accordingly, he continues to provide legal services not only to companies in the Tokyo metropolitan area but also to many companies in the Tokai region.

Professional Memberships

Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association

List of Main Publications

“6,000 Lectures on Legal Issues for Financial Institutions” (co-author, Kinzai Institute For Financial Affairs, 2022)
"Q&A: Family affairs cases and banking services" Second edition (co-author, Nihon Kajo Publishing Co., Ltd. 2020)
“Preparation for Amendment to Civil Code: Points for Drafting Contracts” (co-author, Shoji Houmu, 2018)
“5,000 Lectures on Legal Issues for Financial Institutions” (co-author, Kinzai Institute For Financial Affairs, 2018)
“New Story of Shareholders' Meeting” (co-author, Shoji Houmu, 2017)
“Commercial Judicial Precedent which Adds Color to the Period” (co-author, Shoji Houmu, 2015)

Publications

News

  • 2022.01

    Karashima Satoshi, Tanaka Takashi, Ito Nanako, Maruyama Shinji and Karasawa Akira were appointed Partners.

  • 2016.06

    Ueda Atsushi, Tanaka Takashi represented a bank in a case at the Tokyo High Court and a commentary article on its judicial decision made on April 28, 2016 (the decision retaining the conclusion of the Saitama District Court's decision made on October 2, 2015 and rejecting the assertion of the credit guarantee corporation which provided credit guarantee to the bank that, in the case where the main debtor is an anti-social force, the guarantee agreement should be exempted on grounds of invalidity due to miscomprehension and a breach of duty to investigate) appears in the Kinyu Shoji Hanrei No. 1493.

  • 2016.05

    Ueda Atsushi, Tanaka Takashi represented a bank in a case at the Tokyo High Court and a commentary article on its judicial decision made on April 14, 2016 (the decision negating the bank's breach of duty to investigate, as a trial remanded from the Supreme Court by its judicial decision on January 12, 2016 holding that, in the case where a financial institution made a loan guaranteed by a credit guarantee corporation to a debtor who afterwards turned out to be an anti-social force, (i) the credit guarantee corporation's contention of invalidity of the guarantee agreement on the grounds of miscomprehension cannot be admitted, and (ii) when the financial institution is recognized to commit a breach of duty to investigate whether the main debtor is an anti-social force or not, the credit guarantee corporation's guarantee obligation will be exempted due to the financial institution's breach of the guarantee agreement) appears in the Kinyu Shoji Hanrei Vol. 1491

  • 2015.11

    Ueda Atsushi, Tanaka Takashi represented a bank in a case at the Saitama District Court and its commentary article on the judicial decision made on October 2, 2015 (the decision rejected an assertion of the invalidity of declaration of intention on the ground of miscomprehension made by Japan Federation of Credit Guarantee Corporations, who provided the bank with credit guarantee, for the case that the main debtor was an entity associated with antisocial forces) appeared in the Financial and Business Law Precedents Vol. 1478.

  • 2014.06

    We welcomed a new attorney, Tanaka Takashi.