Atsushi Yamada is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune focusing on competition/antitrust law. His practice covers all aspects of competition/antitrust law assisting clients in investigations by competition authorities (cartels/dominance/unfair trade practices), representation in courts and tribunals challenging decisions made by competition authorities, follow-on civil litigation, and merger filings. He also provides advice relating to structuring new businesses and compliance programmes. His clients include both multinational and Japanese companies in various industries, such as information technology, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, construction, transportation, financial institutions and trading houses.
Prior to joining Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, he has worked at the Tokyo office of a US law firm and a local Japanese firm after serving as a judge at the Tokyo District Court as well as other courts. With such background, Mr. Yamada has extensive experience in litigation and general corporate matters. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer for antitrust law at Hitotsubashi University (School of Law).
He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1994) and Cornell Law School (LLM, 2003), and is admitted to the Bars of Japan (2005) and New York (2013).
His recent publications include co-authoring the "Japan: Cartels" chapter in the GCR Asia-Pacif...
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Peers and clients highly recommend Atsushi Yamada for his competition law expertise. He assists his clients from a variety of sectors, including pharma, tech, and construction, in authorities investigations and represents them in courts.