Etsuko Hara is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and also teaching at the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. Her practice focuses on the areas of antitrust law and corporate transactions.
Ms. Hara has extensive experience advising on antitrust cases as well as inbound and outbound transactions, including cross-border distribution, licence and franchise agreements and other corporate transactions. She regularly handles multi-jurisdictional merger filings and advises on various antitrust issues with regard to the transactions, including complex contract arrangements such as alliances between competitors, and vertical antitrust issues.
Ms. Hara also advises on international and domestic cartel cases, and has assisted clients on cartel investigations by the JFTC and foreign competition authorities, leniency applications and private actions.
Ms. Hara is a graduate of Columbia Law School (LLM) and the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1998), and is admitted as a lawyer in Japan and New York. She recently co-authored Japanese Anti-monopoly Act - Annotated (Edition 2) (KOUBUNDOU Publishers Inc., 2022) and Introduction to Japanese Business Law & Practice Fifth Edition (2021).
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Etsuko Hara's expertise in franchising law focuses on competition matters, particularly licensing matters. She often assists international clients in establishing a business presence in Japan.