Profile and Expertise

While having overseen many civil, criminal, and administrative cases in legal aid organisations, Hiroki was engaged in issues of public interest such as child rights and statelessness, in cooperation with administrative agencies.
Subsequently, Hiroki moved to a law firm in Tokyo and was involved in a number of corporate disputes, including a lawsuit to claim for declaration of shareholder’s rights, lawsuit to claim for declaration to nullify the issuance of new shares, lawsuit to claim for dismissal of officers, lawsuit to claim for compensation for damages against officers, and petition for provisional disposition to suspend the execution of an officer’s duties.
Currently, Hiroki is specialised in the intellectual property field and handles general corporate legal affairs such as dispute settlement including litigation, M&A, and corporate law. In particular, he provides advice on filing of the trademark applications and the like; advice on intellectual property matters related to securitisation of patent rights, licensing, technology transfer, arts and entertainment, IT, contents, software, and system development; advice on intellectual property disputes related to patent rights, trademark rights, design rights, and copyrights in Japan and abroad, and litigation and arbitration under the Unfair Competition Prevention Law; and advice on the management of and protective measures for intellectual property including the management of employee inventions, trade secrets, and personal information.
Hiroki also focuses on medical issues, striving to address administrative issues and resolve medical care-related disputes.

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• ◆Litigation and Dispute Resolution◆
  ・Corporate litigation (e.g., actions seeking dismissal of directors, petitions for provisional injunctions to suspend directors' duties)
  ・Disputes over corporate control (e.g., shareholder rights confirmation actions, actions seeking invalidation of share issuance)
  ・M&A-related litigation (e.g., claims for damages based on breach of representations and warranties)
  ・Intellectual property litigation (e.g., trademark infringement injunction lawsuits)
  ・Tax litigation (e.g., actions to nullify administrative dispositions, state compensation claims)
  ・Other matters including labor disputes, real estate litigation, traffic accident cases, insolvency proceedings, and claims for disclosure of sender information
  
  ◆Other Legal Services◆
  ・Legal advice on M&A, corporate reorganization, and business succession
  ・Advice and dispute resolution in the entertainment and intellectual property industries
  ・Legal support and dispute resolution related to publishing and performing arts
  ・Legal advice and dispute resolution concerning IT and system development
  ・Legal advice and dispute resolution for medical and health tech businesses
  ・Compliance and advisory services regarding administrative regulations such as the Subcontract Act, Freelance Protection Act, Antimonopoly Act, Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, and the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Act
  
  

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    Theories on Organizational Negligence, co-authored, published in Legal Practice Research, No. 30 (March 2015)

    
    
  
  
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    Revised and Expanded Edition: Civil Code Reform Explained by Lawyers for Lawyers, co-authored, published by Dai-Ichi Hōki (January 2018)

    
    
  
  
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    Introduction to Labor Disputes [Dismissal, Overtime Pay, Collective Bargaining, Work-Related Accidents], Revised Edition, co-authored, published by Hōritsu Jōhō Shuppan (March 2021)

    
    
  
  
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    A Legal Study on Issues Surrounding Reverse Engineering, Master’s Thesis (January 2023)

    
    
  
  
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    Manual for Handling Problematic Real Estate, co-authored, published by Shin Nihon Hōki (May 2023)

    
    
  
  
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    Practical Guide to Public Employee Labor Disputes, co-authored, to be published by Gyōsei (September 2024)

    
    
  
  

• ・2016: Instructor for training program for government officials
  ・2017: Special guest lecture, Department of Community Studies, Hamamatsu Gakuin University
  ・2024: Startup Support Seminar in Hokkaido, hosted by the Japan Patent Attorneys Association