Profile and Expertise

Yusuke has extensive and long-time experience in international projects, especially in Southeast Asia mostly in Indonesia, and Malaysia. He handles a wide range of international construction agreements, sales and purchase agreements, dispute resolution, and pullout of business. With the experience of r both in headquarters in Japan and subsidiaries overseas, he can work with client with comprehending the business needs and the decision-making process of the clients.
Working for about 12 years in a major Japanese plant and engineering company, he has experience in numerous overseas plant construction projects, mainly involving negotiating a plant construction agreement (EPC Agreement) in South-East Asia. During a three-year secondment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he negotiated investment arbitration treaties (investment agreements). In 2018, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (LLM), USA, then spent the next year working at the US headquarter of a major Japanese construction company before working for the legal department of a major general trading company (so called “sôgô shôsha”). In January 2023, Yusuke joined One Asia Lawyers and is now working for general cross-border matters with a focus on Indonesia and Malaysia.
(*He is not qualified to practice Japanese law and is not registered as a foreign lawyer in Japan.)

• Experience
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• 【International Project/International Dispute Resolution】
  - Contract negotiations for construction of an factory by a major Japanese company in Indonesia.
  - Contract negotiations for a major Japanese company to build a fragrance factory in Indonesia.
  - Supporting a major Japanese company to pull out of a joint venture in Indonesia
  - Review of a referral agreement concluded by a subsidiary of a major Japanese company in insurance sector in Indonesia.
  - Review of a letter of guarantee submitted for subsidiaries of a major Japanese company in Indonesia and China.
  - Review of a joint development agreement concluded between a major Japanese company and a partner company (French company) for the development of a solar power plant in Kenya (total project cost: approximately JPY 5 billion)
  - Review of an agreement for a major Japanese company's sales of drilling equipment to the USA.
  - Review of a construction agreement for building a water treatment facility in Jordan by a major Japanese company.
  - Negotiation for extension of delivery date based on a construction agreement (approximately JPY 5 billion) in Iraq by a major Japanese company.
  - Supporting an arbitration matter (ad hoc, place of arbitration: India) raised to a major Japanese company based on an electric power purchase agreement.
  - Participation as a negotiation team member representing the Government of Japan in negotiation for the conclusion of investment arbitration treaties (investment agreements) with Iran, the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar.
  
  【Domestic Project/Dispute Resolution】
  - Review of a sales and purchase agreement of biomass fuel between major Japanese companies.
  - Supporting a major Japanese company in litigation with its client in Japan in relation to the termination of a long-term agreement.
  
  【Compliance, labor matters and others】
  - Handled personal information leakage cases.
  - Organized Internal prevention system of personal information leakage.
  - Handled cases concerning subcontract act.
  - Restructuring of dispatched workers.
  - Handled cases concerning worker dispatch act.

• 2024/10/25Personal Data Protection Law in Indonesia – Prepare for the coming Implementation Regulation (3) ＝Processing of Personal Data＝

  2024/03/13Venture Capital Firms (PMV) in Indonesia: Amendment of FSA Regulations (FSA Regulations 25/2023)

  2024/05/15Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Open AI, Sam Altman and others (Elon Musk v. Sam Altman, 2024)

  2024/04/19The EU AI Act – Prepare for the coming EU Regulation –

  2024/01/17Government Regulation No. 36/2021 on Wages (Minimum Wages) / Amended by Government Regulation No. 51/2023

  2023/11/15Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Law: Prepare for the coming Implementation Regulation (2) =Cross Border Transfer=

  2023/10/13Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Law: Prepare for the coming Implementation Regulation (1)

  2023/08/17Stamp Duty on Electronic Contracts in Indonesia

  2023/07/18The Constitutional Court ruled that the Authority over the Tax Court shall be transferred from the Ministry of Finance to the Supreme Court

  2023/06/12New Merger Filing Rule in Indonesia

  2023/03/14Perppu 2/2022, A Few More Steps to Become the Law/Undang-Undang

  2023/02/17The New Criminal Code/Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Pidana (“KUHP”) Passed