Profile and Expertise

After being admitted to the bar, Tomoyoshi worked at a boutique law firm specialising in cross border investment disputes with China for 8 years. There he mainly dealt with cases concerning China, and moved to Shanghai in 2010, and became a head partner in 2013. He specialised in advising clients on investment and expansions into China and the rest of Asia, as well as labour, tax and security issues while cooperating with local Chinese lawyers.
After leaving the firm in 2015, he went to the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he obtained his Master’s Degree (LLM) .
After graduating from NUS in 2016, he participated in the establishment of One Asia Lawyers Group. Since then, he has been based in Singapore and has been involved in a wide range of cross-border M&A transactions, mainly in Southeast Asia and China, as well as labour, intellectual property, compliance and other general corporate legal matters, and international divorce and inheritance cases involving Singapore. He has lectured and written extensively on matters relating to privacy legislation　in Singapore and other Asian countries. In 2023, he obtained the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E), a European qualification for privacy professionals.

• Experience
• Publications
• Seminars
• Newsletter

• ＜M&A・Corporate matter＞
  ● Acquisition of a shipping company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of a land transportation company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of an internet (mobile) payment company in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand
  ● An acquisition of an internet payment company in Singapore and the Philippines
  ● Acquisition of an AI-based payment company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of an AI-based marketing company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of an HR software development company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of a virtual currency exchange company in Singapore and Japan
  ● Acquisition of an advertising company in Singapore and Malaysia
  ● Acquisition of a painting company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of a construction equipment rental company in Singapore and Malaysia
  ● Acquisition of a car rental and leasing company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of a recruitment firm in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of a recruitment firm in Singapore, Japan, the U.S., China (Shanghai), Hong Kong, Australia and the UAE
  ● Acquisition of an electronics manufacturer in Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia
  ● Acquisition of a beverage manufacturer in Singapore and Vietnam
  ● Acquisition of a food processing company in Singapore
  ● Acquisition of an educational institution in Singapore
  ● A sales of a retailer in Singapore and Japan
  ● A sales of a food and beverage company in Singapore
  ● An investment in a labor service start-up company in Singapore and the Philippines
  ● Facilitating a joint venture between a major Japanese real estate company and a Chinese state-owned enterprise
  ● Facilitating a joint venture between a major Japanese entertainment company and a Chinese company
  ● Assisting the expansion of a Japanese finance company into China (including negotiating with governmental authorities for exemptions from certain regulations)
  ● Assisting the investment by Japanese company to a Chinese online retail company
  ● Facilitating a joint venture between a major Japanese manufacturing company and a major private Chinese enterprise (competition law related)
  ● Assisting collaboration between a Japanese and Chinese tertiary education providers
  ● Facilitating the termination of a joint venture between a Japanese manufacturer and a Chinese state-owned enterprise, including financial settlements
  ● Corporate restructuring for a local subsidiary of a Japanese company
  
  ＜Compliance matter＞
  ● Preparing and reviewing internal rules for the protection of Personal Information in Singaporean companies
  ● Preparation and review of internal regulations for anti-bribery, anti-harassment, and whistle-blower protection for Singaporean companies, etc.
  ● Various in-house seminars related to the above
  
  ＜Labor Law matter＞
  ● Preparation and review of employment contracts and employment regulations for Singaporean companies, etc.
  ● Support for termination of employment for a Singaporean company
  ● Assisting the dissolution of a Chinese local subsidiary of a major Japanese manufacturing company, and arbitration of labour disputes arising thereof
  ● Action for the purchase price by a Japanese company against a Chinese company
  ● Assisting several Japanese companies in China with the amendment of company rules and regulations to comply with the major alterations in labour laws in China
  
  ＜Others＞
  ● Regulatory investigations in Southeast Asia, China and other countries
  ● Recovery of unpaid accounts against a Singaporean company
  ● Litigation case against a Chinese company for collection of accounts receivable
  ● Several other cases, including setting up companies in Asia, offering advice on day-to-day operations of Japanese companies established abroad, marriage settlements, cross-border inheritance procedures
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• ● 「Q&A Personal Information Protection Regulations and Practices in Asia and Oceania」（CHUOKEIZAI-SHA HOLDINGS, INC. September 2022）
  
  ● The Latest Labor Law in Southeast Asia and India ( CHUOKEIZAI-SHA HOLDINGS, INC. April 2021)
  
  ● IIJ Global Reach Column "Data Transfer Regulations and Data Localization in ASEAN Countries at the Forefront - Singapore Edition (July 2019）（https://www.iij.ad.jp/global/column/column112.html）
  
  ● Practicalities of Entering, Expanding, and Pulling Out of Laos: Investment, Labor Law, and Accounting and Taxation" (co-author)（DOBUNKAN SHUPPAN.CO.,LTD. May 2017）

  
  

  ● Chinese Business Dictionary, Editor-in-chief (Chuo-Keizai, June 2013)
  
  ● SMBC China Monthly (monthly contributions to the mail magazine) (Mitsui Sumitomo Bank, January 2009 to June 2012)
  
  ● Consideration of Problems Arising from Guangdong's Manufacturing Model Change (Japanese Institute of International Business Law, October / December 2010)
  
  ● Analysis of the reason behind an increasing number of strikes and potential measures that could be taken (co-author) (Japanese Institute of International Business Law, October / November 2010)
  
  ● China Business Handbook - withdrawing operations of foreign investment companies (SMBC Consulting, October 2009)
  
  ● China Business Handbook - labour management in China (SMBC Consulting, July 2009)
  
  ● SMBC Shanghai Report (contributions to monthly mail magazine) (Mitsui Sumitomo Bank, April - December 2012)
  
  ● Amendments to Foreign Investment Catalogue for Guidance (co-author) (Japan-China Economic Journal, February 2008)

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

• ● Data Privacy Review and Prep - Review of 2023 and Outlook for 2024 - "Data Protection Laws in Southeast Asia"(online, co-hosted, January 2024)
  ● The Future Impact of the GDPR on Data Protection Laws in Thailand and Singapore - Singapore Edition" (online, co-hosted, September 2023)
  ● Lecture on commemorating the publication of "Q&A: Personal Data Protection Regulations and Practices in Asia and Oceania" (online, hosted by CHUOKEIZAI-SHA HOLDINGS, INC, February 2023)
  ● Practice of Personal Information Protection Law in Asia (online, hosted by The Global Alliance for Sustainable Supply Chain, January 2023)
  ●Singapore Privacy Personal Information Protection Act and its Security Measures (Singapore, co-hosted, September 2018, January 2021, March 2021, and December 2022)
  ● Privacy Personal Data Protection Legislation in ASEAN - Recent Developments in Privacy Law and Data Localization (Tokyo, hosted by the Japan-ASEAN Centre, December 2019)
  ● Privacy Laws in Asia with a Focus on Singapore" (Lecturer at externally sponsored study group, April 2019)
  ● Seminar on Personal Information Protection in Europe, Japan and ASEAN(hosted by Japan Management Association, March 2019)
  ● It's Not Too Late! Singapore Personal Information Protection Act Measures and its Security Measures ( co-hosted, September 2018)
  ● The Singapore Personal Information Protection Act "Now" and its Security Measures" (co-hosted, February 2017, April 2017, June 2018)
  ● Latest Operation of ASEAN Arbitration (Lexis Nexis, November 2016）
  ● Revision of Consumer Interest Protection Law, Free Trade Experimental Section in Shanghai(as Lecture of outside workshop, February 2014)
  ● Legal and Tax works of Technology Transfer to China (Cast Law firm, in Tokyo and Osaka)
  ● Debt-collecting in China (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in China, February 2012)
  ● Structure of Company (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in China, December 2011)
  ● Essential Labor Knowledge for the GM of a Japanese Company (Cast Law firm, January 2010)