Etsuko Hara is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, and her practice focuses on the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions and antitrust law.
Ms. Hara has extensive experience advising on inbound and outbound transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and cross border distribution, license and franchise agreements. 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 or 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 (LL.M.) and The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1998), and is admitted as a lawyer in Japan and New York. She teaches antitrust law at Hitotsubashi University School of Law.
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is a full-service law firm formed by the merger and consolidation of the practices of three leading Japanese law firms: Anderson Mori, which established its reputation as one of the largest and most established international law firms in Japan since its inception in the early 1950s; Tomotsune & Kimura, particularly known for its expertise in international finance transactions; and Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa, a premier international insolvency/restructuring and crisis-management firm.
Our combined firm provides an exceptionally powerful value proposition. Housing all of these synergistic practices under one roof, and further increasing the scale of our resources, we are well-positioned to: (1) better serve a wide client base; (2) provide even more prompt and accurate advice across a broader spectrum of legal issues; and (3) handle the largest transactions in Japan, including those which are cross-sectoral and extremely complex. Our combined expertise enables us to deliver advice on virtually all legal issues that may arise from a corporate transaction, including M&A, finance, capital markets, restructuring/insolvency, and litigation/arbitration. The majority of our lawyers are multi-lingual and experienced with communicating, drafting and negotiating across borders around the globe.
With a long tradition of serving the international business and legal communities, our superior expertise, coupled with our standing as one of the largest law firms in Japan, translates to not only high quality services but also time and cost efficiencies, which we share with our clients. Our main office is in Tokyo. We also maintain offices in Nagoya, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, and Bangkok, and operate a Jakarta Desk.
“Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Laws: A Primer for Japanese Companies” (Kinzai, 2013) (co-author) and the chapters of “Japan: Cartels” and “Japan: Merger Control” for the Asia Pacific Antitrust Review 2015 (Global Competition Review) (co-author).
