Professionals
Partner
Yoshihiro Sakano
- Admitted
- 2004, Japan
- Languages
- Japanese/English
Practices
- General Corporate
- M&A
- General Civil Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- License Agreement / Technology Transfer Agreement
- General Consultations on Personnel and Labor Matters
- Collective Bargaining
- Labor Litigation and Arbitration
- Cross-Border Transactions
- Crisis Management
- Corporate Criminal Matters / Government Investigations
- Compliance and Internal Control
- Whistle Blowing and Grievance
- Anti-Bribery & Corruption
- Antitrust and Competition
- E-commerce
- Manufacturing
- TMT
Professional Background / Education
Professional Background
- 1997-2003
- Toshiba Corporation (Legal Affairs Division)
- 2004-2015
- Nishimura & Asahi
- 2013
- Noerr LLP, Munich
- 2015 to Present
- City-Yuwa Partners
Education
- 1997
- Waseda University (LL.B.)
- 2004
- Legal Training and Research Institute
- 2013
- Queen Mary University of London (LL.M. in Competition Law)
- 2020
- Kobe University Graduate School of Law (Ph.D. in Law)
Professional Activities / Accolades
Member, Japan Association of Economic Law
Member, Japan Competition Law Forum
Member, Management Lawyers Council-Japan
International Competition Network (ICN) Non-Governmental Advisor
- Antitrust and Competition
- Advised on price cartel cases for to companies listed on the TSE Prime and TSE Standard.
- Advised companies listed on the TSE Prime and TSE Standard on the Anti-Monopoly Act, Subcontract Act, and Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations in business.
- M&A
- Advised TSE Prime-listed companies on M&A.
- Personal Data Protection
- Advised on personal data protection for TSE Prime-listed companies.
- General Consultations on Personnel and Labor Matters
- Advised on labor laws for TSE Prime-listed companies.
- TMT
- Advised on product safety and telecommunications for TSE Prime-listed companies, TSE Standard-listed companies, and foreign-affiliated IT companies.
- Anti-Bribery & Corruption
- Advised TSE Prime-listed companies on the prevention of bribery of foreign public officials.
- Corporate Criminal Matters / Government Investigations
- Advised TSE Standard-listed companies and foreign-affiliated IT companies on on-site inspections by administrative authorities.
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Articles“Japan’s antitrust enforcement from 2024 to 2025”Teruhisa Ishii Yoshihiro Sakano Hiroaki MatsunagaJuly 2025Practices : Antitrust and Competition
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BooksLegal 500 Country Comparative Guides 2025Teruhisa Ishii Yoshihiro Sakano Hiroaki MatsunagaApril 2025Practices : Crisis Management / Compliance Antitrust and Competition
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Articles“Japan: Concerns raised over the JFTC’s shift from enforcement to advocacy”Teruhisa Ishii Yoshihiro Sakano Hiroaki MatsunagaApril 2025Practices : Unfair Competition, Designs, Trademarks and Copyrights Antitrust and Competition
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Articles“Japan: Concerns raised over the JFTC’s shift from enforcement to advocacy”Teruhisa Ishii Yoshihiro Sakano Hiroaki MatsunagaSeptember 2024Practices : Unfair Competition, Designs, Trademarks and Copyrights Antitrust and Competition
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Articles“Japanese antitrust enforcement on foreign affiliated companies”Teruhisa Ishii Yoshihiro Sakano Hiroaki MatsunagaJuly 2024Practices : Unfair Competition, Designs, Trademarks and Copyrights Antitrust and Competition
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SeminarsICN Cartel Workshop 2024 “Green agreements vs Green Cartels: Where to draw the line?”Yoshihiro SakanoOctober 2, 2024 16:00 - 17:30Practices : Corporate Criminal Matters / Government Investigations Antitrust and Competition
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SeminarsICN Annual Conference“Promoting Competition through Effective Sanction”Yoshihiro SakanoMarch 23, 2018Practices : Antitrust and Competition
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SeminarsICN Cartel Workshop“Private enforcement – developments and challenges”Yoshihiro SakanoOctober 4, 2016Practices : Antitrust and Competition
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SeminarsICN Cartel Workshop“Making a leniency application: triggering factors and strategy”Yoshihiro SakanoOctober 3, 2016Practices : Antitrust and Competition
- City-Yuwa Partners and our lawyers are recommended in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024. （January 19, 2024）
- City-Yuwa Partners and our lawyers are recommended in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023. （January 11, 2023）
- The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 recommends City-Yuwa Partners in 10 areas and further recommends our 7 lawyers. （January 14, 2022）
- The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 has recommended City-Yuwa Partners in the 8 areas, and further recommended our 6 lawyers. （January 18, 2021）
- The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 has recommended City-Yuwa Partners in the 9 areas, and further recommended our 4 lawyers. （January 17, 2020）